The Startling Rise of Women Filmmakers in the Islamic Republic

Hamid Naficy is Professor of Radio-Television-Film and the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University, and he is also an affiliate faculty in Art History. He is a leading authority in cultural studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial cinemas and media and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas. His Latest books are An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking and A Social History of Iranian Cinema, a 4-volume book, whose first two volumes have just been released.
This lecture will be followed by:

Shahla Haeri, “From Belqeis to Benazir: A Queen, A Sultan, and A Prime Minister Shahla”
Shahla Haeri is an Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology and the former director of Women’s Studies Program (2001-2010) at Boston University. She will be a Visiting Fellow at Georgetown University’s Center for International and Regional Studies in Doha, Qatar for 2011-2012. She is the author of Law of Desire: Temporary Marriage, Mut’a, in Iran (1989, 2006 4th pt.), and No Shame for the Sun: Lives of Professional Pakistani women (2002/2004), and a video documentary, “Mrs. President: Women and Political Leadership in Iran, 2002” (www.films.com).

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