February 15, 2012

Cinema Arabiata, an Arab Film Blog

by mizna | in Mizna News

BY MOHANNAD GHAWANMEH

During the long wait between Twin Cities Arab Film Festival editions, where do you go to stay tuned in to the landscape of Arab film? Mizna is proud to present Cinema Arabiata, a new blog about Arab film by film enthusiast and past TCAFF curator, Mohannad Ghawanmeh. From Mohannad, “Cinema Arabiata aims to cover Arab cinema primarily, but not exclusively. Its ambition is to persuade my readers that cinema, including Arab cinema, has the demonstrated potential not only to inform and impact, but to profoundly move and inspire, to leave a lasting and indelible mark on the lives of it audiences. Cinema has helped shape me. I am better because of it. I invite you to celebrate it with me.”

The first entry is about “The Dupes” a film from 1972. The film is truly pan-Arabist: a Syrian state production based on the novella by the famed late Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani and directed by Egyptian Tawfiq Saleh.

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