Along The Trenches – A Journey Through Eastern Europe To Isfahan

In contemporary media cultures, media are part of the most important sites where collective
representations and narrations of a post‐migrant civic culture are (re‐)negotiated. At the
same time, they offer powerful resources and instruments for civic participation and collaboration

Stories of desert landscapes, cutting-edge production facilities, and lavish festivals often dominate narratives about film and digital media on the Arabian Peninsula. However, there is a more complicated history that reflects long-standing interconnections between the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean. Just as these waters are fluid spaces, so too is the flow of film and digital media between cultures in East Africa, Europe, North Africa, South Asia, Southwest Asia, and Southeast Asia.