Jihan El-Tahri

The House of Saud

Jihan El-Tahri

A Special History of Saudi Arabia, it's troubled relationship with America, and the challenges confronting a nation where tradition an modernity are in violent collision.

Cuba, une odyssée africaine

Jihan El-Tahri

Documentary about Cuban's involvement in African politics.

Nasser

Jihan El-Tahri

An examination of the legacy of Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein, who ruled Egypt during the Suez Crisis and the Six-Day War.

Behind the rainbow

Jihan El-Tahri

Behind the Rainbow explores the transition of the African National Congress (ANC) from its role as a liberation organization to its position as South Africa's ruling party, by means of the evolution of the relationship between two of its most prominent leaders, Thabo Mbeki and Jacob Zuma. Exiled under Apartheid, brothers in arms following Mandela's leadership, they loyally labored to build a non-racial state. Now they are bitter rivals. Their confrontation threatens to tear apart the ANC and the country, mean while the poor desperately seek hope in change and the elite fight for the spoils of victory.

Les pharaons de l'Egypte moderne

Jihan El-Tahri

L'Afrique en morceaux, la tragédie des grands lacs

Jihan El-Tahri

April, 1994. Genocide in Rwanda. 800,000 dead. A catastrophe that upset the balance in the entire region. The Great Lakes region of Africa ended the year with a bloodbath. This documentary shows the intrigues, the dramatic effects, the treasons, the vengeances that prevailed over those years and whose only goal was to maintain or increase each faction’s area of influence. In just ten years, the population saw all their hopes vanish: The dream of an Africa in control of its own destiny, alimentary self-sufficiency, the end of interethnic conflicts