Months after the incident on April 13th 1975, during which Palestinian civilians were gunned down by the Phalangist militia, the numbers are even more horrifying: 6,000 dead, 20,000 injured, daily…
Egypt, The City of the Dead
In this portrait of Cairo, “mother of the world”, Jocelyne Saab searches for the city’s origins. While her own city, Beirut, is being torn to pieces, in the City of […]
Copts: The Pharaohs’ Cross
A portrait of the Copts, the oldest Christian community in Egypt, their links to ancient Egypt and, in the face of rising Islamic fundamentalism, their traditions and ways of confronting…
Phantoms of Alexandria
Alexandria: by turn Hellenistic, Greek, Roman, Copt… and then a petit Paris at the end of the 1930s. Inspired by the texts of Cavaffi and Lawrence Durrell, this is a […]
Lebanese, Hostage of Their City
Jocelyne Saab films the city of Beirut destroyed by Israeli bombing, revealing the extent of the destruction and the suffering of the victims.
Al’Alma’, Belly Dancers
Curvaceous and always dressed in sequins, the belly dancers – the alma’ – are present at weddings and circumcision parties. They are inspired by the belly dancing stars of the…
Lebanon: State of Shock
Reza, a photographer from the SIPA Agency disguises himself as a stretcher-bearer and is able to infiltrate the Palestinian refugee camps of Rashidiyyeh and al-Buss near Tyre and Saida in […]
Allah’s Love
Humiliated by the 1967 defeat, the Egyptian people look for ways to rebuild their sense of identity. Religion seems to point the way for them: Jocelyne Saab portrays the success…
Fertilization in Video
Using laparoscopic instruments equipped with a camera Jocelyne Saab films the IVF process as it takes place. Report on implant operations in a hospital.
The Woman Killer
Portrait of a woman, Jocelyne Khoueiry, who in 1976, during the Lebanese Civil War, was the muse of the phalangist militia in Beirut. With her commando group of women she…