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  • Beirut

    Call for papers - Representation

    Locating the Lost Archive of Arab Cinema

    This special issue asks how our histories of Arab cinema might change if we tackle the problem of Arab cinema’s lost archive(s). From most of the films made in Lebanon prior to 1975 to the cinemas of Iraq, Yemen, Palestine, Sudan, and elsewhere, there are many reasons why films and their histories may have been lost to current memory. From structural and environmental issues and the lack of investment in proper storage facilities and maintenance.

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  • Beirut

    Call for papers - Asia

    Beirut - the comeback

    L’appel à propositions interroge la catastrophe et la reprise, nécessaire, de la tragique explosion du 4 août, à Beyrouth. La reprise s’oppose, par définition pour Søren Kierkegaard, à la pure répétition — impossible — du même. La reprise est recréation sous un autre visage, en assumant les aléas de la mémoire, ses failles, ses imprécisions. Reprendre Beyrouth, c’est déjà se trouver sur un terrain miné, à ramasser des éclats de visages, de sens, de chronologie rompue. Reprendre Beyrouth, c’est aussi la repriser, en suturer l’architecture, l’histoire, l’héritage, la sauver de sa propre béance. L'appel, interdisciplinaire, s'ouvre à l'image (photographie, caricature, bande dessinée, illustration, dessin, collage) et au textuel (textes en prose, poèmes, réflexions).

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  • Beirut

    Call for papers - Representation

    Narrative forms and co-production in Arab cinemas

    Norms, constraints, and margins of freedom

    Film industry in the Arab world remains generally underdeveloped. Arab countries still depend on international film support funds, mainly European. This puts Arab producers, scriptwriters and filmmakers in a subaltern position in relation to European producers and funders, whose expectations in terms of content as well as narrative and aesthetic forms end up strongly impacting the film creation process. On the other hand, margins of freedom and resistance can be created within this system. This edition of Regards aims at addressing the complex relation between Arab cinemas and international film support funds.

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  • Kuwait City

    Call for papers - Thought

    Pop Culture in the Arabian Peninsula

    Arabian Humanities No. 14 (Spring 2020)

    The literature on pop culture in the Arabian Peninsula is particularly thin. While a rich scholarship has analyzed oral culture and vernacular poetry, less ink was spilled on those forms of culture that use new media, from tape recording to mobile phone aps and from TV production to YouTube. This issue of Arabian Humanities seeks to fill that gap and to analyze pop culture in Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, and Kuwait. 

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  • Beirut

    Call for papers - Representation

    Narrative forms and co-production in Arab cinemas

    Norms, constraints, and margins of freedom

    Film industry in the Arab world remains generally underdeveloped. Arab countries still depend on international film support funds, mainly European. This puts Arab producers, scriptwriters and filmmakers in a subaltern position in relation to European producers and funders, whose expectations in terms of content and narrative forms end up strongly impacting the film creation process. On the other hand, margins of freedom and resistance can be created within this system. This conference aims at addressing the complex relation between Arab cinemas and international film support funds.

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  • Beirut

    Study days - Language

    Beyrouth, carrefour de la traduction

    Journée de réflexion organisée par l'Institut français du Proche-Orient, l'École de traducteurs et d'interprêtes de Beyrouth (ETIB - Université Saint-Joseph, Faculté des Lettres et des sciences humaines), l'Agence universitaire de la francophonie et la revue Transeuropéennes

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  • Aleppo

    Conference, symposium - History

    Les Arméniens dans le Bilâd al-Shâm : entre intégration et marginalisation (Xe-XVe siècle)

    L'Ifpo organise en collaboration avec l’Institut des études orientales de l’académie des sciences d’Arménie, l'Université d'Alep et l’Université Paul Valery - Montpellier III un colloque intitulé « Les Arméniens dans le Bilâd al-Shâm : entre intégration et marginalisation (Xe-XVe siècle) ». Il se tiendra à Alep, les 7 et 8 octobre 2009. Ce colloque international accueillera des chercheurs confirmés, tout en permettant à de jeunes doctorants spécialistes des études arméniennes et/ou arabes d’exposer et de confronter leurs points de vue et leurs analyses sur l’histoire du peuplement arménien dans le Proche-Orient, et plus particulièrement en Syrie, à l’époque médiévale. Pour la première fois, une manifestation scientifique de cette importance consacrée à l’histoire des Arméniens à l’époque médiévale se tiendra en Syrie.

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