Jalal Toufic

Jalal Toufic is a Lebanese artist, filmmaker, and author of various publications.

Born to an Iraqi father and a Palestinian mother, 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.

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)

Group exhibitions

 * Cycles of Collapsing Progress, Rashid Karami International Fair, Tripoli, Lebanon, 2018
 * Beirut Lab: 1975(2020) Curated by Juli Carson and Yassmeen Tukan, University Art Gallery, University of California, Irvine, 2019