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Jocelyne Saab (30 April 1948 – 7 January 2019) was a Lebanese journalist and film director. She is recognized as one of the pioneers of Lebanese cinema.
Jan 13, 2019 · L ebanese filmmaker Jocelyne Saab died on Monday in Paris after a long illness. She was at her book launch less than three weeks earlier, and was eloquent, as peppy as possible, and there was still mischief in her eyes.
Jocelyne Saab. Director: Dunia. She was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. Her first job was hosting a pop music program on the national Lebanese radio station called "Marsipulami got blue eyes." Then she became a television newsreader. Once civil war broke out in Lebanon, Saab started working on documentary films.
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Jan 24, 2019 · A tribute to the late Lebanese journalist and filmmaker who documented conflict and deprivation in the Middle East and beyond. Learn about her career, her artistic vision and her legacy through her films and installations.
Apr 1, 2024 · Jocelyne Saab died on January 7, 2019; she left a rich body of work that was too little known during her lifetime. After working as a journalist in Lebanon from 1970, and as a war reporter for French television from 1973, she became an independent documentary filmmaker in 1974.
The epic, impressionistic trilogy of documentaries about Beirut by Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019) are at once landmark works of Lebanese cinema and masterpieces of the essay film form.
Jocelyne Saab is born as a radio and television journalist, and after the success of the Libyan experience she is able to go to the firing hearth of Middle East. Her reportages from Israel, Golan, Egypt and Iraq are, even in their brevity, precious contributions to understand contemporaneity.
