Hisham is a practicing filmmaker from Lebanon. He has studied in the US with filmmakers Raoul Ruiz and Miklós Jancsó and lectured on filmmaking in the US, Lebanon, Ireland, Korea, and Japan. Much of his work may be viewed as meditations on the themes of exile and melancholy. These visual meditations are shaped by his personal experience of interceding between the Middle East of his Arab-Muslim upbringing and Anglo/European art and culture. Emerging from this personal context, his work reflects political and social concerns with contemporary Arab politics and culture and aesthetic concerns with painterly values and the poetics of modern life. Read full profile here.

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