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No other filmmaker in the history of Arab cinema has witnessed, contemplated, and consequently captured in his work so many facets of the changes and upheavals in the modern Arab world as Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine. Nor has any other Arab filmmaker's career as Chahine's, which stretched close to sixty years, attracted as much attention among western film critics and international film festival circuits. This book is particularly concerned with countering the tendency among western critics and scholars to universalize Chahine's work within a preconceived third worldist status. In this regard, this book repositions his cinema's relationship to its Arab environment, sources, and esthetics in the context of its propinquity with what is commonly referred to as the Arab National Project. More precisely, the book focuses on how Chahine's work has consistently contributed to the deconstruction of the myth of a homogenous Arab national identity, while simultaneously reconstructing the concept of the Arab nation and Arab national identity as heterogeneous and integral to a long-term modernist project for national self-determination as well as economic, social, and cultural renovation and progress.
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