Safaa Fathy is an Egyptian poet, documentary filmmaker, playwright, and essayist. She is best known for her film Derrida's Elsewhere, a documentary which focuses on the life and concepts of controversial philosopher Jacques Derrida.
Early life and career
Fathy was born in Minya, Upper Egypt on July 17, 1958. She studied English literature in Cairo. Fathy participated in the student movement while in Egypt but later left the country and settled in Paris in 1981. In 1987, she was an assistant director at the Deutsches Theater located in East Berlin. Fathy worked with Heiner Muller in 1990.[1] She completed her doctoral thesis at the Sorbonne in 1993;[2] her thesis was on Bertolt Brecht. Before becoming a filmmaker, Fathy worked as a stage director.[1]
Revolution goes through walls, collection in Arabic, also published in English and French translations
A name to the sea
Al Haschiche (ISBN9789689246138, a book of poetry accompanied by film-poem, Hidden Valley) bilingual Spanish-French, Ediciones sin nombre, Mexico; English-language edition, Pamenar Press.
…où ne pas naître, bilingual collection in Arabic and French
Little Wooden Dolls
حيث لا نولد, published in a bilingual Arabic-English edition as Where Not to Be Born (Litmus Press, 2024)
In collective volumes
Ma langue est mon territoire, Collection Folies d’encre, Eden, Paris
^Derrida, Jacques; Fathy, Safaa (2000). Tourner les mots : au bord d'un film. Paris. ISBN9782718605401.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
