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Hamid Naficy was born on 1944 in Isfahan, Iran, is a Hamid Naficy is born filmmaker, writer, scholar. Discover Hamid Naficy's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 80 years old?
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Filmmaker, scholar of diaspora studies and media studies, professor, writer |
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80 years old |
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1944, 1944 |
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1944 |
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Isfahan, Iran |
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Iran
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Hamid Naficy Height, Weight & Measurements
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Hamid Naficy Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Hamid Naficy worth at the age of 80 years old? Hamid Naficy’s income source is mostly from being a successful Filmmaker. He is from Iran. We have estimated Hamid Naficy's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Hamid Naficy (born 1944) is an Iranian-born American filmmaker, writer, scholar, and educator.
He is the Hamad Bin Khalifa Al-Thani Professor in Communication at Northwestern University in the department of Radio/Film/Television, an affiliate faculty member in the Department of Art History, and a core member of the Middle East and North African Studies Program.
His work focuses on the cultural studies of diaspora, exile, and postcolonial cinemas and media, and of Iranian and Middle Eastern cinemas.
He has written on theories of exile and displacement, exilic and diaspora cinemas and media, and Iranian and Third World cinemas, publishing nearly a dozen books and scores of book chapters and journal articles.
In addition, he has lectured nationally and internationally and his works have been cited and reprinted extensively and translated into many languages.
His areas of research and teaching include these topics as well as documentary and ethnographic cinemas.
Naficy was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1944.
He is related to Azar Nafisi, Saeed Nafisi, and Habib Nafisi.
His childhood interest was in photography and new technologies.
He moved to the United States in 1964, to attend university.
Naficy graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.A. degree in Telecommunications; before attending the University of California, Los Angeles where he earned an M.F.A. degree in Theater Arts and a Ph.D. in Critical Studies of Film and Television.
He returned to Iran from 1973 to 1978 after being invited to assist with the design, planning, and implementation of a new, progressive, multimedia national university in Iran, The Free University of Iran (Daneshgah-e Azad-e Iran), which was closed down after the revolution.
In addition to his books and essays, Naficy has produced many educational films and experimental videos, organized numerous symposia and lecture series, participated in major international film festivals, curated film series, and initiated the annual Iranian film festivals in Los Angeles in 1990 and in Houston in 1992.
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His book An Accented Cinema: Exilic and Diasporic Filmmaking (2001) was a finalist in 2003 for the prestigious Kraszna-Krausz Moving Image Book Award and Choice Magazine selected it as one of the "outstanding academic titles for 2002."
His work, A Social History of Iranian Cinema (2012) was the winner of the Middle Eastern Studies Association's Houshang Pourshariati Iranian Studies Book Award and received an Honorable Mention for the Katherine Singer Kovács Book Award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
The Persian language translation of the book by Mohammad Shahba won the "Best Translation" Cinema Book Award at the 5th Annual Cinema Book Awards in Tehran, Iran, in February 2016.
