06/08/2025
Sudan, Remembered
Starting Aug. 8, ?Sudan, Remember Us? is playing in theaters across USA and Canada. Very early in our interview, filmmaker Hind Meddeb tells me she is not a journalist anymore. Newsroom politics, the endless harping on ?objectivity? and the reporting bias when writing about the Middle East, she said, has steered her away. Born to the poet Abdelwahab Meddeb and the linguist Amina Maya Khelladi, Meddeb grew up in France but spent her life travelling between Tunisia, Morocco, Syria and in places ?on the other side of the Mediterranean Sea.? Since walking away from journalism, she has been making films: About a punk-hip-hop hybrid music movement in Egypt, about civil resistance in Tunisia and...
