Jihan El-Tahri ( ar, ﺟﻬﺎﻥ ﺍلطاهري; born in
Beirut
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,
Lebanon
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) is a writer, director and producer of documentary films. She is a French and Egyptian national.
In 1984, she received her BA in
political science
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, and in 1986 her
MA in political science from the
American University in Cairo. She worked as a
news
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correspondent
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with ''
U.S. News & World Report'' and
Reuters
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The agency was esta ...
, TV researcher, and associate producer in Tunisia, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria, and Egypt between 1984 and 1990. As a correspondent, El-Tahri covered politics in the Middle East.
In 1990, El-Tahri started directing and producing documentaries for French television, and for the
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since 1995. In 1992 she filmed
. She also provided professional support on four of the
films in 2001. The documentary, ''The House of Saud'', appeared on the BBC in 2004 and on
in 2005. Her most recent documentary, 'Behind the Rainbow', was screened during the 53rd BFI London Film Festival in 2009.
She also worked with
, an Israeli historian, on ''The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs'' in 1998.
*''The Price of Aid''/''Les maux de la faim'' (2003)
*''The House of Saud'' (2004)
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