Islam
and the Image

Palestinian filmmaker, scholar and poet Sobhi al-Zobaidi examines the withheld image of the creator as a starting point for a century of Arab cinema. Drawing on a chapter from his forthcoming book, Islam, Palestine, Hashish and Sex: The Body in Arab Cinema, the lecture considers the prohibition on images, the arabesque, Salah Stétié’s 1966 essay on Last Year at Marienbad, Moustapha Akkad’s The Message and three Egyptian films about appetite, desire and thought. Film clips are shown throughout. Free and open to the public; online registration is available.