Saeed Taji Farouky is a freelance journalist, photographer and documentary filmmaker who specialises in the politics and culture of the Arab World.
His work has been published by The Observer, The Telegraph, The Independent, Reuters, BBC Online, The Economist Group, Aljazeera online and Open Democracy, amongst others.
He is also co-director of the documentary production company Tourist With A Typewriter, and a consultant to the Board of the Arab British Centre.
//LATEST NEWS//
July '08
The Path of Most Resistance, a documentary produced and filmed by Saeed Taji Farouky and directed by Gareth Keogh will premier at London's prestigeous Frontline Club on August 8th. The Path of Most Resistance is the latest film from Al-Jazeera International and Tourist With a Typewiter, the documentary production company co-Directed by Saeed and Gareth, Click here for more details of the screening and how to get tickets, and read more about the film here.
Tourist Co-Director Saeed Taji Farouky has been awarded a bursary to study at the Centre for Investigative Journalism in their 2008 Summer School, featuring celebrated journalists like John Pilger and Nick Davies as tutors. Read more about the programme here.
Two of Saeed Taji Farouky's photographs from his work in the West Bank have been selected for the prestigeous Foto8 Summer Show at London's Host Gallery, alongside such established names as Zed Nelson, Adam Hinton and Karim Ben Khelifa. The images are short-listed for the Best in Show award, and may be published in the October edition of 8 magazine, the UK's premier photojournalism and documentary photography magazine.
The images are for sale at the exhibition opening, so click here for details of how to attend.
May '08
Following his visit to Burundi in March, Saeed reported for The Guardian on the country's landmine clearance operation. Read the article here, and see his photographs here.
Gareth Keogh who, along with Saeed, is co-Director of documentary production company Tourist With A Typewriter, has finished editing his documentary The Path of Most Resistance about conscientious objectors from the US Military. Read the team's production journals here.
Mar '08
Saeed is currently in Burundi, photographing and reporting for The Guardian, BBC Online and Reuters Alertnet. He's also shooting a film with the Swiss demining charity FSD. The film documents FSD's programme to declare Burundi the world's first 100% landmine free country. Read Saeed's production journals here.
Tunnel Trade, co-Directed by Saeed and Laila El-Haddad in Gaza in May of 2007 will screen at the London Independent Documentary Festival on April 5,
the New Orleans Human Rights Film Festival on April 13,
and the Palestine Film Festival in London on April 19.
Feb '08
Post production continues on Tourist With A Typewriter's film about conscientious objectors from the U.S. military - The Path of Most Resistance.
Jan '08
The Tourist team are back from the U.S. after further production on their latest documentary about conscientuous objectors from the U.S. military, The Path of Most Resistance. Read the team's production journals here.
Dec '07
Saeed and the Tourist With A Typewriter team head to the U.S. for some clandestine filming for their latest documentary about conscientuous objectors from the U.S. military, The Path of Most Resistance.
Look out for more details of their trip which, for their own safety, won't be revealed until they return on January 4th...
Sept '07
Upcoming screenings of I See The Stars At Noon:
Sodepau's Arab Film Week 18th-21st of October: Barcelona, Spain
OVNI, October 4-6 at CECUT (Centro Cultural De Tijuana) Tijuana, Mexico
OVNI, Ovtober 17-20 at CCIMX (Centro Cultural de Espana en Mexico) Mexico City
Tunnel Trade will screen on Al-Jazeera International's "People & Power" programme at these times:
Monday, September 3 (0130 GMT)
Tuesday, September 4 (0630 and 1330 GMT)
Saturday, September 8 (0300 and 2030 GMT)
You can watch the film online here.
Aug '07
Saeed, with Tourist With A Typewriter Ltd, has completed two more documentary films.Tunnel Trade is an Al-Jazeera "People & Power" documentary about smuggling through tunnels into Gaza, and A Midsummer Night's War, is an Al-Jazeera "Witness" short asking if art and culture can survive the ravages of war.
Following their premiers at London's Frontline Club, they will screen on Al-Jazeera International. Click here for more details, or read the film's production journals here.
July '07
The rough cut of Tunnel Trade, an Al-Jazeera "People & Power" documentary about smuggling through tunnels into Gaza, is complete. Read the production journals here.
The trailer for I See The Stars At Noon can now be viewed online, and DVDs of the full 57-minute film can be purchaed by emailing us here.
May '07
As some of Gaza's worst factional violence broke out, Saeed was there, filming two documentaries and reporting for The Independent and Reuters Alertnet
Saeed is back in Palestine/Israel for the third workshop of the Side-by-Side project. Read more about it here.
April '07
Saeed returns to Western Sahara for more work on a two-year long documentary project.
March '07
The Tourist With A Typewriter documentary I See The Stars At Noon will screen in Montreal at the Montreal Human Rights Film Festival, March 23-29th, and at the Mizna Arab Film Festival in Minneapolis, March 31.
Gothenburg, Sweden's Museum of World Culture invites Director Saeed Taji Farouky to a screening and discussion of I See The Stars At Noon as part of the museum's series of events on human trafficking.
Feb '07
Saeed joines Italian documentary film and festival director Federico Ambiel in Lebanon for his surreal journey; Skiing With Hezbullah
Jan '07
Saeed finally enters the world of blogging. Read the production journals of Tourist With A Typewriter
Saeed returns to Palestine/Israel to continue his ambitious photography project with UK-based charity PhotoVoice (more about it here...)
Nov '06
Director Saeed Taji Farouky invited to Dokfestival Leipzig, Germany's biggest documentary film festival, as a panelist on Arab documentaries (more...)
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