Tahani Rached

Canadian-Egyptian documentary filmmaker (born 1947)

Tahani Rached
Born	(1947-05-16) May 16, 1947 (age 76) Cairo, Egypt
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.^[1]

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.^[1] She became more involved with the community and thus, turned to filmmaking.^[2]

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. ^[3]

In 2023 she was named the recipient of the Prix Albert-Tessier for her career achievements.^[4]

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

References

^ ^a ^b Hillauer, Rebecca (2005). Encyclopedia of Arab women filmmakers. Cairo, Egypt: American University in Cairo Press. ISBN 9789774249433. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
^ Hottell, Ruth; Pallister, Janis (2005). French-speaking women documentarians : a guide. New York: P.Lang. ISBN 9780820476148. Retrieved 14 December 2015.
^ "Tahani Rached, a committed filmmaker". National Film Board of Canada. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
^ Jean Siag, "Québec dévoile les lauréats des Prix du Québec". La Presse, October 26, 2023.