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Filmmaker · Lebanon

Jocelyne Saab

Died in 2019

Jocelyne Saab was born in April 1948 in Beirut. She studied economics at Saint-Joseph and then at the Sorbonne, joined the daily as-Safa in 1973 and became a war reporter, from the October War onwards. Her first documentary, in 1975, was censored in Lebanon; three films on Beirut at war followed, then others on Western Sahara and on Iran. From 1992 she worked on reconstituting the Lebanese Cinémathèque. She died in Paris on 7 January 2019.

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