Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan was born in Cairo, Egypt in 1960 to an Armenian/Egyptian family, and grew up across the world in Victoria, British Columbia. His familiy was artistic, his parents painters and a sister a concert pianist, and though not a film student at the time (he was taking Internati
Writer, editor, translator and critic of books of fiction, art, culture, history and religion from the Middle East focusing on Iran, Lebanon, Turkey, Algeria, Palestine, Spain, Mexico and Latin America. Camacho is a Comparative Literature (Spanish, French, and Italian) graduate of UC Berkeley and cu
Guy Debord was born in Paris. His father died early, and he was raised by his grandmother in a series of Mediterranean towns. He was a headstrong youth, and after graduating high school he dropped out of the University of Paris where he had been studying law. He became a revolutionary poet, writer an