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Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt provides a comprehensive analysis of the evolution of the Egyptian cinema in its engagement with dominant socio-political forces; Islamic institutions, colonialism and the Cairene nationalist bourgeoisie. Heba Afara Abdelfattah's work is a much-needed contribution, richly researched and intellectually engaging.--Hanan Hammad, Texas Christian University Abdelfattah takes Arabic cinema studies in daring new directions, challenging - as do so many of the classic movies she covers - frozen critical framings of social class, faith, national identity and, above all, what it meant to be 'modern' in colonial Egypt. This book will compel us to re-view so many of our favourite films.--Joel Gordon, Revolutionary Melodrama Heba Abdelfattah's fascinating book shows how different interest groups, ranging from British colonizers to conservative religious scholars and progressive urban elites, tried to make the emerging Egyptian film industry work for them. This is a masterful analysis of how their interactions shaped the new media of cinema and its discourse on modernity and on Islam.--Frank Griffel, Yale University

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Dr. Heba Arafa Abdelfattah graduated from Georgetown University in the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies in 2017. Her research interests fall within the interdisciplinary area of humanities focusing on the philosophy of religion and the philosophy of art as articulated in Arabic and Islamic thought in all its expressions(from the 7th to the 21st centuries). She works with sacred scripture, literary texts, archival documents, films, and other forms of artistic and cultural production to understand creative experiences at the intersection of discourses of modernity and religious mores. Her articles appeared in such peer-reviewed journals as Religions, Review of Middle East Studies, International Journal of Communication, and the Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies (JIMS). Dr. Abdelfattah served as visiting assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology. She was also a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Sacred Music and a lecturer in the Department of Religious Studies at Yale University. She has been an assistant professor in the Division of Humanities at Grinnell College since 2022.

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