Preliminary Selected Bibliography of Articles on Palestinian Cinema in Major Journals
Complied by Kamran Rastegar


Palestinian Cinema and the National Question. Cineaste, 1979. 9(3): p. 35.

Abdel Malek, K., The Rhetoric of Violence : Arab-Jewish Encounters in Contemporary Palestinian Literature and Film. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Abu Ghanimah, Hassan, Filasteen wa al-'Ayn al-Sinama'iyyah ("Palestine in the Cinematic Eye").  Damascus:  Union of Arab Writers, 1981. 

Abu-Lughod, Lila, et.al. "Dreams of a Nation: Reviews from a Palestinian Film Festival," American Anthropologist, March 2004, Vol. 106 (1), pp 150-160.


Alexander, L., "On the Right to Dream, Love and Be Free: an Interview with Michel Khleifi," Middle East Report, 1996. 26(4): p. 31-33.

Asfour, N., "The Politics of Arab Cinema: Middle Eastern Filmmakers Face Up to Their Reality. " Cineaste, 2000. 26(1): p. 46-48.

Assadi, G., "Upholding the Palestinian image in Israeli cinema: an interview with Mohammed Bakri," Cineaste, September 2004

Auty, C., "Palestine," Monthly Film Bulletin, 1982. XLIX(585): p. 240.

al-'Awdat, Hussein, al-Sinama wa al-Qadiyya al-Filastiniyyah ["Cinema and the Palestinian Issue"] Damascus:  al-Ahali Li al-Tabi'a wa al-Nashr wa al-Tawzi', 1987

Baecque, A.d., "Noce en Galilee," Cahiers du Cinema, 1987(401): p. 45-47.

Benedict, S., "Intervention Divine," Cahiers du Cinema, 2002(572): p. 18-19.

Bossˇno, C. and J. Roy, "Entretien avec Mustafa Abu Ali, Chef de l'Unite Cinema de l'O.L.P. " Image et Son, 1980(350): p. 89, 91-92.

Bourlond, A., "A Cinema of Nowhere: an Interview with Elia Suleiman," Journal of Palestine Studies, 2000. 29(2): p. 95-101.

Brooks, X. 'We have no film industry because we have no country.' The Guardian, London (UK): Apr 12, 2006. pg. 22.

Brumm, A. M., "Migration, Marginality, and Cultural Conflict in Recent Israeli and Palestinian Cinema," Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 1996. 23(2): p. 561-577.

Brumm, A. M., "Palestinian Film Week." New Outlook, 1992. 35(5): p. 33.

Bruyn, O.D., F. Garbarz, and Y. Tobin, "Elia Suleiman," Positif, 2002(500): p. 202-209.

Carter, M., "The Palestinian," Majority Report, 1978. 8(14): p. 5.

Causo, M., "Haifa," Cineforum, 1996. XXXVI(355): p. 27.

Chauvin, J.-S., "Etat du Cinema Palestinien," Cahiers du Cinema, 2002(572): p. 16-17.

Dodd, P., "Homelands," Sight & Sound, 1992. I (10): p. 18-21.

Downing, T., Palestine on Film, 1979, London: Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding.

El-Hassan, A., "When the Exiled Films Home," Framework, 2002. XLIII (2): p. 64-70.

Fareed, Samir, al-Sinama al-Filastiniyah fi al-Ard al-Muhtallah ("Palestinian Cinema in the Occupied Territory").  Cairo:  The Higher General Committee to Culture, Horizons of Cinema Series, Issue No. 3, 1997:  pages 81 forward.

Fusco, C., "Allegories of Palestine: an Interview with Michel Khleifi," Afterimage, 1988. 16: p. 14-16.

Gertz, N., "Space and Gender in the New Israeli and Palestinian Cinema," Prooftexts, 2002. 22(1 & 2): p. 553-579.

Gertz, N. and George Khleifi, Landscape in Mist: Space and Memory in Palestinian Cinema (Tel Aviv: Am Oved and the Open University). 2005.

Goodfellow, M., "Festival Report: A Palestinian Festival Collects Work by Directors Scattered Worldwide," Sight & Sound, May 2004, 14(5), pp. 4-6

Heijnen, W., "Palestina," Skrien, 1978(76-77): p. 52-53.

Hennebelle, Guy "Arab Cinema" MERIP Reports, No. 52. (Nov., 1976), pp. 4-12.

Hennebelle, Guy, "The National Question in Palestinian Cinema," Cineaste, 1979. 10(1): p. 32.

Ibrahim, Bashar al-Sinama al-Filastiniyyah fi al-Qarn al-'Ishriyn ("Palestinian Cinema in the Twentieth Century).  Damascus:  the National Organization for Cinema, the Syrian Ministry of Culture. 2001

Indiana, G., "Elia Suleiman, " Film Comment, 2003. 39(1): p. 28-32.
 
Joyard, O., "Dans l Oeil d Elia Suleiman le Nomade,
Cahiers du Cinema, 2002(572): p. 12-16.

Joyard, O., "Chimeres Humanitaires," Cahiers du Cinema, 2001(558): p. 16-17.

Katunun, A., Srazajuscijsja kinematograf (Notes on Palestinian documentary films). Iskusstvo Kino, 1979(11): p. 151-161.

Kelly, R. and S.F. Said, "Zero Gravity," Sight & Sound, 2003. XIII (1): p. 16-18, 42-43.

Taysir Khalaf, Dalil al-Film al-Filastini (1935-2000). ("Facts on Palestinian Film, 1935-2000) Doha: Arab Screen Independent Film Festival, 2001.

Layoun, M.N., "A Guest at the Wedding: Honor, Memory, and (National) Desire in Michel Khleifi's Wedding in Galilee," in Between Woman and Nation: Nationalisms, Transnational Feminisms, and the State, C. Kaplan, N. Alarcan, and M. Moallem, Eds. 1999, Duke UP: Durham, NC. p. 92-107.

Morice, J., "Intervention Divine," Beaux Arts Magazine, 2002 (221): p. 22.

Naficy, H., "Palestinian Film Letters," Critique, 1995(7): p. 53-61.

Nesselson, L., "Curfew" Variety, 1994. CCCLV(3): p. 41.

Ostria, V., "Sur Tous les Fronts," Cahiers du Cinema, 1996 (501): p. 10.

Passevant, C., "Le Mariage de Rana," Jeune Cinema, 2002(279): p. 63-65. 

Porton, Richard, "Notes from the Palestinian Diaspora: An Interview with Elia Suleiman, " Cineaste, 28, no. 3 (2003 Summer): p. 24-27

Rich, Ruby, "Divine Comedy: Elia Suleiman's Surreal Slapstick Fights Brutality with Imagination," San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 26, 2003

Rosen, M., "Wedding In Galilee," Cineaste, 1988. 16(4): p. 51.

Rubenstein, L., "We Are the Palestinian People," Cineaste, 1974. 6(3): p. 35.

Sabouraud, F., "Noce en Galilee," Cahiers du Cinema, 1987(397): p. 50.

Sabouraud, F. and S. Toubiana, "La Force du Faible," Cahiers du Cinema, 1987(401): p. iii.

Said, S.F., "Zero Gravity," Sight & Sound, 2003. 13(1): p. 16-20.

Shamit, Walid and Guy Hennebelle, Filastin fi al-Sinama, (Paris: al-Fajr, 1980),

Shlegel, S.J., "Film't kato or'zhie i sredstvo za samoutv' rzhdavane" (Report on the 3rd International Palestinian film festival, held in Baghdad 18-25 March 1978). Kinoizkustvo, 1978. XXXIII(7): p. 68-70.

Shmeit, Walid and Guy Hennebelle's Filasteen fi al-Sinama ("Palestine and Cinema"). Beirut and Paris: al-Fajr, 1980. 

Shohat, E., "Anomalies of the National: Representing Israel/Palestine," Wide Angle, 1989. XI (3): p. 33-41.

Shohat, E., "The Palestinian Wave In Recent Israeli Cinema," Cineaste, 1987. 15(3): p. 10.

Shohat, Ella, et. al.  "Review Essays on 'Wedding in Galilee'" Middle East Report, No. 154, (Sep. - Oct., 1988), pp. 44-46.

Strauss, F.,  "Cinema Palestinien: le Processus de Creation," Cahiers du Cinema, 1997(514): p. 54 58.

Suleiman, E. and H. Frappat, "Illusions Necessaires," Cahiers du Cinema, 2001(560): p. 54-56.

Suleiman, E. "A Cinema of Nowhere", Journal of Palestine Studies Vol. 29, No. 2 (Winter, 2000), pp. 95-101

Taubin, A., "Discovery: Annemarie Jacir," Film Comment, January/February 2004. p. 20-21

Souri, H., "Film & Book Reviews : like twenty impossibles," Visual Anthropology Review Vol. 21, No. 1 & 2, (Spring/Fall 2005), pp. 164-166.

White, A., "Wedding in Galilee." Film Comment, 1988. 24: p. 57-58.