Susan Youssef on Clubhouse

Bio

Writer/Director. My films are now on Netflix and Ushub.

Sundance calls my latest movie ‘Marjoun and the Flying Headscarf,’ one of “9 Essential Independent Films”

Visiting Professor / Fellow / Guest Speaker at Wesleyan, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, Duke, NYU, Rietveld, Hogeschool (Amsterdam), and more

My first job out of college was as a Teaching Fellow at the IC in Beirut.

Fulbright Fellow in Islamic Civilizations, Princess Grace Award, 21st Century Fox Director Fellow

Film Prizes include NETPAC, FIPRESCI, and more internationally

Museums showing my work have been Tate Modern, New Museum, MoMA and more

Palestine in my soul; Lebanon and Syria in my body. My baby and her daddy are Cantonese.

My name in the Plum Village tradition is Open Vision of the Heart.

Sometimes I am a script and film consultant. Sometimes I blog for publications.

I speak loving Arabic, clumsy Dutch and forgetful French.

Brooklyn born, Live in Old and New Amsterdam.

Thank you for reading my bio! I am so happy to meet you.