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SUMMARY:Women in Egyptian Cinema: Shifting Narratives\, Roles and Aesthet
 ics
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DESCRIPTION:Dr Dalia S Mostafa\,  University of Edinburgh/University of M
 anchester\nHost: Dr Ruth Abou Rached\n\nIn this seminar\, I aim to provi
 de a historical context for the influential role that women played in th
 e making of Egyptian cinema since the early decades of the 20th century.
  Egypt has the largest and oldest cinema industry in the Arab world\, an
  industry that came to be known as “Hollywood on the Nile”. From its ear
 ly beginnings\, women embraced this new artistic sphere in Egypt\, as fi
 lm producers\, directors\, actresses\, singers and dancers. The first Eg
 yptian feature film in the silent period\, Layla\, was produced by ‘Aziz
 a Amir in 1927\, who also played the leading role. Cairo and Alexandria 
 became hubs for the fledgling cinema industry that soon became part of w
 orld cinema.\n\nMy presentation will trace narratives and aesthetics dur
 ing the early period\, moving on to the post- 1952 revolution era and th
 e ongoing transformations in cinema and women’s involvement. I give cont
 exts to how the narratives and aesthetics by female cineastes shifted an
 d evolved\, closely intertwined with decisive political and economic eve
 nts in the country. Reflecting critically on this crucial history of the
  cinematic genre in Egypt\, I will provide concluding remarks on women’s
  presence in Egyptian cinema today.\n\nBIO: Dr Dalia Said Mostafa teache
 s in the department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at Edinburgh U
 niversity. She was Associate Professor in the Department of Middle Easte
 rn Studies at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (Qatar)\, and prior to that a
  Senior Lecturer in Arab Cultural Studies at the University of Mancheste
 r. Herrecent monographs are The Egyptian Military in Popular Culture: Co
 ntext and Critique (2017)\, and the co-author of The Egyptian Coffeehous
 e: Culture\, Politics and Urban Space (2020). Her latest publication in 
 the Arab Studies Journal is "Crime and Dystopia in Three Egyptian Novels
 : Dissecting Cityscapes and the Body as a Terrain for Political Critique
 ." (2025).\n\nPart of the AMES Research Seminar Series 2026
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LOCATION:A112\, Samuel Alexander Building\, Manchester
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