Tahani Rached

Tahani Rached is a Canadian-Egyptian documentary filmmaker. She is best known for her work Four Women of Egypt. She has directed more than 20 documentary films in her career.[1]

Tahani Rached
Born (1947-05-16) May 16, 1947
Cairo, Egypt
NationalityCanadian-Egyptian
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active1973-present

Life and career

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 staff filmmaker by Canada's National Film Board in 1981. Rached however, left the Film Board in 2004 to return to Egypt to make films. [3]

Selected filmography
  • Les voleurs de job (1980)
  • La phonie furieuse (1982)
  • Beyrouth! Not Enough Death to Go Round (1983)
  • Haïti (Québec) (1985)
  • Bam Pay A! Rends-moi mon pays (1986)
  • Haïti, Nous là! Nou la! (1987)
  • Au chic Resto Pop (1990)
  • Doctors with Heart (1993)
  • Emergency! A Critical Situation (1999)
  • Four Women of Egypt (1997)
  • For a Song (2001)
  • Soraida, a Woman of Palestine (2004), about a woman from Rantiya
  • These Girls (2005)
  • Neighbors (2007)

References
  1. Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab women filmmakers. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 9789774249433. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  2. Hottell, Ruth; Pallister, Janis (2005). French-speaking women documentarians : a guide. New York: P.Lang. ISBN 9780820476148. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
  3. "Tahani Rached, a committed filmmaker". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
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