The Middle East through Film

Description from DukeHub

Film as access into the region through a series of direct and poetic connections woven across films viewed, filmmakers featured, and lectures, discussions, and texts read. Using integration of course components and students' weekly responses, an understanding of the region is developed by way of inquiry into and rigorous engagement with cultural production. From feature length films to shorts, the breadth of the work we will engage with includes documentaries, dramas, and less traditional forms. Midterm paper, final project required in the form of one of three potential possibilities subject to approval of proposal: a paper, a talk, or a short film. Graduate-level assignments and projects.

Skills

• writingAI review: "Midterm paper"

AI-resilient: 0 of 5 0/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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