Jalal Toufic

Jalal Toufic is a Lebanese artist, filmmaker, and author of various publications.

Born to an Iraqi father and a Palestinian mother,^[1][2] he has lived in Lebanon, and his work often reflects his heritage.^{[citation needed]} He is co-publisher and co-editor, with Gilbert Hage, of Underexposed Books.^[3]

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)^{[citation needed]}

Exhibitions

Group exhibitions

• Cycles of Collapsing Progress, Rashid Karami International Fair, Tripoli, Lebanon, 2018^[4]
• Beirut Lab: 1975(2020) Curated by Juli Carson and Yassmeen Tukan, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, 2019^[5]

References

1. JalalToufic.com - Publications
2. "Station Hill Authors – Jalal Toufic". Archived from the original on 2008-06-02. Retrieved 2007-09-15.
3. "HAGE Gilbert". Beirut Exhibition Center. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
4. "Cycles Of Collapsing Progress". Studiocur Art. 2018. Archived from the original on 8 January 2023. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
5. "Beirut Lab: 1975(2020)". University of California. 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.

External links

• Official Site
• Jalal Toufic at IMDb
• Interview with Jalal Toufic