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 for about seventeen years, and his work often reflects his heritage.

He is co-publisher and co-editor, with Gilbert Hage, of Underexposed Books.

• 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, curated by Karina El Helou and Anissa Touati, 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