Hazem Fahmy is a doctoral student in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies focusing on the circulation of imperialist and settler-colonial ideology in world cinema. More specifically, he is working towards a dissertation that comparatively analyzes the depiction, as well as extractive use, of desert landscapes in narrative film, focusing in particular on the contexts of Egypt, the United States, and occupied Palestine. His related areas of interest include questions of film authorship, cinema and colonialism, remaking and adaptation, media representations of power, the politics of film festivals, and material analyses of genre and industrial production. Before Columbia, Fahmy earned a dual-M.A. from the Center for Middle Eastern Studies and the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a B.A. from Wesleyan University.