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Deborah Starr
Cornell University
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: 607-255-62
Fax: 607-255-6450
Department of Near Eastern Studies
Cornell University 415 White Hall
Ithaca NY 14853
United States
Discipline
Literature
Sub Areas
Arabic
Cinema/Film
Hebrew
Mediterranean Studies
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Egypt
Israel
Palestine
Specialties
Cosmopolitanism
Film Studies
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
Hebrew (advanced)
Education
PhD | 2000 | Comp Lit | U of Michigan
Abstracts
In Bed Together: Coexistence in Togo Mizrahi’s Alexandria Films The Courtesan-Queen as Critique of Royal Excess in Layla (1942) Togo Mizrahi, Agent of Exchange Just Before Oblivion: Melodrama in Representations of Egyptian Jewish Memory Kouka, Global Cinema, and Transnational Constructions of Race and Gender