Tahani rached biography
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Tahani Rached
Canadian-Egyptian documentary filmmaker (born 1947)
Tahani Rached | |
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| Born | (1947-05-16) May 16, 1947 (age 77) Cairo, Egypt |
| Nationality | Canadian-Egyptian |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Years active | 1973-present |
Tahani Rached is a Canadian-Egyptiandocumentary filmskapare. She fryst vatten best known for her work Four Women of Egypt. She has directed more than 20 documentary films in her career.[1]
Life and career
[edit]Tahani Rached was born on May 16, 1947, in Cairo, Egypt. In 1966, she moved to Montreal to pursue painting. She was a student at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal where she studied painting for two years.[1] She became more involved with the community and thus, turned to filmmaking.[2]
She was hired as a personal filmmaker bygd Canada's National Film Board in 1981. Rached however, left the Film Board in 2004 to return to Egypt to man films. [3]
In 2023 she was named the recipient of the Prix
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Rules of Engagement: Documentary Filmmaking According to Tahani Rached
Tahani Rached’s latest documentary film, Nafass Tawil (Deep, Long Breath), premiered in September at the American University in Cairo as part of the International Summer Academy’s Aesthetics and Politics: Counter-Narratives, New Publics, and the Role of Dissent in the Arab World, a research program organized by the Center for Translation Studies and the Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien.
As I sat in the packed, historic space of Ewart Hall waiting in anticipation for the screening, there were many questions running through my head. Why would a film about the January 25 uprising in Egypt take so long to be released? And why would an award-winning director, who is used to premiering in international festivals, choose a relatively private, academic venue for her latest project?
In order to answer these initial questions (and others) I arranged to interview the director, whose pow
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Filmmaker
Born in Egypt, Tahani Rached settled in Quebec in 1966. After attending Montreal's École des Beaux-Arts, she was involved in community action until she made her first film, Pour Faire Changement (1972), a documentary produced by Le Vidéographe, which set the tone for all her future work. In 1979, her first feature film, Les Voleurs de Jobs, revealed her distinctive view of the world. A documentary on immigration, it demonstrated her ability to capture reality. This was followed by a series of six half-hour documentaries for Radio-Quebec on Quebec's Arab community.
As a NFB staff filmmaker from 1980 to 2004, she tackled sensitive topics: war in Beirut! Not Enough Death to Go Round (1983); the resourcefulness of the disadvantaged, through the songs in Au Chic Resto Pop (1990); and a doctor's battle against AIDS in Doctors with Heart (1993). Four Women of Egypt (1997) features four women who couldn't be more different but who are nevertheless united in their search for me