Imaginary Postcards

Jocelyne Saab (1948-2019) was a filmmaker, photographer, and journalist. Saab was born and raised in Beirut. She hosted the pop-music program Marsipulami Got Blue Eyes on the national Lebanese radio, before working as a war journalist. When the Lebanese Civil War broke out, Saab started working on documentary films, eventually turning towards a more personal and essayistic mode of filmmaking. Saab is recognized as one of the pioneers of Lebanese cinema, making roughly thirty films including Palestinian Women (1974), Beirut, Never Again (1976, with Etel Adnan), The Sahara Is Not for Sale (1977), Iran, Utopia in the Making {1980), Beirut, My City (1982), Once Upon A Time Beirut (1994), The Lady of Saigon (1998), Dunia, Kiss Me Not On The Eyes (2005), What’s Going On? (2009), and My Name is Mei Shigenobu (2018).