"Jocelyne Saab (1948–2019, Beirut) was a Lebanese journalist, war reporter, filmmaker, photographer, visual artist and cultural activist. She began her career as a war reporter in 1973 and made almost thirty documentaries during the Lebanese Civil War, including Beyrouth, ma ville and Lettre de Beyrouth. Her films combine first-hand observation of war with a deeply personal engagement with Beirut and its history. She also made films in Egypt, Iran and Vietnam. In 1985, she directed her first fiction feature, A Suspended Life, selected for Directors’ Fortnight at Cannes. Her later films, including Once Upon a Time, Beirut: Story of a Star and Dunia, moved freely between documentary, fiction and archival cinema. From 2007 onwards, she increasingly worked in contemporary art, creating video installations and photography. She also helped rebuild the Lebanese Film Archive and, in 2013, founded the International Festival of Cultural Resistance. Throughout her career, Saab explored war, memory, displacement and the possibility of peace across film and visual art."