Human sciences

In this dissertation, I investigate some of the different issues that filmmakers in North African national and diasporic cinemas focus on. I examine the representation of women in films produced in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia, in an effort to show the tools filmmakers use in o…

This dissertation aims to aid in re-thinking outdated conceptions of the narrowness of religious reasoning and of the inherently secular and immanent reasoning in the human sciences. It does so by undertaking a comparative, dialogical reading, grounded in Hans-Georg Gadamer's "d…