Azza El Hassan

Azza El Hassan is an award-winning filmmaker whose works include The Unbearable Presence of Asmahan (2014), Kings & Extras (2004), and News Time (2001). She is the founder of The Void Project (thevoidproject.org), an artistic exploration of the effect of looting and destruction of Palestinian visual archives on the formation of a modern Palestinian visual narrative. She received her Ph.D. from Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and is a visiting professor of practice at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies in Qatar.