The Representation of Social Crisis in Contemporary Arabic Film
Special Session Panel Proposal for the 2007 MLA Convention
Presented by Ken Seigneurie
Lebanese American University - Beirut
Whether the object of direct representation in films such as The Yacoubian
Building or diffracted through popular ideology in others such as Dunia,
social issues find their way into Arabic-language films from Iraq to
Morocco. This panel proposes to look at films produced within the past
twenty years as so many windows (clear, broken, smoked or grimy) onto
social and political crises. Two-page abstracts by 15 March treating any of