Occupation
Assistant Professor
Contact
Film and Video Studies - George Mason University
College of Visual & Performing Arts
Fairfax
VA
United States
ABOUT
Samirah is a filmmaker and film scholar, with published articles about experimental and independent film/video in the Arab world. Her films include experimental documentary Far From You about Egyptian singer Umm Kulthoum, among various other experimental films and installations. Her publications include the introduction to the English translation of Syrian film director Mohammad Malas’s book, The Dream – A Diary of a Film (American University in Cairo Press, 2016), about whom she also co-authored a book, The Cinema of Muhammad Malas: Visions of a Syrian Auteur (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2018). This book is among the first in a series on Arab Cinemas for which she is a co-editor. She has taught film studies and production in Singapore (Ngee Ann Polytechnic), Egypt (American University in Cairo), the San Francisco Bay Area (U.C. Berkeley and Sonoma State University), and Virginia (George Mason University), where she currently teaches as an Adjunct Associate Professor. She has an M.F.A. in Cinema from San Francisco State University and a B.A. in English Literature from Oberlin College.
Discipline
Media Arts
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Media
Middle East/Near East Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Maghreb
Mashreq
Palestine
The Levant
Specialties
Arab Cinema And Media Studies, Filmmaking In The A
Languages
English (native)
Arabic (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Education
MFA
| 1996
| Cinema
| San Francisco State University
BA
| 1989
| English Literature
| Oberlin College
Abstracts
“Dead auteurs and their legacies in the post-cinematic age”
Landscape, Erasure, and Representation as Agential in Palestinian Cinema
“Gaza and the Found Footage Film: Expanding Temporalities and Aesthetics”
Khadijeh Habashneh and Women’s Films in the Long 70s of the Revolution
