Helga Tawil-Souri

Who is Helga Tawil-Souri?

Helga Tawil-Souri is a Palestinian American media scholar and documentary filmmaker. Tawil-Souri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University. Tawil-Souri holds a BA from McGill University, an MA from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication, and a PhD from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Her documentary, "Not Going There, Don’t Belong Here", was completed in 2002 and filmed in November 2001 in various refugee camps in Lebanon. The film has aired on Free Speech TV, various public broadcasting channels in the U.S., at universities and film festivals in the U.S. and abroad.

"i.so.chro.nism: [twenty-four hours in jabaa]" was filmed in the Palestinian West Bank village of Jabaa and completed in 2004. The filmmaker considers it an experimental documentary film that juxtaposes the sounds and images of war and violence with traditional culture, filmed in the West Bank during the Second Intifada.