Jalal Toufic is a
Lebanese artist, filmmaker, and author of various publications.
Born to an
Iraqi father and a
Palestinian
Palestinians ( ar, الفلسطينيون, ; he, פָלַסְטִינִים, ) or Palestinian people ( ar, الشعب الفلسطيني, label=none, ), also referred to as Palestinian Arabs ( ar, الفلسطينيين العرب, label=non ...
mother, he has lived in Lebanon for about seventeen years, and his work often reflects his heritage.
He is co-publisher and co-editor, with
Gilbert Hage, of Underexposed Books.
Publications
*''Distracted'' (1991)
*(Vampires)'': An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film'' (1993)
*''Over-Sensitivity'' (1996)
* ''Forthcoming'' (2000)
* ''Undying Love, or Love Dies'' (2002)
* ''‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in My Veins'' (2005)
* ''Two or Three Things I’m Dying to Tell You'' (2005)
*''Undeserving Lebanon'' (2007)
*''The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster'' (2009)
*''Graziella: The Corrected Edition'' (2009)
*''What Is the Sum of Recurrently?'' (2010)
*''The Portrait of the Pubescent Girl: A Rite of Non-Passage'' (2011)
*''What Were You Thinking?'' (2011)
*''The Dancer's Two Bodies'' (2015)
*''What Was I Thinking?'' (2017)
Exhibitions
Group exhibitions
*Cycles of Collapsing Progress, curated by
Karina El Helou and
Anissa Touati Anissa may refer to:
* "Anissa" (song), a song by French singer Wejdene
People with the given name
* Anissa Abi-Dargham, American psychiatrist and member of the faculty of Columbia University
* Anissa Helou (born 1952), cookbook author, teacher, a ...
, Rashid Karami International Fair,
Tripoli, Lebanon
Tripoli ( ar, طرابلس/ALA-LC: ''Ṭarābulus'', Lebanese Arabic: ''Ṭrablus'') is the largest city in northern Lebanon and the second-largest city in the country. Situated north of the capital Beirut, it is the capital of the North Gover ...
, 2018
* Beirut Lab: 1975(2020) Curated by Juli Carson and Yassmeen Tukan, University Art Gallery,
University of California, Irvine
The University of California, Irvine (UCI or UC Irvine) is a public land-grant research university in Irvine, California. One of the ten campuses of the University of California system, UCI offers 87 undergraduate degrees and 129 graduate and p ...
, 2019
References
External links
Official Site*
Interview with Jalal Toufic
Living people
Lebanese writers
Lebanese people of Iraqi descent
Lebanese people of Palestinian descent
Lebanese contemporary artists
Lebanese filmmakers
Iraqi artists
Year of birth missing (living people)
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