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Publications by Irit Neidhardt

Revolutions - Anything Else? On the Becoming of Gawkish Images of a Multi-Voiced Region (German, pdf). In: Conflict Alt ESC. News from Baghdad, Beirut, Jaffa & Kairo. 2.-7.Nov. 2011, program brochure of Hebbel am Ufer Theatre Berlin. Reprint of abridged version in : inamo 68 | Winter 2011.

Signifiers of the Arab Spring - Films as Seismographes? In: goethe.de Sept. 2011 (German)

The Difficulty with Taboos. Reflections on the Moroccan Filmdays in Berlin. In: Qantara 30.9.2011, Arabic Version (5.10.2011)

Conformist Provocations. Remarks on Sherif Arafa's Terrorism and Kebab. In: Qantara 29.6.2011, Arabic version (Title, introduction and translations by qantara.de; original title: The Rebel, A Comedian)

Arab Film-Days: What has been Possible Already Before the Change. (English translation as pdf) Irit Neidhardt in an Interview with Regina Peper for the Media Info of Goethe Institute, Interview of the Month, June 2011. Link to German online-version. The original had to be shortened for reasons of space, full length version as pdf (English).

Independent Egyptian Film - Independent from What? Short version of curatorial text for the Arab Film Week "Before the Storm. Independent Arab Cinema." of Goethe Institute and Arsenal Berlin, 17.-22.6.2011 at Arsenal; full length verion (German only) in the catalogue of the film week.

Cinema Jenin and no Peace. (German) In: inamo 65 | spring 2011, pp. 63-66. Online in Linksnet (German)

Blunt Yearning and Political Intervention. On Arab Video Clips. In: CARGO. Film/Medien/Kultur. Webmagazin, April 2011 (German) .

Women and Representations of Women in Islam - Interview with Irit Neidhardt. In: Weblog International Women's Film Festival Dortmund | Cologne. (German, the questions were lightly changed after the answers were given)

Co-Producing the Memory. Cinema Production between Europe and the Middle East. In: Global Media Journal. German Edition. Vol. 1, No. 1, Spring 2011

Egyptian Cinema-Industry. A Brief Historical Overview. (pdf) In: Traces of Change in Egypt. A moderated program of short-films, trailers and video-letters by independent filmmakers from Egypt. Friday, February 18th, 4-6pm, Arsenal 2, Potsdamer Platz. Presskit, mec film, Berlin 2011.

Cosmos of Subcultures. On Ahmad Abdalla's new film Microphone and independent Egyptian cinema. In: Qantara.de 24.1.2011 (Title, introduction and translation by qantara.de, original title: A Microphone to Everyone! An Independent Cinema is Forming up in Egypt.)

Untold Stories. European Funding of Middle Eastern Films. In: WPCC vol. 7, issue 2, 'Ambiguities of Censorship. An International Perspective', (December 2010).

A New Take on an Old View of Palestine. On Julian Schnabel's Miral and images of a Palestinian burgeoisie. In: Qantara.de 2010 (Title, introduction and translation by qantara.de, original title: The Beautiful, the Good and a Few Scratches - Julian Schnabel's MIRAL)

Reinventing Palestine: The Cinema for Peace in Jenin (German only). In: inamo 63 | autumn 2010
online at Linksnet (German).

Ajami (film review, pdf) In: imano 62 | summer 2010 (German).

The Image of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Paper presented at Beirut Media Forum 2009. Mobilisation on Stage. The Image of the Real and the Verity of the Image.
Palestinan Cinema? In: Cinemateca Distrital (ed): Primera muestro de cine de Medio Oriente contemperaneo. / First Middel East Contemtporary Cinema Exhibition. Bogota/Columbia. Nov. 2009 (Spanish and English), published in German as Palästinensisches Kino? In: inamo 61 | spring 2010.

Beirut: Cinematic Portrait of the City. Curatorial text Cinematheque Bonn for the KairoBeirut programme 2009 (German).
Films Create Identity. In: Palästina Verstehen. Sympathie Magazin. Studienkreis für Tourismus und Entwicklung e.V. (ed.). Ammerland 2008.
A Journey through Israel in Moving Images. In: Israel Verstehen. Sympathie Magazin. Studienkreis für Tourismus und Entwicklung. e.V. (ed.), Ammerland 2007.
Where does God Intervene? Elia Suleiman's Divine Intervention. In: Margit Froehlich, Christian Schneider and Carsten Visarius. Projections of Fundamentalism. Reflexions and Counter-Images in Film. Marburg 2007 (German).
Documenting the Middle East. In: P.O.V. - A Danish Journal of Film Studies, No 22 - On Documentary Film. Aarhus 2006.
Michel Khleifi. And Michel Khleifi in Conversation with Irit Neidhardt. In: Verena Theissl and Volker Kull (ed.). Poets, Chronists, Rebells. Portraits of International Documentary Film-Makers. Marburg 2006 (German).
Hany Abu Assad. And Hany Abu Assad in Conversation with Irit Neidhardt. In: Verena Theissl and Volker Kull (ed.). Poets, Chronists, Rebells. Portraits of International Documentary Film-Makers. Marburg 2006 (German).
Palestinian Society as reflected in its Cinema. In: Rebecca Hillauer. Encylopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers. American University Press Cairo, 2005, pp 206-8.
Country of Production XY/Palestine, Aspect Ratio 48: 67. In: Palästina Journal, Berlin, Juli 2005 (German).
Jewish Day To Day Culture today – Traditions and Holidays In: Kinofenster, January 2004 (German).
Palestinian Women Films. In: Newsletter, Bücherfrauen (Hrsg.), 9/2004 (German).
Judaism as Exotism in Israeli Cinema? In: Themenheft 2004, Responsibility: me, you, we. Association of Christians and Jews. Bad Nauheim 2004 (German).
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and its Roots. In: Kinofenster, March 2003 (German).
Palestinian Films - From PLO towards Independance. In: Kinofenster, March 2003 (German).
Neidhardt, Irit (ed.): Living with the Conflict?! - Reports and Analyses by Leftists in Israel and Palestine. Muenster 2002. With Ella Shohat, Sobhi al-Zobaidi, Tanya Reinhard, Azza El-Hassan, et alt. (German).

Visions of Palestine: Palestinian Society Mirrored by its Films. DIAK Conference, January 2001(German).
How Cinema Reflects Oslo. Conference Marx-Engels-Fund Wuppertal, Okt 2001. Printed version in: Marx-Engels-Fund Wuppertal (ed). Israel, the Palestinians and the German Left, Wuppertal 2001 (German).
How much do Images Move? The Contribution of Cinema to the Compositin of Palestine. In: Klein, Uta and Dietrich Thraenhardt (ed.): Gewaltspirale ohne Ende? Konfliktstrukturen und Friedenschancen im Nahen Osten. Wochenschauverlag, 2002 (German).
Perceptions. Film, Dominant Culture and Others. In: Themenheft 2001 ...denn er ist wie du... . Bad Nauheim März 2001, Koordinierungsrat der Gesellschaften für Christlich-Jüdische Zusammenarbeit.
Bischof, Willi and Irit Neidhardt (ed.): We are the Good Ones. Antisemitism in Germany's Radical Left. Muenster, 2000, ISBN 3-89771-400-0 (German).
Palestine in Film. An Introduction to the Self-Concept and the History of Palestinian Cinema. In: Palästina-Journal III/2000. Berlin, Juni 2000 (German).
Sided Lights: (Post-)zionist Dreams on Celluloid. In: Film und Fernsehen III/IV. Berlin, 1999(German).
Sided Lights: Palestine on Celluloid. In: Film und Fernsehen III/IV. Berlin, 1999 (German).