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Tahani Rached

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Nationality
  
Canadian-Egyptian

Years active
  
1973-present

Occupation
  
Filmmaker

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Born
  
May 16, 1947 (age 69) (
1947-05-16
)
Cairo, Egypt

Movies
  
Four Women of Egypt, El-Banate dol, Au Chic Resto Pop, Giran, La phonie furieuse

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.

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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. She became more involved with the community and thus, turned to filmmaking.

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.

Selected filmography

  • Les voleurs des jobs (1972)
  • La phonie furieuse (1982)
  • Beyrouth! Not Enough Death to Go Round (1983)
  • 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)
  • These Girls (2005)
  • Neighbors (2007)

    • References

    Tahani Rached Wikipedia
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