Gaza on Screen

Nadia Yaqub is Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill; author of Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee and Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution; and coeditor of Bad Girls of the Arab World.

Note on Transliteration xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction / Nadia Yaqub 1 1. Gaza Filmmaking in a Palestinian Context: A Gazan Filmmakers' Roundtable / Basma Alsharif, Azza El-Hassan, Mohamed Jabaly, Ahmed Mansour, Arab Nasser, Tarzan Nasser, and Abdelsalam Shehada (Editing and commentary by Nadia Yaqub with an introduction by Azza El-Hassan) 29 2. Gazan Cinema as an Infrastructure of Care / Viviane Saglier 50 3. Found Footage as Counter-ethnography: Scenes from the Occupation of Gaza and the Films of Basma Alsharif / Samirah Alkassim 71 4. Rendering Gaza Visible: The Visual Economy of the Nakba in Palestinian Films of the Oslo Period / Kamran Rastegar 92 5. So Close, So Far: Gaza in Israeli Cinema / Yaron Shemer 114 6. Attending to the Fugitive: Resistance Videos from Gaza / Nayrouz Abu Hatoum and Hadeel Assali 136 7. Sensory Politics of Return: Hearing Gaza under Siege / Shaira Vadasaria 157 8. How to Unsee Gaza: Israeli Media, State Violence, Palestinian Testimony / Rebecca L. Stein 172 9. The Elisions of Televised Solidarity in the 2024 Lebanese Broadcast for Gaza / Hatim El-Hibri 187 10. Seeing Palestine, Not Seeing Palestinians/ Gaza in the British PathE Lens / Shahd Abusalama 207 Afterword. Gaza Screened / Helga Tawil-Souri 231 Filmography 239 References 243 Contributors 265 Index 269

"Gaza on Screen is a groundbreaking text that considers Gaza filmmaking, cinema, and visual production. Its contributors include key Palestinian, especially Gazan, thinkers and artists. The collection offers original, deeply engaging, and often captivating conversations and analysis." - Frances S. Hasso, author of (Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine) "In many ways, this book opens up new paths. The emphasis on screens both large and small is innovative and bound to become more important as the Internet and the cloud provide opportunities for Gazans to break out of the blockade, at least in cyberspace. Above all, the book's contributors argue successfully for new visions of Gaza, ones not defined solely by images of destruction but instead offering steadfast hope, resilient humor, and a firm attachment to place." - Inez Hedges (Jump Cut)