I am a film scholar specializing in MENA cinemas and genre studies, and an experimental documentary filmmaker. I have taught film studies and film/video production at a range of institutions of higher education in Singapore, Egypt, and the United States.
I am also co-creator and co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema. My publications include co-authored book The Cinema of Muhammad Malas (Palgrave, 2018), contributions to the Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema, 2nd Edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020), and chapters in Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice (Palgrave, 2020), Refocus: The Films of Jocelyne Saab (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), Gaza on Screen (Duke University Press, 2023), and an anthology “text book”, Global Horror: Hybridity and Alterity in Transnational Horror Film (Cognella Academic Publishing, 2022), which I co-edited. You can explore these and other writings on the Publications tab at top right of this page.
In the following pages you can learn more about my work as a filmmaker, scholar, and curator focusing on regional cinemas and film genre studies. My films are selectively available on the Films page of this website, embedded and linked to my Vimeo page and Youtube channel.
Samirah Alkassim 