Jalal Toufic (born 1962 in Beirut or Baghdad, lives and works in Istanbul) is a
Lebanese thinker, writer, and video artist. He is the author of
Distracted (1991; 2nd ed., 2003),
(Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on the Undead in Film (1993; 2nd ed., 2003),
Over-Sensitivity (1996; 2nd ed., 2009),
Forthcoming (2000),
Undying Love, or Love Dies (2002),
Two or Three Things I'm Dying to Tell You (2005),
‘Âshûrâ': This Blood Spilled in My Veins (2005),
Undeserving Lebanon (2007),
The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster (2009) and
Graziella: The Corrected Edition (2009). He co-edited the special
Discourse issue
Gilles Deleuze: A Reason to Believe in this World, and edited the special
Discourse issues
Middle Eastern Films Before Thy Gaze Returns to Thee and
Mortals to Death. He has taught at the University of California at Berkeley, California Institute of the Arts, the University of Southern California, and, in Lebanon, Holy Spirit University; and he currently teaches at Kadir Has University in Istanbul.
