An Algerian film critic, Abdelkarim El-Kadri has authored numerous studies and articles on cinema and literature. His critical publications include Cinema of Poetry: The Dialectics of Language and Semiology in Cinema (2016), Cinema of Visions: Readings and Studies in Arab Cinema (2017), Poetic Cinema: Questions of Structure and Meaning (published by the Saudi Film Festival, 2022), and The Aesthetics of Reception in Documentary Cinema (2024).