Yahya Laayouni is an Associate Professor of Arabic and French at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania. Yahya is a team member of the New York Forum of Amazigh Film (NYFAF). His research focuses on French, North African, and Amazigh cinema. He is interested in questions of religion, gender and sexuality in film. He is also interested in topics related to visual alterity and postcolonial subjectivity. He published an article in the Journal of Religion and Film: “From Marseille to Mecca: Reconciling the Secular and the Religious in Le grand voyage (2004).” He also published several film reviews in The French Review  Journal such as “Nabil Ayouch’s Much Loved, Hicham Lasri’s C’est eux les chiens, Boris Lojkin’s Hope and Danielle Arbid’s Peur de rien. He has also published a review of Djemaa Maazouzi‘s book Le partage des mémoires: la guerre d’Algérie en littérature, au cinéma et sur le web.