The ceasefire declared on October 21st, 1976 gives the fedayin the opportunity to reclaim what had been Fatah territory until it was abandoned in 1970, from the right-wing militia. Syrians…
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 […]
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 Lady of Saigon
Portrait of Dr Hoa, an extraordinary woman who was a minister in the South Vietnamese revolutionary government. Her life is a battle, and that battle is a pleasure. During the […]
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…
Children of War
Days after the massacre in Karantina, a predominantly Muslim shanty town in Beirut, Jocelyne Saab finds and meets children who have escaped, and who are deeply traumatized by the horrific […]