Lina Khatib, "Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 1845111915 | PDF | pages: 255 | 0.7 mb

Lina Khatib examines the cinematic depictions of major political issues, from the Arab-Israeli conflict to the Gulf War, to Islamic fundamentalism, looking at films made in the US, in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria and Palestine. She explores cinema's role as a tool of nationalism in the US and the Arab world, and the challenges the Arab cinemas present to Hollywood's dominant representations of Middle Eastern politics.