the paper looks at the use of Italian and Arabic in two films by Giovannesi and questions bilingualism as a model for understanding linguistic practice in a bi-national family
"Postcolonial Cinemas in Europe: Migration, Identity and Spatiality in
Film Genres", at the Netherlands Institute
for Advanced Studies (NIAS) in Wassenaar. This was a closed intensive workshop of specialists from Europe and the US on transnational/postcolonial cinema.