Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class, and Nation
VIOLA SHAFIKstudied cinema in Hamburg and is a freelance film scholar and filmmaker. She has directed several documentaries, includingThe Lemon Tree(1993), which was awarded the prize for best documentary short at the Images of the Arab World Festival in 1993. She is also the author ofArabCinema: History and Cultural Identity(AUC Press, 1998; revised edition, 2007).