Jihan El Tahri

Jihan El Tahri is a Franco-Egyptian film director, writer, visual artist, and producer. El Tahri has been a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences since 2017, and is currently on the selection committee of the Locarno International Film Festival. She has directed more than 15 films and her visual-art exhibitions have traveled to museums and biennials around the world. Her writings include Les Sept Vies de Yasser Arafat and Israel and the Arabs: The 50 Years War. She continues to mentor and direct various documentary and filmmaking labs. El Tahri has served on the boards of several African film organizations, including the Federation of Pan African Cinema and the Guild of African Filmmakers in the Diaspora. El Tahri holds a BA and an MA (1984 and 1986, respectively) in political science from the American University in Cairo, Egypt.

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Asia | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

post Presents: Unsettled Dust—Archives, Epistemologies, Images

These presentations and panel discussion at MoMA brought together four filmmakers and artists who work in expanded documentary modes, using existing footage, archival research, interviews, and scripted narratives to produce imaginative accounts of transnational struggles, solidarities, and interventions. Using moving images, some of these practitioners interrogate the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements of the mid-late 20th…