The Palgrave Handbook of Arab Film and Media offers a rigorous, expansive account of a century of cinema and media across the Arab world, its diasporas, and transregional networks. Bridging the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, it examines film alongside television, streaming platforms, and digital media. Its contributions foreground the political histories that have shaped media production, including colonialism, settler colonialism, nationalism, authoritarianism, war, migration, and neoliberalism. It also situates Arab media within Global South networks in relation to Latin American, Asian, Indigenous, and diasporic cultures. Following a loose chronological structure, the Handbook examines national cinemas, genres, auteurs, transregional circulation, hybrid cinematic-televisual forms, changing audiences, and the transformations of media ecosystems across territorial and digital borders.

Samirah Alkassim is a film scholar, filmmaker, and series co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema.Her publications include co-authored book (with Nezar Andary) The Cinema of Muhammad Malas, contributions to the Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema , 2nd Edition, as well as chapters in Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice, Refocus: The Films of Jocelyne Saab, Gaza on Screen, Streaming Video in the Global South, and an anthology textbook Global Horror: Hybridity and Alterity in Transnational Horror Film, which she co-edited with Ziad El-Bayoumi Foty.