Books
The Cinema of Muhammad Malas: Visions of a Syrian Auteur
“Much scholarship on Arab cinema has been confined to traditional film critical approaches that by and large ignore contemporary theory, which is longstanding within the discipline. … The Cinema of Muhammad Malas: Visions of a Syrian Auteur is a rare exception to this tendency, as it not only engages theory but rearticulates it to the history and knowledge of Arab culture. For this reason alone, this book deserves to be read and discussed as a model for future scholarship.” (Terri Ginsberg, Review of Middle East Studies, Vol. 54 (1), 2020)
Global Horror: Hybridity and Alterity in Transnational Horror Film
A new anthology textbook for global horror film classes (Cognella Academic Publishing, 2023). Composed of 14 chapters, each by a different author, this book offers scholars and students of horror film an opportunity to see the longer history of decolonial and indigenous contributions to the field.
Chapters
“Invoking the Shadow Archive” in anthology Streaming Video in the Global South, ed. Shakti Jaising and Hadi Gharabaghi (Bloomsbury, 2026)
“History and Memory in Filmic Landscapes” in Beyond the Frame from the 2023 Film Criticism Conference of the Film Commission of Saudi Arabia, 2024, p. 159-164
“Found Footage as Counter Ethnography: Scenes from the Occupation of Gaza and the Films of Basma Alsharif” in Gaza on Screen, edited by Nadia Yaqub (Duke University Press, 2023)
“Twilight Reflections in Single Frames and Short Sequences” in ReFocus: The Films of Jocelyne Saab (Edinburgh University Press, 2021)
“Amiralay and Sabbagh in the Post-cinematic Age” in Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice (Palgrave, 2020)
Contributing Author to Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema, 2nd Edition (Rowman & Littlefield, 2020)
Introduction to The Dream: A Diary of a Film by Mohamed Malas (American University in Cairo Press, 2016)
“A rare, intimate glimpse into the working methods of one of the most accomplished filmmakers from the Arab world.”―Nadia Yaqub, Review of Middle East Studies
Journal Articles
“Indie Blues: Alternative Cairo?” in Bidoun Magazine, Issue 11: Failure, 2007
“Cracking the Monolith: Film and Video Art in Cairo” in New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film, vol. 2, no. 1, 2004
Book and Film Reviews
“Ode to Gaza” review of Abdessalam Shehadeh’s 2008 film To My Father in This Week in Palestine, March 2024 issue.
Three Studies of Egyptian Cinema: Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Modernity from Real to Reel ed. by Nezar Alsayyad and Heba Safey Eldeen; The National Imaginarium: A History of Egyptian Filmmaking by Magdy Mounir El-Shammaa; and Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry by Chihab El Khachab. Review of Middle East Studies (2023), 1-9.
Review of Struggling to be Seen: The Travails of Palestinian Cinema by Anandi Ramamurthy and Paul Keleman. Journal of Palestine Studies, vol. 51, Issue 2, 2022
Review of The Palestinian Idea: Film, Media and the Radical Imagination by Greg Burris. Journal of Palestine Studies, XLIX/4/Summer/2020.
Review of Zombie Theory: A Reader ed. by Sarah Juliet Lauro. Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, vol. 30, no. 1, 2019
Film Review: “Documenting the Storied Narrative of Gaza” in Review of Middle East Studies, vol. 53, Issue 2, 2019
Book Series
Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema (series editor)
Samirah Alkassim 