Dimensions 21,8 x 21,3 cm Number of pages 174 Sharif Waked’s seven-minute video, Chic Point: Fashion For Israeli Checkpoints has solicited a bevy of artistic and critical responses and unleashed strong reverberations throughout intellectual and artistic circles. In 2007, Andalus Publishing House released a book about Waked’s video work and its implications. The trilingual book (Arabic, English, and Hebrew) contains a DVD of the short film, still photography from the set, and five essays about and inspired by the film. The book includes the contributions of Elia Suleiman, Nicole Brenez, Sherene Seikaly, Ariella Azoulay, and Jack Persekian. Sharif Waked has offered permission to publish excerpts from the critical essays on the video together with a couple of minutes from the video. The following segments are excerpts from the essays by Sherene Seikaly and Ariella Azoulay