Name: Mohannad Ghawanmeh

Recipient Year: 2017

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. Mohannad is a PhD candidate in Cinema and Media Studies in the University of California, Los Angeles. He is also a 2017/18 fellow in the American Research Center in Egypt. His dissertation investigates the political economy of silent cinema in Egypt, 1896–1932.

School Name: University of California, Los Angeles

Major: Media Studies

Sponsor: Dr. Jack Shaheen Memorial Scholarship

LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohannad-ghawanmeh-0003b46/