Viviane Saglier reviews Arab Modernism as World Cinema in the Review of Middle East Studies (published online by Cambridge University Press on 07 July 2021). “The book’s great strength lies in its theoretical and methodological proposition to rethink intellectual and cinematic genealogies beyond both the postcolonial paradigm of a Western, imperialist influence on Oriental thought and the fantasy of an Arab modernity completely detached from transnational conversations with the West.”

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