Foreword Iftikhar Dadi
Preface Ali Nobil Ahmad
1. Introduction: Is There a Muslim World? Ali Nobil Ahmad
2. Paradise Delayed: With Hany Abu-Assad in Palestine Hamid Dabashi
3. Two Theses on the Afghan Woman: Samira and Hana Makhmalbaf Filming Agheleh Farahmand Haim Bresheeth
4. From Resistance and Bearing Witness to the Power of the Fantastical: Icons and Symbols in Palestinian Poetry and Cinema Rasha Salti
5. Between Socialism and Sufism: Islam in the Films of Ousmane Sembène and Djibril Diop Mambéty David Murphy
6. The Poetic Vision of Nacer Khemir Roy Armes
7. ‘Framed Patterns of Infinity’: Takva, a Mortal Individual’s Fight for Becoming-Imperceptible Serazer Pekerman
8. Women in Turkish Cinema: Their Presence and Absence as Images and as Image-Makers Gönül Dönmez-Colin
9. Innovation and Tradition in Indonesian Cinema David Hanan
10. I am Crazy about the Lord: The Muslim Devotional Genre in Hindi Film Rachel Dwyer
11. Cut-Pieces as Stag Film: Bangladeshi Pornography in Action Cinema Lotte Hoek
12. From Zinda Laash to Zibahkhana: Violence and Horror in Pakistani Cinema Ali Khan and Ali Nobil Ahmad
Biography
Ali Nobil Ahmad is a Fellow at the Zentrum Moderner Orient in Berlin, Germany, and Assistant Professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, Pakistan. He is a former editorial board member of the journal Third Text. In 2011, he co-curated Winds of Change, a programme of film screenings and talks about cinema and the Arab Spring at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, UK.
