Malek Khouri
Biographic Data
| ID | 6644107 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Malek Khouri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Malek |
| FAMILY NAME | Khouri |
| SIGNATURE | KHOURI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Malek Khouri is a professor of film studies and director of the Film Program at the American University in Cairo. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Surrealist Nuance and Postcolonial Subjectivity
In its origins, surrealism transpired as a radical subversive culture within advanced capitalist societies in Europe during the first few decades of the twentieth century. In colonial and postcolonial societies, however, surrealism variously assumed a quintessence of a protracted struggle between, on the one hand, the old and neocolonial cultural hegemony and, on the other hand, the subversive resistance by the neocolonized, with all the paradoxi…
Identity and Difference
This chapter's description starts at the point when the government declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew, a measure which had not been enforced since the early days of the 1952 revolution when peaceful demonstrations turned into riots and violence. Almost seventy-nine people were killed, more than 214 injured, and thousands were sent to jail. Islamist-supported groups began to exert increasing influence among students and other margi…
The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema
This book presents an up-to-date study on Youssef Chahine's work. The methodological approach of the book, and more precisely the discussion of the theme of Arab national unity from a post-colonial point of view, emphasizes the ideological underpinnings of this Egyptian director's themes as well as his esthetics. The book focuses on the interaction between Chahine's personal and political preoccupations, his eclectic cinematic style, and his devo…
Memory and the Reconciliation of Diasporas
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs—the Iraqi Connection (2002), a film by the son of an Iraqi political exile living in Europe, was broadcast several times on prime-time television on the most popular Arab satellite television news channel, Al-Jazeera. As part of a budding new Arab cinema with an eye for accentuating a heterogeneous Arab identity, this émigré film was a turning point in its unequivocal focus on Jews as part of Arab national identity.…
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Identity and Difference
This chapter's description starts at the point when the government declared a state of emergency and imposed a curfew, a measure which had not been enforced since the early days of the 1952 revolution when peaceful demonstrations turned into riots and violence. Almost seventy-nine people were killed, more than 214 injured, and thousands were sent to jail. Islamist-supported groups began to exert increasing influence among students and other margi…
The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema
This book presents an up-to-date study on Youssef Chahine's work. The methodological approach of the book, and more precisely the discussion of the theme of Arab national unity from a post-colonial point of view, emphasizes the ideological underpinnings of this Egyptian director's themes as well as his esthetics. The book focuses on the interaction between Chahine's personal and political preoccupations, his eclectic cinematic style, and his devo…
Memory and the Reconciliation of Diasporas
Forget Baghdad: Jews and Arabs—the Iraqi Connection (2002), a film by the son of an Iraqi political exile living in Europe, was broadcast several times on prime-time television on the most popular Arab satellite television news channel, Al-Jazeera. As part of a budding new Arab cinema with an eye for accentuating a heterogeneous Arab identity, this émigré film was a turning point in its unequivocal focus on Jews as part of Arab national identity.…
Surrealist Nuance and Postcolonial Subjectivity
In its origins, surrealism transpired as a radical subversive culture within advanced capitalist societies in Europe during the first few decades of the twentieth century. In colonial and postcolonial societies, however, surrealism variously assumed a quintessence of a protracted struggle between, on the one hand, the old and neocolonial cultural hegemony and, on the other hand, the subversive resistance by the neocolonized, with all the paradoxi…
Aesthetics (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Art history (2 works)