Raed (El) Rafei is a Lebanese scholar and filmmaker. He is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh, and a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Davis, for the academic year 2023-2024. Rafei holds a Ph.D. in Film and Digital Media from the University of California, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on queer cinema in the Arab region. Rafei’s films include Here I am … Here you are and 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle).
Discipline
Media Arts
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Queer/LGBT Studies
Theory
Geographic Areas of Interest
Lebanon
Syria
Egypt
Specialties
Expanded Documentaries
Queer Subjectivities In The Middle East
Modernity And Space In The Middle East
Languages
Arabic (native)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Education
PhD
| 2023
| Film & Digital Media
| The University of California, Santa Cruz
