About
Raed Rafei is a Lebanese multimedia journalist and filmmaker with over ten years of experience in the media world. Since 2004, he has worked as a reporter covering political, social and economic issues related to Lebanon and the Middle East for local and international publications including the Los Angeles Times, Zeit Online, Al-Ahram Weekly and the Daily Star. Rafei holds a Masters in Journalism from the City University of New York. He completed his degree in 2013 as a Fulbright scholar.
Rafei currently works as a freelance videographer, field producer and researcher for TV reports and documentaries for news websites and channels such as CNN, ZDF and the Global Post.
In 2012, he co-wrote and co-directed his first feature film, “74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle)”. The award-winning documentary was screened in many international film festivals such as Visions du Reel, Switzerland, DocLisboa, Portugal, RIDM-International Documentary Film Festival of Montreal and Filmfest Hamburg.