AcknowledgementsFigures and tableList of ContributorsIntroduction, Ifdal Elsaket (Netherlands-Flemish Institute, Egypt), Daniel Biltereyst (Ghent University, Belgium) and Philippe Meers (University of Antwerp, Belgium)I Arab Cinema Histories: Distribution, Exhibition and Audiences1.Misr Abroad: Trading Egyptian Films in Colonial Maghreb, Morgan Corriou (University of Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis, France)2.“Le Roi du Cinéma”: Joseph Seibarras and North African Film Exhibition, 1925-1945, Eric Smoodin (University of California, Davis, USA)3.Access for the Axis: The Battle for Ideological Supremacy on Middle Eastern, North African, and Turkish Cinema Screens Between 1933-1945, Kajsa Philippa Niehusen and Ross Melnick (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA)4.Egyptian Women’s Empowerment and Early Cinema-Going, Mohannad Ghawanmeh (Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture, Philadelphia, USA)5.Anti-Colonial Masculinity, the Catholic Film Center and the Screening of Religious Difference in 1950s Egypt: The Multiple Lives of Husayn Sidqi's Night of Power, Rahma Bavelaar (University of Amsterdam, Netherlands)6.Bollywood Film Traffic: Shaping Routes for Hindi Films in the Arab World, 1954-2014, Némésis Srour (University of Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis, France)7.The Business of Cinemas in Ismailia with a Case Study of Ghweba Cinema: an interview with Abbas Ghweba and Tarek Ghweba, Asmaa Gharib (Musawah Global Movement, Malaysia) 8.Cinema-going in Egypt in the Long-60s: Oral Histories of Pleasure and Leisure, Ifdal Elsaket (Netherlands-Flemish Institute, Egypt)II Contemporary Issues of Circulation, Experience and Memory9.Film Distribution and Exhibition in Tunisia since 2011: Is Cinema-going Back in Style? Patricia Caillé (Université de Strasbourg, France)10.Gatekeepers or Facilitators? MAD Solutions and Other Film Distribution Networks for Arab Cinema, Stefanie Van de Peer (Queen Margaret University, UK)11.A New Online Cinema Audience? an interview on aflamuna with Jad Abi Khalil, Anaïs Farine (University Paris 8 Vincennes – Saint-Denis, France)12.A Taste for Cinema: Saudi Arabia’s Mediated Transitional Public Film Culture, Anne Ciecko (University of Massachusetts-Amherst, USA)13.The Multifunctional Cinema Exhibition Space at the Turn of the Century: a dialogue, Nour El Safoury (independent researcher, Egypt) and Jowe Harfouche (Network of Arab Alternative Screens (NAAS), Lebanon)14.The Visual Nation: Film, Soft Power and Egypt as a Community of Spectators, Iskandar Abdalla (Berlin Graduate School, Germany)NotesBibliographyIndex

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