Suzi Mirgani

Books

• Mirgani, Suzi. Target Markets: International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall. Germany: Transcript Press, 2017.
  

Articles

• Mirghani, Suzi. “Searching for Sudan in Egypt: Displacement Filmmaking on the Set of Cotton Queen.” Transition: The Magazine of Africa and the Diaspora T138 Sudan (2025), https://transitionmagazine.fas.harvard.edu/searching-for-sudan-in-egypt-displacement-filmmaking-on-the-set-of-cotton-queen.

• Zahra Babar, Karine Walther, Trish Kahle, Suzi Mirgani, Misba Bhatti, Nadya Sbaiti, and Noha Aboueldahab, “Digitizing the Experiences of Migrant Labour in Qatar,” Labour History 129 (2025): 169–187.

Book Chapters

• Mirgani, Suzi. “One Hundred Years of Longing: A Story of Sudanese Cinema,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Arab Film and Media, ed. Samirah Alkassim (forthcoming).
• Mirgani, Suzi, and Maysaa Almumin. “The Gulf Female Gaze: Women Filmmakers and the Creative Representation of Sociopolitical Issues in the GCC States,” in Routledge Handbook on Arab Cinema, ed. Noha Mellor (Routledge, 2024).

• Mirgani, Suzi. “Peeking behind the Curtain: Gulf Filmmakers Imagine the Lives of Female Migrant Domestic Workers in the Arabian Peninsula,” in Reorienting the Middle East: Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean Meet, eds. Dale Hudson and Alia Yunis (Indiana: Indiana University Press, 2023).

• Mirgani, Suzi. “An Overview of Informal Politics in the Middle East.” In Informal Politics in the Middle East, edited by Suzi Mirgani. Hurst, 2020.
• Mirgani, Suzi. “Oil for Art’s Sake: Art and Culture in the GCC.” In Routledge Handbook of Persian Gulf Politics, edited by Mehran Kamrava. Routledge, 2020.
• Mirgani, Suzi. “Making the Final Cut: Filmmaking and Complicating National Identity in Qatar and the GCC States.” In Cinema of the Arab World: Contemporary Directions in Theory and Practice, edited by Terri Ginsberg and Chris Lippard, 45-70. Palgrave Macmillan, 2020.
• Mirgani, Suzi. “Collection of photographs.” In The Gulf Crisis: The View from Qatar, edited by Rory Miller, 79-86. Doha, Qatar: Hamad Bin Khalifa University Press, 2018.
• Mirgani, Suzi. “Introduction: Art and Cultural Production in the GCC,” in Art and Cultural Production in the Gulf Cooperation Council, ed. Suzi Mirgani (London: Routledge, 2018), 1–11.

• Mirgani, Suzi. “Domesticating Foreign Intellectual Property Laws in the Digital Age: Of Pirates and Qarsana in the GCC States,” in The Digital Middle East, ed. Mohamed Zayani (Oxford University Press, 2018).

• Mirgani, Suzi. “Spectacles of Terror: Media and the Cultural Production of Terrorism.” In Media in the Middle East: Activism, Politics, and Culture, eds. Nele Lenze, Charlotte Schriwer, Zubaidah Abdul Jalil, 107–142 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).

• Mirgani, Suzi. “The State of Arab Media in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings,” in Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings, ed. Mohamed Zayani and Suzi Mirgani (Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 1–22.

• Mirgani, Suzi. Nomad Woman Got No Home to Go to,” in Selves at Home, Selves in Exile: Stories of Emplacement and Displacement, ed. Ayşe Lahur Kırtunç, Atilla Silkü, Kenneth W. Rose, and Murat Erdem. Izmir: Ege University Press, 2003.

Edited Books/Journal Special Issues

• Mirgani, Suzi, ed. Informal Politics in the Middle East. London: Hurst, 2020.
• Mirgani, Suzi, ed. Art and Cultural Production in the GCC (Routledge, 2018).
• Zayani, Mohamed, and Suzi Mirgani, eds. Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab Uprisings. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2016.
• Babar, Zahra, and Suzi Mirgani, eds. Food Security in the Middle East. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Films

• Cotton Queen (2025, Sudan, Germany, France, Palestine, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, 93 minutes).

• Kamala Ishag: States of Oneness (2022, United Kingdom, Sudan, Qatar, documentary, 7 minutes).

• Virtual Voice (2021, Sudan/Qatar, creative documentary, 7 minutes).

• Al-Sit (2020, Sudan/Qatar, fiction, 20 minutes).

• Caravan (2016, Sudan/Qatar, fiction, 4 minutes).

• Hind’s Dream (2014, Sudan/Qatar, fiction, 6 minutes).

Conference Presentations

• “Masterclass: Lessons on the Road to Venice,” Minimalen Short Film Convention, Trondheim, Norway, January 15, 2026.

• “Screening Sudan,” panel presentation at “Seeing Sudan: Politics Through Art,” Doha, Georgetown University in Qatar, September 20, 2025.

• “Art and Culture in the Gulf Cooperation Council,” lecture presented at the Chautauqua Institution, New York, August 14, 2025.

• “A Story of Sudanese Cinema: Over One Hundred Years of Longing,” paper presented at Modern Sudan Collective/Docomomo Sudan “Cinema Conversations,” online, January 25, 2025.

• “Filmmaking with Sudanese Refugees in Egypt,” talk delivered at the Arts in Transit conference, UNESCO and American University in Cairo, United Nations International Day of Migrants, online, December 18, 2024.

• “Artists at Risk: Filmmaking in Sudan,” presentation delivered at Salzburg Global Seminar, “On the Front Line: Artists at Risk, Artists Who Risk,” Salzburg, Austria, March 25-30, 2023.

• “GCC Film Funding, Festivals, and International Influence,” paper delivered at International Studies Association, April 6-11, 2021.

• “Souvenir Sovereignty,” paper delivered at LSE conference on “Heritage and National Identity Construction in the Gulf: Between State-building and Grassroots Initiatives,” London, UK, December 5–6, 2019.

• “Filmmaking as Civil Society in the Gulf Cooperation Council,” paper delivered at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) conference, New Orleans, US, November 14–17, 2019.

• “Souvenir Sovereignty,” paper delivered at LSE conference on “Heritage and National Identity Construction in the Gulf: Between State-building and Grassroots Initiatives,” London, UK, December 5–6, 2019.
• “Enter through the Gift Shop: Signifying a Modern National Identity through Qatar Museums’ Merchandise,” paper delivered at the Museums in Arabia Conference, London, UK, June 27, 2019.
• “Constructing a Contemporary Qatari National Identity through Qatar Museums’ Merchandise,” paper delivered at the 52nd Annual Middle East Studies Association (MESA) Conference, San Antonio, Texas, US, November 17, 2018.
• “Target Markets: International Terrorism Meets Global Capitalism in the Mall,” CIRS Focused Discussion lecture, Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University in Qatar, Doha, Qatar, April 5, 2017.
• “Communicating Change in the Gulf Cooperation States (GCC): Information Technologies and Social Transformation,” paper delivered at International Studies Association (ISA) Annual Convention, Baltimore, MD, USA, February 23, 2017.
• “Tweeting Terrorism: ICTs and Media Spectacles,” Media in the Contemporary Middle East International Conference, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, September 3, 2015.
• “Advancing Financial Education for Transnational Families,” Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, June 3, 2015.
• “Shop ‘til You Drop: A Mirroring of Global Capitalism and Global Terrorism,” paper delivered at International Studies Association Conference, February 17-21, 2015, New Orleans, LA, USA.
• “The Arab Uprisings and Mediated Resistance: Unofficial Cultural Production,” paper delivered at International Studies Association Conference, March 26-29, 2014, Toronto, Canada.
• “Digital ‘Piracy’ and the Politics of Diffusion: The Discourse of Internet Control and the Battle over Media Messages,” paper delivered at International Studies Association Conference, April 3-6, 2013, San Francisco, CA, USA.
• “Thus Spake Gaylord; Angels In Dire Straits,” paper delivered at “Inscriptions in the Sand” conference, Eastern Mediterranean University, May 12-13, 2005.
• “Aging Bull,” paper delivered at Inscriptions in the Sand conference, Eastern Mediterranean University, June 7-9, 2004.
• “Global Androgyny and Alternative Advertising,” paper delivered at Başkent University, Ankara, Turkey.
• “Shock-vertising and the Provocation of the Image,” paper delivered at the 2003 “Inscriptions in the Sand” conference, Eastern Mediterranean University.
• “Nomad Woman Got No Home to go to,” paper delivered at Ege University’s 7th International Cultural Studies Symposium, May 2002, Izmir, Turkey.