| ID | 119875 |
| Title Proper | Dave Eggers' roundtable |
| Other Title Information | Arabia yesterday, today, and tomorrow |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Eggers, David ; al-Harthy, Mamdouh ; Hatrash, Hasan ; al-Mansour, Haifaa |
| Publication | 2013. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | Last year, the San Francisco-based author Dave Eggers published his book, A Hologram for the King, a vision of Saudi Arabia where the Western world of holograms and the Internet comes up against the hard realities of today's Saudi Arabia. Eggers, whose novel was nominated for a National Book Award, spent weeks in the Kingdom researching, meeting an extraordinary Saudi filmmaker whose first feature, Wadjda, premiered at the Venice Film Festival to considerable acclaim, and two Saudis who inspired key characters. World Policy Journal assembled Haifaa al-Mansour, Saudi Arabia's first female film director; Mamdouh al-Harthy, a brilliant journalist and documentary producer, cast in Hologram as a driver who leads the narrator into the depths of the Saudi mind and spirit; and Hasan Hatrash, journalist, filmmaker, and muscian, with a similar role in the novel, who in real life produced the Portfolio in the Winter 2012-2013 issue of World Policy Journal. Eggers served as the moderator for this 90-minute roundtable discussion on art, freedom, and politics in Saudi Arabia and the post-Arab Spring Middle East. |
| `In' analytical Note | World Policy Journal Vol. 30, No.1; Spring 2013: p.78-85 |
| Journal Source | World Policy Journal Vol. 30, No.1; Spring 2013: p.78-85 |
| Key Words | Dave Eggers ; San Francisco ; Western World ; Internet ; Saudi Arabia ; Middle East |