Ghada SAYEGH(EL) RAHAL
Professeur associé - PhD
Institute for Theater, Audiovisual and Cinematic Studies (IESAV)Laboratory of Littératures et Arts (LLA)
(+961) 1 421 000 ext 5360 ghada.sayegh@usj.edu.lb
Ghada Sayegh is associate professor at the Institute for Theater, Audiovisual and Cinematic studies, Saint Joseph University of Beirut. A member of the editorial board of the online cinema review Hors-Champ based in Montreal, she has written numerous articles on cinema and contemporary art in Lebanon.
+ Degrees
• Diplôme de docteur en Arts du spectacle: Cinéma
• Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies, grade Master, Cinéma, audiovisuel, culture et société
• Diplôme en études audiovisuelles
+ Teaching experience at USJ
Master
Cinéma et Histoire
Cinéma, archives et mémoire
Pratiques artistiques contemporaines au Liban
Licence
L’Art Vidéo
Méthodologie et recherche pré-filmique
Analyse filmique II
+ Teaching experience outside USJ
Invited lecturer, Master Cinéma, Histoire des formes et théorie des images, UFR PHILIA, Université Paris-Nanterre (Paris 10)
Member of the jury, Chaghig Arzoumanian's thesis defense, «Des paysages urbains de Beyrouth aux espaces sans repères. Cartographie des représentations de l’espace et pratiques de mises en scène dans le cinéma libanais (1973-2020)», Université Paris 8 – Vincennes Saint-Denis
This is not Beirut, Workshop in the frame of “This is Not Lebanon”, Festival for Visual Arts, Performance, Music and Talks, Mousonturm, Frankfurt
Workshop on contemporary artistic practices in Lebanon, Erasmus + Programme, Freie Universität Berlin
Workshop on contemporary artistic practices in Lebanon, Aalto university School of Arts, Design and Architecture / Department of Film, Television and Scenography
Workshop on contemporary artistic practices in Lebanon, Erasmus + Programme, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
+ Professionnal experience outside USJ
Member of the Jury, General Grants-Cinema, The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), 2022
Member of the reading committee, General Grants-Cinema, The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), 2021
Member of the reading committee, AFAC Documentary Program, The Arab Fund for Arts and Culture (AFAC), 2019
Member of the reading committee, General Grants-Cinema, The Arab Fund For Arts and Culture (AFAC), 2016
+ Expertise field
Art, Humanities, Religious Sciences
+ Research topics
Cinema and contemporary art confronted with history
Artistic creation after the catastrophe
Archival images in cinema and contemporary art
+ Publications and communications
Hors Champ, January/February 2022
Co-direction of the issue Circuler dans les archives du cinéma: rencontres, gestes et affectivités / Introduction text, Correspondence Series,
Nour Ouayda and Ghada Sayegh
Correspondence Series
Images et lettres de poussière… Un jour sans lendemain de Mohamed Soueid
Ghada Sayegh and Mohamed Soueid
On Representing the War as Rupture: Jocelyne Saab and New Lebanese Cinema (1975-1990) / ReFocus : The Films of Jocelyne Saab, Juin 2021
Films, Artworks and Cultural Events for the Arab World
Edinburgh University Press
Edited by Mathilde Rouxel, Stefanie Van de Peer
Between images : here and elsewhere / Saradar Collection,
Commissioned text: http://www.saradarcollection.com/ContentFiles/1219PDFLink.pdf
Missing images – the hiatus / Image(s) manquante(s), entre-deux / On Photography in
Lebanon: Essays and Stories (Bilingual, English, French), Sept. 2018
KAPH Edition, Art Books from the Middle East, Beirut
Edited by Clémence Cottard Hachem & Nour Salamé
+ Awards and recognition
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+ Resourcing
Pratiques et savoirs argentiques : recherches expérientielles de l’image en
mouvement, École d’été 2024 organisée par Noah Teichner et Emmanuel Falguières, EUR
ArTeC, du 24 au 28 juin 2024
Film Restoration Training, organisé par l'Association Jocelyne Saab, en partenariat avec
ALBA-UOB, IESAV-USJ et la Coopérative des métiers du cinéma, du 23 au 31 mai 2024.
Writing with Montage: Processing text, visual and sound fragments, led by Hussein Nakhal, in the framework of the Continuing Learning Program at IESAV, USJ, 04-2024.
Small-File Media Workshop, led by Laura Marks and James Chehab,