Samhita Sunya is Assistant Professor of Cinema in the Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures at the University of Virginia. She is the author of Sirens of Modernity: World Cinema via Bombay (University of California Press, 2022) and guest co-editor of a “South by South/West Asia” special issue of Film History (2020).
Samhita Sunya
Contributions
Cinephilic Life-Writing in An Iraqi in Paris
Early in Samuel Shimon’s first-person autobiographical novel An Iraqi in Paris (‘Irāqī fī Bāris), the young author-narrator has left his hometown of Habbaniya, Iraq on the eve of Saddam Hussein’s military takeover of the country.