Alaa Mansour

Alaa Mansour is an artist, filmmaker and archivist based between Marseille and Beirut. Her work examines the histories of violence and the power of images in the age of necropolitics. Her debut documentary film Aïnata (2018), shot in the south of Lebanon, is a seminal work embodying her interest in archives. It has been screened internationally. She is currently head of visual research for Bidayat, an intellectual and cultural quarterly magazine published in Beirut, and is also involved in other publications.