Name: Mohannad Ghawanmeh

Recipient Type: Scholarship Recipient

Recipient Year: 2017

School Name: UCLA

Major: Media Studies

Description: Mohannad Ghawanmeh is a film scholar and cineaste. He has produced, acted in, curated for, written about, and lectured on film. His expertise is centered on Arab cinema, but thoroughly extends into silent cinema, non-fiction cinema, transnational cinema, religious cinema, and more. In 2020, Mohannad earned his PhD in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a 2017/18 fellow in the American Research Center in Egypt. His PhD dissertation investigated the political economy of silent cinema in Egypt, 1896–1932.

Sponsor: Dr. Jack Shaheen Memorial Scholarship