Tahani Rached is a

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documentary filmmaker. She is best known for her work '' Four Women of Egypt''. She has directed more than 20 documentary films in her career.

Life and career

Tahani Rached was born on May 16, 1947 in

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. In 1966, she moved to Montreal to pursue painting. She was a student at the

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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

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in 1981. Rached however, left the Film Board in 2004 to return to Egypt to make films.

Selected filmography

* Pour faire changement (To Make a Change) - 1973 * '' Where Dollars Grow on Trees (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 * ''

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'' - 2005 * '' Neighbors'' - 2007

References

External links

Tahani Rached
at the National Film Board of Canada
Tahani Rached
at Canadian Women Film Directors Database * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rached, Tahani 1947 births Living people Canadian women film directors Canadian documentary film directors Egyptian women film directors École des beaux-arts de Montréal alumni National Film Board of Canada people Egyptian Canadian Canadian women documentary filmmakers