Jihan El-Tahri

{{Short description|French screenwriter and director}}

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| birth_date = 1963

| birth_place = Beirut

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| citizenship = French, Egyptian

| education = American University in Cairo

| occupation = screenwriter, director, author

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| employer = BBC, Reuters

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Jihan El-Tahri ({{langx|ar|ﺟﻬﺎﻥ ﺍلطاهري}}; born in Beirut, Lebanon) is a writer, director and producer of documentary films. She holds dual French and Egyptian nationalities.

In 1984, she received her BA in political science, and in 1986 her MA in political science from the American University in Cairo. She worked as a news correspondent with U.S. News & World Report and Reuters, TV researcher, and associate producer in Tunisia, Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Algeria, and Egypt between 1984 and 1990. As a correspondent, El-Tahri covered politics in the Middle East.{{cite news|url=http://www.lemonde.fr/afrique/article/2016/02/05/jihan-el-tahri-cineaste-du-passe-recompose_4860159_3212.html?xtmc=jihan_el_tahri&xtcr=1 | title=Jihan El-Tahri, cinéaste du passé recomposé | work=Le Monde |date=5 February 2016 | accessdate=20 May 2018 | author=Claire Diao | language=French}}

In 1990, El-Tahri started directing and producing documentaries for French television, and for the BBC since 1995. In 1992 she filmed Osama bin Laden's training camps in Sudan. She also provided professional support on four of the Steps for the Future films in 2001. The documentary, The House of Saud, appeared on the BBC in 2004{{cite news | title=L'imbroglio saoudien | work=Le Monde |date=19 September 2004 | accessdate=20 May 2018 | author=Thérèse-Marie Deffontaines et Mouna Naïm | url=http://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2004/09/19/p-l-imbroglio-saoudien-p_4293379_1819218.html#K4HF2ttGXTgFsqSK.99 | language=French}} and on PBS in 2005. Her most recent documentary, 'Behind the Rainbow', was screened during the 53rd BFI London Film Festival in 2009.{{cite web |url=https://www.screendaily.com/lff-programme/5005906.article | title=LFF programme |date=21 September 2009 | accessdate=20 May 2018}}

She also worked with Ahron Bregman, an Israeli historian, on The Fifty Years War: Israel and the Arabs in 1998.{{cite news| url=https://www.letemps.ch/no-section/conflit-israeloarabe-raconte-ont-histoire | title=Le conflit israélo-arabe raconté par ceux qui ont fait son histoire | work=Le Temps |date=27 May 1998 | accessdate=20 May 2018 | author=Pierre Hazan | language=French}}