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Ifdal Elsaket Editor

Philippe Meers is Professor in Film and Media Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has published widely on historical and contemporary film cultures and audiences in journals including Screen and Media and Culture & Society. He is co-editor of Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies (2011), Audiences, Cinema and Modernity: New Perspectives on European Cinema History (2012), The Routledge Companion to New Cinema History (2019) and Memory Studies (2017). Daniel Biltereyst is Professor in Film and Media Studies at the Department of Communication Studies, Ghent University, Belgium. He is the co-editor of books including Explorations in New Cinema History (2011), Cinema, Audiences and Modernity (2012), Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship around the World (2013), Moralizing Cinema: Film, Catholicism and Power (2015), and The Routledge Companion to New Cinema Audiences (2019). Ifdal Elsaket is assistant-director of Arabic and Middle East Studies at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, Egypt. Her research on the cinema in Egypt has appeared in Arab Studies Journal and the International Journal of Middle East Studies. She is working on a manuscript about the cinema in Egypt from 1896-1952.