Hazem Fahmy

Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies

Hazem Fahmy is a PhD student in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies. His doctoral research focuses on the relationship between World Cinema as a mode of production, circulation, and viewing, and national film industries in the Middle East, specifically Egypt’s. He is broadly interested in the relationship between fiction film, nationalism, and ideology. Related areas of interest include questions of film authorship, cinema and colonialism, remaking and adaptation, media representations of power, the politics of film festivals, and material analyses of genre and industrial production.