Chapter 1 Documentary Diplomacy and Audiovisual Modernization: A Cold War Genealogy of Arab Cinema during the 1950s through American Declassified Archives

Chapter 2 Making the Final Cut: Filmmaking and Complicating National Identity in Qatar and the GCC States

Chapter 3 Lebanese Cinema and the French Co-production System: The Postcard Strategy

Chapter 4 Amateur Filmmaking in Tunisia: A Political Film Culture Eliding Contradictions in National Cinema

Chapter 5 “Not-Yet” an Industry: The Temporalities of Contemporary Palestinian Cinema

Chapter 6 Mobilities of Cinematic Identity in the Western Sahara

Chapter 7 Amiralay and Sabbagh in the Post-cinematic Age

Chapter 8 Family Resemblance: An Anthropologist Looks at Moroccan Documentary

Chapter 9 Affective Alternatives to Sectarianism in Maroun Baghdadi’s Documentaries

Chapter 11 Exceptions to the Rule: The Mechanics of War and the Institution in Egyptian Cinema

Chapter 12 Teaching Egypt Cinematically