ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the author's interviewing experience with Rasha Salti. Rasha Salti is a curator and writer. She has been an international programmer for the Toronto International Film Festival. From 2004 until 2010 she was the film programmer and creative director of ArteEast in New York. She collaborated with Ziad Antar on the exhibition and publication Beirut Bereft: The Architecture of the Forsaken and Map of the Derelict and edited the book Insights into Syrian Cinema: Essays and Conversations with Filmmakers. Salti lives in Beirut and works in New York, Paris, and Toronto. Rasha Salti narrates that she begins by identifying four important factors shaping contemporary production of film and media in the Middle East by all artists. The chapter presents argument by considering material conditions of production. The author's interviews with some Syrian women alternate with a variety of segments: landscape, art, family, and an interview with painter and icon conservator Elias Zayyat.
