Associate Lecturer (MAST) · Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
Researcher in Anthropology · AI & Innovation Product Manager, Mediagenix
Researcher in Anthropology · AI & Innovation Product Manager, Mediagenix
Anthropology
Indian Cinema
Transnational Circulation
Bollywood
MENA Markets
Cultural Industries
Recommendation Algorithms & AI
About
Némésis Srour is an anthropologist specialising in the transnational circulation of Hindi films in the Middle East. She holds a PhD in social anthropology and ethnology from the EHESS. Her work documents the distribution networks that brought Indian cinema to Beirut, Cairo, and Dubai from the 1950s onwards — a historical anthropology of South-South film circuits.
Her research sits at the intersection of the anthropology of film networks and the economics of cultural industries. Alongside her academic work, she works as an AI & Innovation Product Manager in the media industry, and explores questions of cultural circulation in the age of algorithms and digital platforms.
Research Areas
History of Film Industries
Circulation of Indian films in the Middle East and North Africa
Economics
Merchant networks, distribution and exhibition in the film industries (India / Middle East)
Digital
AI, algorithmic recommendation, and forms of cultural circulation on digital platforms
Publications
2024
Bollywood Film Traffic: A History of Hindi Films’ Circulation in Beirut, Cairo, and Dubai, 1954–2014
Monograph · Palgrave Macmillan (Palgrave Studies in Arab Cinema)
2023
in Elsaket, Biltereyst & Meers (eds.), Cinema in the Arab World · Bloomsbury Academic
2022
in Benchenna & Marchetti (eds.), La culture et ses dépendances · IFPO / CJB, Beirut-Rabat
2019
Arabian Humanities · Open access
2018
Cinémas : Revue d’études cinématographiques, vol. 27, n° 2-3
2013
Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée, n° 134
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