Khaldoun H. Shami | |
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Occupation | Academic |
Awards | Vice-Governor of Jakarta Award in Relief (Indonesia).
The National Seminar on Media Award in Documentary Film (Kuala Lumpur). The University of Jordan Excellence Award (Amman). |
Academic background | |
Education | Doctor of Philosophy |
Alma mater | University of East Anglia; Brunel University London |
Influences | Dziga Vertov, Michel Foucault, Georges Trabichi, Jean-Luc Godard |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Documentary Film, Alternative Radio |
Sub-discipline | Secularism, Minorities, Militarism |
Institutions | University of East Anglia |
Khaldoun H. Shami (in Syriac / Aramaic: ܟ̣ܠܕܘܢ ܫܐܡܝ)[1] is an academic and filmmaker. He is a lecturer and researcher in documentary film at University of East Anglia, Norwich.[2] His research interests include secularism, minorities and militarism. Shami's doctorate thesis represents one of the earliest studies on the treatment of secularism in Middle Eastern cinema and TV channels, where secularism is a controversial societal issue.[3] Shami is the director of the documentary film Secular | AaLaMaNi (2023), wherein a cohort of filmmakers from Lebanon, Tunisia, Palestine and Jordan expound upon their perspectives regarding a Middle Eastern secularism.[4]
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