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Article: Encyclopedia Of Arab Women Filmmakers.(FILMMAKERS)(Book review)
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- Feminist Collections: A Quarterly of Women's Studies Resources
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- March 22, 2008
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Rebecca Hillauer, ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ARAB WOMEN FILMMAKERS. Trans. by Allison Brown, Deborah Cohen, & Nancy Joyce. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press, 2005. 484p. $39.95, ISBN 978-9774249433.
Reviewed by Diana King
Academic interest in global cinema outside of the United States and Western Europe has increased rapidly over the last few years, but the avail ability of substantive published works of reference, history, and criticism in English remains spotty at best. Rebecca Hillauer's Encyclopedia of Arab Women Filmmakers attempts to fill part of the gap by documenting the work of sixty-seven filmmakers associated primarily with nine ...