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Tahani Rached
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| Born | May 16, 1947 |
| Nationality | Canadian-Egyptian |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Years active | 1973-present |
Tahani Rached is a Canadian-Egyptian 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 Cairo, Egypt. In 1966, she moved to Montreal to pursue painting. She was a student at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal 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 National Film Board 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
- These Girls - 2005
- Neighbors - 2007
See also
In Spanish: Tahani Rached para niños
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