Biography
Raed Rafei is a multimedia journalist, media trainer and filmmaker with over ten years of experience reporting on international topics in a variety of mediums.
Born and raised in Tripoli, Lebanon, at the height of his country’s civil war, he has a keen interest in the human stories that lie at the heart of the transformations witnessed in the Arab world in recent years. To that end, he is regularly working on videos, documentaries and hybrid films.
For over ten years, he worked as a reporter for national and international publications covering political, social and economic issues in the Middle East. He also worked as a researcher, producer and director on many TV news reports and documentaries for channels like Al-Jazeera, CNN and ARTE. Since 2011, Rafei has produced independent hybrid films.
He made two feature films: 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle) (2012) and Here I am … Here you are (2017); and two short films: Prologue (2011) and Salam (2017). His films have screened at i...