Norman Saadi Nikro
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248933 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Saadi Nikro |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman Saadi |
| FAMILY NAME | Nikro |
| SIGNATURE | NIKRO N S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Memory within and without the photographic frame
Wadad Halwani’s short documentary film, The Last Picture...While Crossing (2009), is in the main about the late Odette Salem, whose two children were disappeared in September 1985, during the civil war in Lebanon (1975-1990). This essay discusses how Halwani adapts photographs and previously made video footage to situate Salem as a site of memory. While the film constitutes a memorial practice to tell a story of Salem and her activist milieu, it …
Milieus of memory
The thematic of “place” has since the work of Pierre Nora accrued much conceptual currency in social and cultural memory studies. Nora had defined place as lieu, formal remants of a vanishing notion of memory as social practice. Suggesting an alternative notion of place as milieu, the discussion focuses on social memory as proliferations of present-pasts
Edward Said and AutoBioGraphy
Just four years before his death, in 1999, Edward Said published his memoir. Titled “Out of Place,” he had been working on the book since 1993, soon after he had been diagnosed with a terminal disease. Throughout his career, Said had always referenced his life experiences, particularly in his prefaces and introductions to his books. This essay discusses his relationship to autobiography, a relationship that began with his first book, “Joseph Conr…
The Social Life of Memory
Ya ‘Ayb al-Shoum
Many filmmakers and people working in film projects in Lebanon over the last two decades are interested in gathering and telling the stories of their parents’ generation, towards understanding and acting on their present social, cultural, and political circumstances. Where literary autobiographical fiction and memoir has tended to be produced by an older generation that lived through the violence of the civil war years (1975–1990), documentary fi…
On Being Lebanese in Australia
Memory within and without the photographic frame
Wadad Halwani’s short documentary film, The Last Picture...While Crossing (2009), is in the main about the late Odette Salem, whose two children were disappeared in September 1985, during the civil war in Lebanon (1975-1990). This essay discusses how Halwani adapts photographs and previously made video footage to situate Salem as a site of memory. While the film constitutes a memorial practice to tell a story of Salem and her activist milieu, it …
Ya ‘Ayb al-Shoum
Many filmmakers and people working in film projects in Lebanon over the last two decades are interested in gathering and telling the stories of their parents’ generation, towards understanding and acting on their present social, cultural, and political circumstances. Where literary autobiographical fiction and memoir has tended to be produced by an older generation that lived through the violence of the civil war years (1975–1990), documentary fi…
On Being Lebanese in Australia
Ya ‘Ayb al-Shoum
Many filmmakers and people working in film projects in Lebanon over the last two decades are interested in gathering and telling the stories of their parents’ generation, towards understanding and acting on their present social, cultural, and political circumstances. Where literary autobiographical fiction and memoir has tended to be produced by an older generation that lived through the violence of the civil war years (1975–1990), documentary fi…
The Social Life of Memory
Memory within and without the photographic frame
Wadad Halwani’s short documentary film, The Last Picture...While Crossing (2009), is in the main about the late Odette Salem, whose two children were disappeared in September 1985, during the civil war in Lebanon (1975-1990). This essay discusses how Halwani adapts photographs and previously made video footage to situate Salem as a site of memory. While the film constitutes a memorial practice to tell a story of Salem and her activist milieu, it …
Milieus of memory
The thematic of “place” has since the work of Pierre Nora accrued much conceptual currency in social and cultural memory studies. Nora had defined place as lieu, formal remants of a vanishing notion of memory as social practice. Suggesting an alternative notion of place as milieu, the discussion focuses on social memory as proliferations of present-pasts
Edward Said and AutoBioGraphy
Just four years before his death, in 1999, Edward Said published his memoir. Titled “Out of Place,” he had been working on the book since 1993, soon after he had been diagnosed with a terminal disease. Throughout his career, Said had always referenced his life experiences, particularly in his prefaces and introductions to his books. This essay discusses his relationship to autobiography, a relationship that began with his first book, “Joseph Conr…
Sociology (6 works) · History (5 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Cultural memory (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)