History Hash Outs: The Call for a Socialist Cinema in 1960s Egypt

Join Tamara Maatouk, assistant professor of film studies, for a talk titled "The Call for a Socialist Cinema in 1960s Egypt."

Maatouk is a historian of the modern Middle East and North Africa with a focus on film as an art, industry and social practice. In her first book, Understanding the Public Sector in Egyptian Cinema: A State Venture (AUC Press, 2019, repr. 2023), she examined the emergence, expansion and eventual demise of the public film sector in Egypt. Her current research project, Filming Socialism, offers a conceptual history of Egyptian cinema under socialism and of Egypt’s socialist project through the lens of cinema. Her other projects include research on the potential of film as a main conveyor of public history, as well as the role and limitations of film as history.