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[Yaqub's] message of maintaining artistic archives at risk of marginalization (or worse, total extinction) should resonate with anyone who appreciates the crucial interconnections between film and cultural identity. * Film International Online * Yaqub's book helps to recover a period of revolutionary activity whose hopes and promises have been left unfulfilled. * Film Quarterly *

Yaqub's book helps to recover a period of revolutionary activity whose hopes and promises have been left unfulfilled. * Film Quarterly *

[An] indispensable volume...Yaqub has gone to the painstaking effort to piece together what remains of these films, whether physically or simply from the memories of those who made them. Indeed, at a certain point it becomes difficult to see the author's effort to preserve an aspect of ever-threatened Palestinian history as different, or any less revolutionary, than the efforts of the film-makers she discusses in her book. * Al Jadid * Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution delves into the political dynamics of Palestinian film...One striking aspect of Yaqub's study is the importance of collective memory and oral history in the Palestinian context. * The New Arab * [An] important, comprehensive study...[Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution] opens a window to a luminous period of revolutionary production that, until now, has been largely inaccessible to English-language readers, and invites reengagement with these vital, visionary works in a moment where inspiration is urgently needed. * International Journal of Middle East Studies * Yaqub's is the first book devoted to this topic, certainly a reason in itself to welcome her study into the field of studies on Palestinian film...Yaqub does not exaggerate the quality of these films; nonetheless she sees past their limitations, exacerbated by the disappearance of so many of them, to their artistic and experimental merits and, most importantly, parses out their lasting importance for Palestinians today and for the present-day filmmakers who draw on them and draw inspiration from them. * Critical Inquiry * [Yaqub's] message of maintaining artistic archives at risk of marginalization (or worse, total extinction) should resonate with anyone who appreciates the crucial interconnections between film and cultural identity. * Film International Online * Yaqub's book helps to recover a period of revolutionary activity whose hopes and promises have been left unfulfilled. * Film Quarterly *

Yaqub's is the first book devoted to this topic, certainly a reason in itself to welcome her study into the field of studies on Palestinian film...Yaqub does not exaggerate the quality of these films; nonetheless she sees past their limitations, exacerbated by the disappearance of so many of them, to their artistic and experimental merits and, most importantly, parses out their lasting importance for Palestinians today and for the present-day filmmakers who draw on them and draw inspiration from them. * Critical Inquiry * [Yaqub's] message of maintaining artistic archives at risk of marginalization (or worse, total extinction) should resonate with anyone who appreciates the crucial interconnections between film and cultural identity. * Film International Online * Yaqub's book helps to recover a period of revolutionary activity whose hopes and promises have been left unfulfilled. * Film Quarterly *

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Nadia Yaqub is an associate professor of Arabic language and culture and chair of the Department of Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She coedited Bad Girls of the Arab World with Rula Quawas.

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