
HOTAIT
RESEARCH
INTERESTS
Hotait academic work deals mostly with the intersections created by cinema, artistic production, nostalgia and pain in contemporary Arab world.
Hotait’s PhD dissertation on Lebanese contemporary cinema got the Humanities Research Award when it was presented.

WHAT: TALK
@ University Anahuac: On Gestures: the architecture of the invisible

WHAT: TALK
@ UNAM: On the evolution of aesthetics in Iranian Cinema

WHAT: SERIES OF TALKS
@ Museo Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City: Course on Lebanese cinema d’auteur

WHAT: TALK
@ University of Michigan: Identity and audiovisual creation in the Arab diaspora

WHAT: FILM CURATING
Audiovisual & Art Programmer for Semana Árabe México

WHAT: TALK
@ Unesco Headquarters in Mexico City: Conference on Arab cultural Heritage

WHAT: TALK
@ Foro Ciudad de México. Organized by Unesco: The Syrian shoes

WHAT: TALK
@ SOAS, University of London: On Arab cinema d’auteur

WHAT: TALK
@ NYU Abu Dhabi: Point of view in Documentary Film Production