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In 1992, after working for nine years as a journalist, Jihan El-Tahri realized she could remember the people and places she wrote about more than the content, and decided to become a doc-maker. Once she watched Brook Lapping Productions' The Death of Yugoslavia, El-Tahri made it her mission to work with the prodco, and eventually secured a job there. For a year-and-a-half, she even made the commute from her home in Paris to the London office.

March 1, 2006

In 1992, after working for nine years as a journalist, Jihan El-Tahri realized she could remember the people and places she wrote about more than the content, and decided to become a doc-maker. Once she watched Brook Lapping Productions' The Death of Yugoslavia, El-Tahri made it her mission to work with the prodco, and eventually secured a job there. For a year-and-a-half, she even made the commute from her home in Paris to the London office.