Jalal Toufic

Jalal Toufic is a Lebanese artist, filmmaker, and author of various publications.

Born to an Iraqi father and a Palestinian mother,^[1]^[2] he has lived in Lebanon for about seventeen years, and his work often reflects his heritage.

He is co-publisher and co-editor, with Gilbert Hage, of Underexposed Books.^[3]

Publications[]

Distracted (1991)
(Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (1993)
Over-Sensitivity (1996)
Forthcoming (2000)
Undying Love, or Love Dies (2002)
‘Âshûrâ’: This Blood Spilled in My Veins (2005)
Two or Three Things I’m Dying to Tell You (2005)
Undeserving Lebanon (2007)
The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (2009)
Graziella: The Corrected Edition (2009)
What Is the Sum of Recurrently? (2010)
The Portrait of the Pubescent Girl: A Rite of Non-Passage (2011)
What Were You Thinking? (2011)
The Dancer's Two Bodies (2015)
What Was I Thinking? (2017)

Exhibitions[]

Group Exhibitions[]

Cycles of Collapsing Progress, curated by and , Rashid Karami International Fair, Tripoli, Lebanon, 2018^[4]
Beirut Lab: 1975(2020) Curated by Juli Carson and Yassmeen Tukan, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, 2019^[5]

References[]

^ JalalToufic.com - Publications
^ "Station Hill Authors - Jalal Toufic". Archived from the original on 2008-06-02. Retrieved 2007-09-15.
^ "HAGE Gilbert". Beirut Exhibition Center. Archived from the original on 16 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2012.
^ "Cycles Of Collapsing Progress". Studiocur Art. 2018. Retrieved 14 February 2019.
^ "Beirut Lab: 1975(2020)". University of California. 2019. Retrieved 10 October 2019.