Event Details:

• Sharofat Arabova, State Tajikfilm Studio, "Poetics of Tajik Cinema"
• Kaveh Askari, Michigan State University, "Dandyism and the Circuits of Cinema in 1950s Tehran"
• Fakhri Haghani, Rutgers University, "The Politics of Culture and Identity"
• Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University, "Keeping it Real: Muslims Creating Muslim Cinema and Television"
• Imed Ben Labidi, Doha Institute for Graduate Studies, "Filming Conflicts: Arab/Muslim Films' Fragmentation and Post-Nationalist Narratives"
• Kristian Petersen, University of Nebraska-Omaha, "Muslim Movie Stars: The Celebrity Politics of Islam in Public"
• Sitara Thobani, Michigan State University, "Locating the Tawa'if Courtesan-Dancer in South Asian 'Muslim Cinemas'"

Additional film showings April 9, 10 and 11 at 7:30 pm in Wells Hall.