Jehane Noujaim ’92

Jehane Noujaim is an Egyptian-American documentary filmmaker. Following the release of Control Room, which explored Al Jazeera, the U.S. military’s Central Command, and the contrasting ways of reporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Noujaim was awarded a 2006 TED Prize. Her film The Square was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature in 2014.

“How do you put all those issues that you dealt with for 30 years in an 85-minute film? You can’t. You have to just accept the fact that it’s a glimpse into these worlds, and you hope it’s going to be a valuable glimpse for people, or motivate people to get into discussions, or look a little bit deeper—to think about people on the other side of the conflict as human beings.”

— Jehane Noujaim quoted in “Innovative Voices,” by Sheri Linden,
The Hollywood Reporter, November 1, 2004