Add/Update Information: Akram Zaatari - Writer

A Lebanese director, born in Sidon in 1966. He studied architecture at the American University of Beirut and graduated in 1989. He then studied media at the New School for Social Research in New York from 1992 to 1999. He directed and produced for three years a morning show for Future TV. He directed about thirty short films and documentaries, including Red Chewing Gum (2000), Her and Him Van Leo (2001), and How I Love You (2002). His recent work has focused on research in the field of photography through the Arab Image Foundation, which he co-founded in Beirut in 1996. He has three books on photography: Faces of Egypt, The Vehicle, and Mapping Sitting.