Viola shafik biography

Viola Shafik is an Egyptian-German film theorist, curator, and filmmaker.
Viola Shafik was born in 1961 in Schönaich, Baden-Württemberg, Germany.
Born in 1961 in Schönaich near Stuttgart, Germany.

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Viola Shafik

Viola Shafik (anhören^ⓘ^/?; * 24. Juni1961 in Schönaich, Baden-Württemberg) ist eine deutsch-ägyptische Filmwissenschaftlerin, Kuratorin und Filmemacherin. Ihre Dissertation zum arabischen Film stellte Ende der 1990er Jahre die erste filmwissenschaftliche Darstellung der Filmproduktion und -rezeption in arabischsprachigen Ländern Nordafrikas und Westasiens in deutscher sowie danach in englischer Sprache dar und wurde auch in Ägypten verlegt. Shafik trat auch als Dokumentarfilmerin und Dozentin für Filmwissenschaft hervor und hat Filme für Festivals in Berlin, Venedig und arabischen Ländern kuratiert. Ihre Veröffentlichungen behandeln Aspekte wie die Darstellung von Menschen als „den Anderen“ in für Europäer fremden Kulturen, Genderrollen und das soziale Umfeld des Kinos in arabischen Ländern.

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Shafik wurde als Tochter einer ägyptischen Vaters und einer deutschen Mutter geboren und wuchs in Deutschland und Ägypten auf. Sie studierte Bildende Kunst an der Kunstakademie Stuttgart und Islamwissenschaften und F

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Biography:

Viola Shafik is an Egyptian-German freelance filmmaker, scholar and theorist. She studied Fine Arts in Stuttgart and Middle Eastern studies and German literature in Hamburg. She finished with a Ph.D. in 1994 which was published in 1998 by American University in Cairo Press. She went to American University in Cairo to teach and also at Züruch University. Additionally, Shafik served as the position of the Head of Studies of the Documentary Campus MENA program and was a Fellow at the Berlin Institute for Advanced Study. Shafik has also been involved in curating film festivals, translating German television and is a member of the selection committee of the World Cinema Fund at the Berlinale. She also was a member of the independent jury of Jordanian and Arab filmmakers at Jordan Film Fund.

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Non-Fiction Writer, Filmmaker, Scholar , Theorist

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed:

English

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Shafik, Viola 1961-

PERSONAL: Born 1961. Education: University of Hamburg, Ph.D.

ADDRESSES: Office—c/o Author Mail, American University in Cairo Press, 113 Sharia Kasr el Ainy, Cairo, Egypt.

CAREER: Filmmaker, researcher, and author. American University in Cairo, Cairo, Egypt, professor of film.

AWARDS, HONORS: FIMA Prize, Paris, for best Arab short film, 1993, for Shadjarat al-Laymun; Rockefeller fellow, 1996-97.

WRITINGS:

Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity, American University in Cairo Press (Cairo, Egypt), 1999.

SIDELIGHTS: Viola Shafik is a professor of film at the American University in Cairo and the author of the first English-language book to discuss both the content and form of Arabic film. Shafik researched her subject in the Arab world and in Germany in writing Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity. Shafik addresses the artistic, political, historical, and economic considerations that impact film in the Arab world. An Egypt Today reviewer called the book "a rich, multilayered (albeit academic) study" and felt that "the inclusion