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ABOUT
Rana Jarbou is a filmmaker and social documentarian. Her artistic and archival practice deals with social movements, gender, and graffiti in the Arabian Peninsula, to produce counter-narratives highlighting issues of censorship and the politics of space. She’s published essays in Arabic Graffiti, Walls of Freedom, and Street Art of Resistance, and exhibited her work in international and regional arts and culture exhibitions. She co-produced and filmed the BBC Arabic documentary, Kingdom’s Candidates, which documents women’s historic participation in the Saudi municipal elections in 2015, and her social documentary film Hajwalah (2015) screened in numerous intl’ film festivals. She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in UC Santa Cruz’s Film + Digital Media, and her research and practice interrogate and disrupt the temporality of Saudi Arabia's "regime of vision," by reviving repressed visions, social movements, and spatial histories.
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Recent Publications:
2018 |
"Know Your Enemy: the Saudi women's driving campaign from flyers to faxes to YouTube and hashtags" |
"The Resistance Passed Through Here: Arabic Graffiti of Resistance, Before and After the Arab Uprisings"
Discipline
Media Arts
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Gender/Women's Studies
Identity/Representation
Media
Urban Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Arabian Peninsula
Saudi Arabia
Specialties
Counter-narratives In Arab Visual Practices
Spatial Histories In The Modern Arabian Peninsula
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (advanced)
French (elementary)
Education
MA
| 2020
| Film and Digital Media
| UC Santa Cruz
MA
| 2015
| Social Documentation
| UC Santa Cruz
Abstracts
Al-Tih (The Wasteland) A counter-narrative of the history of spatialization in Saudi’s oil-rich Eastern Province
#IAmReal - Mediating Difference Between Amna and Sophia: Citizenship, Gender and Hyperreality in Saudi Arabia
