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Stories of exotic desert landscapes, cutting-edge production
facilities, and lavish festivals often dominate narratives about
film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula. However, there is
a much longer and more complicated history that reflects
long-standing interconnections between the Persian Gulf, Arabian
Sea, and Indian Ocean. Just as these waters are fluid spaces, so
too is film and digital media between cultures in East Africa,
Europe, North Africa, South Asia, Southwest Asia, and Southeast
Asia. Reorienting the Middle East examines past and contemporary
aspects of film and deigital media in the Gulf that might not
otherwise be legible in dominant frameworks. Contributors consider
oil companies that brought film exhibition to this area in the
1930s, the first Indian film produced on the Arabian Peninsula in
the late 1970s, blackness in Iranian films, the role of Western
funding in reshaping stories, Dubai's emergence in global film
production, uses of online platforms for performance art, the
development of film festivals and cinemas, and short films made by
citizens and migrants that turn a lens on racism, sexism, national
identity, and other social issues rarely discussed publicly.
Reorienting the Middle East offers new methods to analyze the
oft-neglected littoral spaces between nation-states and regions and
to understand the role of film and digital media in shaping
questions between area studies and film/media studies. Readers will
find new pathways to rethink the limitations of dominant categories
and frameworks in both fields.
Stories of exotic desert landscapes, cutting-edge production
facilities, and lavish festivals often dominate narratives about
film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula. However, there is
a much longer and more complicated history that reflects
long-standing interconnections between the Persian Gulf, Arabian
Sea, and Indian Ocean. Just as these waters are fluid spaces, so
too is film and digital media between cultures in East Africa,
Europe, North Africa, South Asia, Southwest Asia, and Southeast
Asia. Reorienting the Middle East examines past and contemporary
aspects of film and deigital media in the Gulf that might not
otherwise be legible in dominant frameworks. Contributors consider
oil companies that brought film exhibition to this area in the
1930s, the first Indian film produced on the Arabian Peninsula in
the late 1970s, blackness in Iranian films, the role of Western
funding in reshaping stories, Dubai's emergence in global film
production, uses of online platforms for performance art, the
development of film festivals and cinemas, and short films made by
citizens and migrants that turn a lens on racism, sexism, national
identity, and other social issues rarely discussed publicly.
Reorienting the Middle East offers new methods to analyze the
oft-neglected littoral spaces between nation-states and regions and
to understand the role of film and digital media in shaping
questions between area studies and film/media studies. Readers will
find new pathways to rethink the limitations of dominant categories
and frameworks in both fields.
Contributors to this special issue explore world literatures of the
Indian Ocean as a site for studying mobile networks of capital and
labor as well as diasporic movements generated by European imperial
expansion and its aftermath. These circularities shape both
identities and the cultural interactions that arise from them and
that connect places and peoples. In doing so, the authors bring
Indian Ocean Studies into conversation with ongoing efforts to
globalize literary historiography.
Within some policy circles, at the heart of these conflicts lies a
fundamental incompatibility between different ethno-linguistic and
religious communities; it is held that these divisions impede any
form of political resolution or social cohesion. Yet, despite this
galvanised public focus on pluralism and 'minorities' within the
turbulent Middle East, there has been limited scholarship exploring
these tensions. Sites of Pluralism fills this significant gap,
going beyond a narrow focus on minority politics to examine the
larger canvas of community spheres in the Middle East. Through
eight case studies from esteemed experts in law, education,
history, architecture, anthropology and political science, this
multi-disciplinary volume offers a critical view of the Middle
East's diverse, pluralistic fabric: how it has evolved throughout
history; how it influences current political, economic and social
dynamics; and what possibilities it offers for the future.
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