Saeed Taji Farouky is a Palestinian-British filmmaker and photographer who has been documenting human rights issues in the Middle East and North Africa for over 15 years.
He founded the production company, Tourist With A Typewriter Ltd in 2004, and has since produced, directed and filmed over a dozen long and short form documentary and fiction films. His work have been broadcast on Channel 4, Al-Jazeera English and Candian Broadcasting Corportation, amongst others, and his 2007 documentary Tunnel Trade - filmed for Al-Jazeera English - was nominated for the Jacek Kuron award at Watch Docs 2008 and the Noor Award in San Francisco's 2009 Arab Film Festival.
His portfolio of images from Western Sahara was recently longlisted for the 2009 Nikon Project Assistance Award, and his theatre script Hard Time Killing Floor won the first Angel Theatre New Writer award and was given a public reading at the Hackney Empire.
He is currently writing his next theatre script and is in pre-production on a series of films on UK prisoners of Guantanamo Bay.

Leila Segal is a Jewish writer and photographer, specialising in human rights and the Middle East. Over the last three years she has led the Jaffa Photography Project – using narrative and image to help and Arab and Jewish teenagers in the Israeli city of Jaffa talk to each other about their lives.
In London, she works with refugees, and is editor of Visible, a book of prose and poetry by young arrivals to the UK. She has taught creative writing to trafficked women and sex workers (with charity PhotoVoice) and was a founder member of Across the Divide, a Muslim-Jewish writers’ group.
Her writing has been published in Exiled Ink, Square Peg, Norman Geras and Jewcy, and her collection of short stories, Leaving Cuba, will be published by Lubin & Kleyer later this year. Leila is a barrister, and edits the legal journal Education Law Update.