NOTE: Faculty, if you are interviewed and quoted by news media, or if your work has been cited, and you have an online link to the article or video, please let us know. Contact us at news@csusb.edu.
Academic journal Arab Studies Quarterly reviews documentary made by CSUSB professorArab Studies QuarterlyMay 2018
In the academic journal, Terri Ginsberg, an assistant professor of film and director of the film program at the American University in Cairo, reviewed the documentary “1948: Creation and Catastrophe,” which was co-produced and co-directed by Ahlam Muhtaseb, CSUSB professor of communication studies, with Andy Trimlett.
The film, which highlights the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, was made over 10 years and explores the events of 1948, the most pivotal year in one of the most controversial conflicts in the world.
Wrote Ginsberg: “… 1948 makes its undeniable intervention into the contemporary mediascape as an asymmetrical balancing of Zionism’s unbalanced symmetry between Palestinian and Jewish suffering, and on this basis the film represents a landmark in the cinematic treatment of the topic.”
Read the complete article at “Film review of ‘1948: Creation and Catastrophe.’”
This news clip and others may be found at “In the Headlines” on the Inside CSUSB website.