Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content

The International Symposium on Media and the Middle East

  • Atakav, E. (Organiser)
  • Zahra Khosroshahi (Organiser)
  • Khaldoun H. Shami (Organiser)
  • Mondal, A. (Speaker)
  • Sadia Habib (Speaker)
  • Shaf Choudry (Speaker)

Activity: Participating in or organising an eventPublic lecture/debate/seminar

Description

*Symposium Program:
- Opening talk by Anshuman Mondal : “Fixity and Fluidity in the (Re-)production of Racial Stereotypes”
- “Riz Test” Workshop by Sadia Habib & Shaf Choudry: “Measuring the Portrayal of Muslims in Film and TV”
- Panel on Censorship, Constraints and the Taboo in Films
Chair: Emma Pett
Zahra Khosroshahi: Censorship and Global Politics in Iranian Cinema
Khaldoun Shami: Self-Censorship and Secularism in Middle Eastern Documentaries
Sami Yasin: The Depiction of Homosexual Characters in Egyptian Cinema
- Closing talk by Eylem Atakav: “Beyond Visual Stereotypes: Digital Storytelling and Public Engagement as Research Methods”
- Film Screening: About Elly (Farhadi 2009)

Organisers:School of Art, Media and American Studies (AMA)
Prof. Eylem Atakav
Dr. Zahra Khosroshahi
Dr. Khaldoun Shami

Earlham Hall
University of East Anglia
Norwich, NR4 7TJ
United Kingdom
Period27 Apr 2019
Event typeConference
LocationNorwich, United KingdomShow on map
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • Media
  • Middle East
  • Conference
  • Stereotype