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About Saeed Taji Farouky

Saeed Taji Farouky is the director of I See The Stars At Noon and the co-founder of the film’s production company Tourist With A Typewriter. He is a freelance journalist and photographer.

Articles by Saeed Taji Farouky

Thursday 18th May

Palestinian cinema: comedy in conflict

Saeed Taji Farouky, 18 May 2006
Fresh from London's Palestine Film Festival, Saeed Taji Farouky relives the laughter amid the darkness and reveals humour's precious, humanising power.
Monday 6th March

Deserted in Western Sahara

Saeed Taji Farouky, 6 March 2006
Thirty years since the declaration of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic the people of this "non-country" are still waiting for peaceful independence and expecting war. Saeed Taji Farouky joins a grim anniversary celebration.
Friday 24th February

Listening to Istanbul

Saeed Taji Farouky, 24 February 2006
Fatih Akin's new film, "Crossing the Bridge", allows Istanbul's music and musicians to reveal the city's fascinating and contradictory character – paradoxically without escaping risks of a Eurocentric perspective.
Wednesday 21st December

Shadowplay in Dubai

Saeed Taji Farouky, 21 December 2005
The second Dubai International Film festival boasted an impressively progressive programme of documentaries. But beyond the red carpets and flashing lights Saeed Taji Farouky detected elements of censorship lurking in the shadows.
Thursday 27th October

I See The Stars At Noon: filming Morocco's emigration hunger

Saeed Taji Farouky, 27 October 2005
Saeed Taji Farouky’s documentary about a Moroccan desperately seeking a new life in Spain took a surprising twist as his friendship with Abdelfattah led him to the heart of the reasons for “secret emigration”.
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