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URL:https://www.arabamerica.com/events/the-fluid-gulf-framing-multicultura
 l-heritage-through-film-2/
SUMMARY:The Fluid Gulf: Framing Multicultural Heritage Through Film
DESCRIPTION:Speakers\nKate Seelye\, Vice President for Arts and Culture and
  Communications\, Middle East Institute\nSamhita Sunya\, Associate Profess
 or of Cinema\, University of Virginia\nAlia Yunis\, Visiting Scholar\, AGS
 IW\nKristin Smith Diwan\, Senior Resident Scholar\, AGSIW (Moderator)\n\nS
 tories of desert landscapes\, cutting-edge production facilities\, and l
 avish festivals often dominate narratives about film and digital media on 
 the Arabian Peninsula. However\, the newly released anthology Reorienting 
 the Middle East: Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf\, Arabian S
 ea\, and Indian Ocean Meet  (Indiana University Press\, 2024) reveals a 
 more complicated history between the Gulf\, Arabian Sea\, and Indian Ocean
 . Just as these waters are fluid spaces\, so too is the flow of film and d
 igital media between Southwest and Southeast Asia\, South Asia\, North Afr
 ica\, East Africa\, and the United States. In this conversation\, Alia Yun
 is\, a co-editor of the volume and AGSIW visiting scholar\, and Samhita Su
 nya\, a professor at the University of Virginia\, will consider the role o
 f Hollywood\, Bollywood\, and Nollywood in past and current films made in 
 and about the Gulf\; the Western oil companies that introduced film to t
 he Gulf in the 1930s\; the first Gulf films produced on the Arabian Penins
 ula in the late 1960s\; Dubai’s emergence in global film production\; so
 cial media as a vehicle for filmmaking\; and citizen and migrant amateur f
 ilms that turn a lens on rarely discussed social issues.\n\nFollow the d
 iscussion on social media.
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