Jocelyne Saab is a filmmaker and a photographer, she was born in 1948 and grew up in Beirut. In 1973, she became a war reporter in the Middle East, covering the war of October for Magazine 52. In 1975 she directs her first feature film, a documentary released in Parisian cinemas: Lebanon in Turmoil. She will then cover the Lebanese war for fifteen years, during which she directs almost thirty films, including Beirut, never again, Letter from Beirut and Beirut, my city. Towards the end of her life, she conceives a last series of photographs, One Dollar a Day, and directs several art videos: One Dollar a Day and Imaginary Postcard in 2016, and My Name is Mei Shigenobu, which was released as a posthumous work (2019).