Hind Meddeb

Hind Meddeb is a French-Tunisian journalist and documentary film director. Based in Paris, she works both in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East. In her films and journalistic writing, she has presented social protests of young people and their culture in Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. Documenting their social situation and political expressions in the context of the Arab revolutions, she has focussed on rap music or other kinds of counter-culture and protest in these countries. Meddeb was born in Châtenay-Malabry, Paris, France. Her father was the Tunisian poet and essayistAbdelwahab Meddeb, and her mother is the linguist Amina Maya Khelladi of Moroccan-Algerian descent. She graduated from Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) and also holds a Master of Philosophy degree from Paris West University Nanterre La Défense. Moreover, she studied German language and literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University and did research at the Free University of Berlin.