Jalal Toufic Explained

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, 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, 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]

External links

• Official Site
  • Interview with Jalal Toufic

Notes and References

1. http://www.jalaltoufic.com/undyinglove.htm JalalToufic.com - Publications
2. Web site: Station Hill Authors – Jalal Toufic . 2007-09-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080602111756/http://www.stationhill.org/toufic.html . 2008-06-02 . dead .
3. Web site: HAGE Gilbert . Beirut Exhibition Center . 18 February 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180216190106/http://www.beirutexhibitioncenter.com/learn/artist/gilbert-hage . 16 February 2018 . dead .
4. Web site: Cycles Of Collapsing Progress . 2018 . Studiocur Art . 14 February 2019.
5. Web site: Beirut Lab: 1975(2020) . 2019 . University of California . 10 October 2019.