Helga Tawil-Souri
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Helga Tawil-Souri (Arabic: هلجا طويل-الصوري) (born in Kuwait in 1969) is a Palestinian-American Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, an associate professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies and a Director of Graduate Studies New York University Steinhardt. Her work focuses on technology, media, culture, territory and politics, with a focus on Palestine and Israel.[1]
She has also produced a number of documentary films.[2][3] Tawil-Souri
Tawil-Souri holds a BA from McGill University (1992), an MA from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication (1994), and a PhD from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder (2005).[4]
Career
Her documentary, "Not Going There, Don’t Belong Here", was completed in 2002 and filmed in November 2001 in various refugee camps in Lebanon. The film has aired on Free Speech TV, various public broadcasting channels in the U.S., at universities and film festivals in the U.S. and abroad.[3][5][6]
"i.so.chro.nism: [twenty-four hours in jabaa]" was filmed in the Palestinian West Bank village of Jabaa and completed in 2004. The filmmaker considers it an experimental documentary film that juxtaposes the sounds and images of war and violence with traditional culture, filmed in the West Bank during the Second Intifada.[7]
Articles
- Where is the Political in Cultural Studies? In Palestine, International Journal of Cultural Studies 16(1): 1–16, 2011.
- Colored Identity: The Politics and Materiality of ID Cards in Palestine/Israel, Social Text 107: 67–97, 2011.
- The Hi-Tech Enclosure of Gaza, In Mahrene Larudee (ed.), Gaza: Out of the Margins (30-52), 2011.
- Walking Nicosia, Imagining Jerusalem, Re-Public 4, 2010.
- Qalandia Checkpoint as Space and Non-Place, Space and Culture 14(1): 4-26, 2011.
- Towards a Palestinian Cultural Studies, Middle East Journal of Communication and Culture 2(2): 181–185, Fall 2009.
- New Palestinian Centers: An Ethnography of the ‘Checkpoint Economy', International Journal of Cultural Studies 12(3): 217–235, 2009.
- The Political Battlefield of Pro-Arab Videogames on Palestinian Streets, Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 27(3): 536–551, Fall 2007.
- Global and Local Forces for a Nation-State Yet to Be Born: The Paradoxes of Palestinian Television Policies, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 4(3): 4-25, September 2007.
- Marginalizing Palestinian Development: Lessons Against Peace, Development 49(2): 75–80, March 2006.
- Coming Into Being and Flowing Into Exile: History and Trends in Palestinian Film-Making, Nebula 2(2): 113–140, June 2005.
Documentary films
- i.so.chro.nism: [twenty-four hours in jabaa]
- Not Going There, Don't Belong Here
External links
References
- ^ Helga Tawil-Souri, NYU biography
- ^ "Helga Tawil-Souri - Faculty Profiles - NYU Steinhardt". NYU Steinhardt. Archived from the original on 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- ^ a b "Film maker Visits Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon". Voices of Palestine. Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). NYU Steinhardt. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
- ^ "Film screenings by Palestinian Student Association". Colorado State University. Archived from the original on 2010-08-05. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- ^ "6th Annual Arab Film Festival 2002". Artsopolis. Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- ^ "isochronism [twenty four hours in jabaa]". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
- McGill University alumni
- USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism alumni
- University of Colorado Boulder alumni
- New York University faculty
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Palestinian academics
- Palestinian film directors
- Palestinian women film directors
- American people of Palestinian descent
- Palestinian documentary film directors
- 21st-century Palestinian women writers
- 20th-century Palestinian women writers
- Women documentary filmmakers