Cinema Studies Faculty Members

Terri Ginsberg is an internationally recognized scholar of Arab, Palestinian, and German cinema.  She has taught film and media studies at colleges and universities in North America and the Middle East, most recently at Concordia University (in Montreal) as well as The American University in Cairo, where she was Director of the Film Program.  She has helped foster these and related areas of scholarly inquiry through active involvement in academic associations such as SCMS, NECS, IAMES, and MEMIC.  Her recent publications include the monographs Films of Arab Loutfi and Heiny Srour (2021) and Visualizing the Palestinian Struggle (2016), the co-edited collections Cinema of the Arab World (2020) and A Companion to German Cinema (2012), and the multi-authored volume Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema (2010/2020).  She is also co-editor of the scholarly book series Cinema and Media Cultures in the Middle East.  Her co-edited special issue of the Journal of Contemporary Iraq and the Arab World, “Interventions in Film,” was published in 2024, and her co-edited collection on the governmentalization of international film education is forthcoming in 2025.