Yaron Shemer is Associate Professor of film and Israel cultural studies at The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. He earned his Ph.D. in Film Studies from The University of Texas at Austin. He is the author of Identity, Place, and Subversion in Contemporary Mizrahi Cinema in Israel (U. of Michigan Press, 2013). Shemer has also published on the Jew in Middle Eastern Cinema and on Palestinian cinema. His current book project is “Israeli-Palestinian Encounters: National Narratives in Political Cartoons, Cinema, and Translation.” Shemer has also produced and directed documentary films in Israel, Poland, and the U.S.