Viola Shafik

Viola Shafik is a filmmaker, author and film scholar. She is the author of Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity,1998/2016 (AUC Press), Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class and Nation, AUC-Press, 2007 (AUC-Press), Resistance, Dissidence, Revolution. Documentary Film Aesthetics in the Middle East and North Africa (forthcoming Routledge) and the editor of Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa, 2022 (AUC Press). She directed several documentaries, among others The Lemon Tree/Shajarat al-laymun (1993), Planting of Girls/Mawsim zaraa al-banat (1999), Jannat `Ali-Ali im Paradies/My Name is not Ali (2011) and Arij – Scent of Revolution (2014). Current works in progress are Home Movie on Location.