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Fuad Halwani is a Lebanese scriptwriter, media producer and former media instructor (Theatre/TV/Film) at International College and Khalid Ibn Walid - Al Horj School in Beirut (between 2009-2017). From 2011-2017 Halwani worked in Beirut as a theatre lighting designer, director, and writer. After working at Scenario Beirut on web-dramas for 3 years, Halwani wrote the mini-series RabihTV (2018), produced by Cinemoz and directed by Mohamed A. Berro (official selection at Series Mania Festival 2018). In 2019 Halwani earned his MA in Screenwriting from KinoEyes, an Erasmus+ joint Masters degree where completed his graduation short film BRUXA along with his dissertation on the contemporary TV anti-hero which was presented and published at AVANCA | CINEMA in Portugal (https://doi.org/10.37390/avancacinema.2020.a182). In 2020, Fuad wrote the short film In The Time of Revolution, winner of the Short Film Platform grant from the Sharjah Art Foundation (UAE). With supported projects currently in development in Lebanon and the MENA region, Halwani is a freelance scriptwriter/media producer and PhD in Media Arts candidate at Lusofona University currently residing between Lisbon and Beirut.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Fuad Halwani

Citation names

  • Halwani, Fuad

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
0B15-AD2B-DAFE

Telephones

Mobile phone
  • (+961) 78803627 (Personal)
  • (+351) 910243595 (Personal)

Addresses

  • Praça Afrânio Peixoto 8, 1000-265, Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal (Personal)

Websites

Knowledge fields

  • Humanities - Arts - Studies on Film, Radio and Television

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Arab (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2020/10/15 - 2023/07/15
Ongoing
 Doutoramento em Arte dos Media (Doutoramento)
Major in Arte dos Media
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias Escola de Comunicação Arquitectura Artes e Tecnologias da Informação, Portugal
"Podcasting in Media Education: Applying Storytelling and Transmedia Techniques in Aural Narratives " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
2017/09/06 - 2019/06/30
Concluded
 Kino-Eyes European Movie Masters (An Erasmus+ Joint Masters) (Mestrado)
Major in Scriptwriting
Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal
"The Trickster in Serial TV: An Anti-hero of Postmodern Mythologies" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Masters of Arts
2007/09/01 - 2011/06/30
Concluded
 Bachelor of Arts (BA) (Bachelor)
Major in Communication Arts: Radio/TV/Film
Lebanese American University, Lebanon
Affiliation

Positions / Appointments

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2011 - 2017 Rector International College, Lebanon, Lebanon
2009 - 2016 Rector Khalid Bin Walid - Al Horj School, Lebanon
Al Makassed Foundation, Lebanon

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/04/01 - 2021/06/30 Head of Development Cinemoz, Lebanon
Cinemoz, Lebanon
2014 - 2017 Screenwriting Collective Scenario Beirut, Lebanon
Projects

Grant

Designation Funders
2018/09/05 - Current TCA186: The Tarmac Years
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Scriptwriter
Doha Film Institute, Qatar
Ongoing
2018/06/03 - Current The Veil, a diptych film (script)
G18-C-08
Other
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Lebanon
Concluded
2023/08/09 - 2024/02/13 Expanded Memories
Fuad Halwani
Researcher
LUCA School of Arts vzw, Belgium

Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal

Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, Ireland
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference abstract
  1. Halwani, Fuad. "Al-Khayyam Quadrains - Episode 1: An Encounter Between Psychoanalysis and Sufism [Part 5 Excerpt: The 99 Archetypes of Allah]". Paper presented in IAMCR Online 2022 Communication Research in the Era of Neo-Globalisation: Reorientations, Challenges and Changing Contexts, Beijing, 2022.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Halwani, Fuad. "BROADCASTING IN RESISTANCE: Walter Benjamin’s Visions for the Future of Radio Through Podcasting". Paper presented in CIIA 2021: 8th International Congress for Audiovisual Researchers, Lisbon, 2021.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Halwani, Fuad. "Aurality and Mysticism in Parafictional Shadow Narratives: A Framework for the Creative Development of Al-Khayyam Quadrains (AKQ) Podcast Series". Paper presented in FilmEU Dublin Summit 2022, 2022.
Journal article
  1. Halwani, Fuad. "Narratives of Enfoldment: Multi-linear and Parafictional Storytelling in Media Art". International Journal of Film and Media Arts 7 2 (2022): 98-109. http://dx.doi.org/10.24140/ijfma.v7.n2.05.
    10.24140/ijfma.v7.n2.05
  2. Halwani, Fuad. "THE TRICKSTER IN SERIALIZED TELEVISION: AN ANTI-HERO OF POSTMODERN MYTHOLOGIES". Avanca Cinema Journal 2020 2020 (2020): https://doi.org/10.37390/avancacinema.2020.
    Open access • Published

Artistic / Performance

Program / Show
  1. Halwani, Fuad; Madupu, Tarun. 2023. "Prologue". MUQADDIMAT AL-KHAYYAM: Al-Khayyam Quadrains. Tawus.
  2. 2022. Cinematheque Beirut Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/67Lxu7ZV65Bnlqu6Rr3QwC?si=736e885f43da4656. Metropolis Foundation.
  3. Halwani, Fuad; Mohamed A. Berro. 2018. RabihTV: RabihTV. Cinemoz.com.
Script
  1. Halwani, Fuad; Soha Shukayr. Once Upon A Revolution - short film. 2020.
  2. Halwani, Fuad. BRUXA - short film. 2019.
Short fiction
  1. Halwani, Fuad. 2024. "As Mãos Dela (Her Hands)". Lisbon, Portugal: Kino Eyes Movie Masters.
Video recording
  1. Halwani, Fuad; Diaa Lagan (Producer); Diaa Lagan (Director). 2024. GAZA.MP4. Self.
Visual artwork
  1. Halwani, Fuad; Madupu, Tarun. The Cave Nine Twenty-Six.
Activities

Consulting

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020/04/05 - 2022/04/04 Script consultant/ co-writer on a sci-fi full length TV series commissioned by Amazon. The series is created by Jad Dany Ali Hassan and Karim Safieddine and is currently in its early development stage. Cinemoz, Lebanon
Distinctions

Award

2017 Erasmus+ Scholarship for Kino-Eyes
Erasmus Plus, Belgium