Crafting Narratives of Resistance & Contemporary Arab Culture | Omar Al-Qattan
We talked to Omar Al – Qattan about his work as a director and film producer, and about his experience making “Tale of the Three Jewels” in addition to his many other movies and films. We also asked him about Al – Qattan Foundation and the mosaic rooms they established in London in 2008.
Omar Al-Qattan graduated with a degree in English literature from Oxford University, and he studied film directing at the Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacles (INSAS) in Brussels. His first film, Dreams & Silence, an early exploration of political Islam, won the prestigious 1991 Joris Ivens Award. In 1994, he produced Michel Khleifi’s Tale of the Three Jewels, shot entirely in the Occupied Gaza Strip. He has since worked on numerous films, including Khleifi’s Zindeeq. Al-Qattan is a founding member of the A. M. Qattan Foundation and established the Mosaic Rooms in London in 2008. Aside from working on various movies, Al-Qattan was the Chair of the 2013 and 2015 Shubbak Festival of Contemporary Arab Culture in London and is Chair of the Palestinian Museum in the Occupied Territories.
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