Dareen Hussein is a PhD candidate in the department of History of Art whose research explores cinema, media, and visual culture from Africa, the Arab world, and their diasporas. Her work examines experimental and documentary cinema, feminist and anti-colonial media practices, and the political, cultural, and institutional histories of Third Worldist internationalism. Her dissertation, Women’s Cinema and the (Un)Making of Third World Film Cultures, traces how African and Arab women filmmakers shaped, negotiated, and contested the cultural and institutional formations of Third World cinema, attending to the networks and infrastructures through which their works were produced and circulated.