Ifdal El Saket
Assistant Director Arabic and Islamic Studies / Guest
- Name
- Dr. I. El Saket Ph.D.
- Telephone
- +31 71 527 2727
- i.el.saket@nvic.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0003-3403-2599
Ifdal El Saket is assistant-director (Arabic and Islamic Studies and Middle East Studies) at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo. Ifdal received her PhD in history and Arabic and Islamic Studies from the University of Sydney, Australia, where she worked on the history of cinema in Egypt, 1897-1952. She continues to work on histories of the cinema in Egypt, focusing on audiences, the star system, and off-screen dynamics of film production and exhibition. Her work has appeared in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and Arab Studies Journal. She has recently edited (alongside Philippe Meers (UAntwerp) and Daniel Biltereyst (UGent) the volume Cinema in the Arab World: New Histories, New Approaches (Bloomsbury Academic, 2023).
Assistant Director Arabic and Islamic Studies / Guest
- Bestuursbureau
- Strategie en Academische Zaken
- Nederlands Vlaams Instituut in Cairo
- El Saket I. (2024), Stars in arms: Egypt’s movie stars and the free officers. In: Hayon K.D. & Van de Peer S. (Eds.), Transnational Arab stardom: glamour, performance and politics. London: Bloomsbury Publishing.
- El Saket I. (2024), The city and the jungle: Africa and blackness in the Egyptian interwar cinematic imagination. In: Amar P. (Ed.), Cairo securitized. Cairo: The American University in Cairo Press.
- El Saket I. (2023), Counting kisses at the movies: the screen kiss and the cinematic experience in Egypt, International Journal of Middle East Studies 55(2): 211-237.
- El Saket I., Biltereyst D. & Meers P. (Eds.) (2023), Cinema in the Arab world: new histories, new approaches. World Cinema. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
- El Saket I. (2023), Cinema-going in Egypt in the Long-60s: oral histories of pleasure and leisure. In: El Saket I., Biltereyst D. & Meers P. (Eds.), Cinema in the Arab world: new histories, new approaches. London: Bloomsbury Academic. 150-175.
- El Saket I. (2023) The politics of stardom, entertainment and industry: new studies in Egyptian cinema history. Review of: Hanan Hammad | Deborah A. Starr (2022 | 2020), Unknown past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim star of Egypt | Togo Mizrahi and the making of Egyptian cinema. Redwood City | Berkeley: Stanford University Press | University of California Press & Raphael Cormack (2021), Midnight in Cairo: the divas of Egypt's roaring ’20s. New York: New York: W. W. Norton & Company. International Journal of Middle East Studies 55(4): 795-801.
- El Saket I. (2019), Sound and desire: race, gender, and insult in Egypt's first talkie, International Journal of Middle East Studies 51(2): 203-232.
- El Saket I. (2017), Jungle in films in Egypt: race, anti-blackness, and empire, Arab Studies Journal 25(2): 9-33.
- El Saket I. (2015), The star of the east: Umm Kulthum and Egyptian cinema. In: Bandhauer A. & Royer M. (Eds.), Stars in World Cinema: Screen Icons and Star Systems across Cultures. London: Bloomsbury Publishing. 36-50.