Diana Allan

Diana ALLAN is an filmmaker and anthropologist at McGill University and a graduate from Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab. She co-directs the Critical Media Lab at McGill and is the co-founder of the Nakba Archive, which has documented histories of the 1948 expulsion of Palestinians in Lebanon. Her books include Refugees of the Revolution: Experiences of Palestinian Exile (2014) and Voices of the Nakba: A Living History of Palestine (2021). She holds a Canada Research Chair in the anthropology of living archives.

Filmography

(all short) Still Life (2007), Fire Under Ash (2009),Terrace of the Sea (2009), So Dear, So Lovely (2018), Partition (2024)