The Man Who Sold His Skin

Nasser Yassin is a Lebanese Associate Professor of Policy and Planning at the Health Management & Policy Department at the American University of Beirut (AUB). He was the Director of Research of the Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs between 2014-2020 & served as the Institute’s Interim Director in 2019-2020. He founded in 2020 the Lebanon Crisis Observatory to track the repercussions of the crises & to provide evidence and systematic analysis of various facets of the crises hitting the country. He co-chairs the AUB4Refugees Initiative that brings together faculty in AUB responding to refugee crises.
He holds a PhD from University College London (UCL), an MSc from London School of Economics (LSE), and an MSc and BSc from the AUB. His research and practice interests are in development planning and policymaking in fragile and transition states. He researches and works on policy and social innovation especially in areas of refugee, youth & health policies and programs. He is author of more than 50 internationally published peer-reviewed articles and books. His work on Syrian refugee crisis has been featured in many media channels including Al-Jazeera, BBC, The Economist, New York Times, and Deutsche Welle – among others. Specialties: Policy analysis; Strategic Planning for the public sector, Development Planning in Countries in Transition; Refugee Policy; Social Policy; Programme and Outcome Evaluation.

Kaouther Ben Hania is Tunisian director. She studied cinema in Tunisia and then in Paris-Femis and la Sorbonne. Her previous film Beauty and the Dogs, premiered at Cannes Film Festival official selection “Un Certain Regard” in 2017, won the Best Sound Creation Award and was distributed in many countries.
Challat of Tunis, her first feature, opened the ACID section at Cannes Film Festival 2014 and was widely distributed.
Her second documentary Zaineb Hates the Snow premiered at Locarno Film Festival 2016 and won several awards.
Imams go to School, her first documentary premiered at IDFA 2010. She also directed several shorts, including Wooden Hand (2013) and Sheikh’s Watermelons (2018) which had a long and successful run on the international festival circuit.
The Man Who Sold His Skin is her latest feature film.

Harry Bellet is a French art critic and writer. He studied art history before working for the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence. Since 1998, he has been a journalist to the cultural service at Le Monde newspaper. Apart from the many exhibition catalogs, he has published various books, including three detective novels and three historical novels centered around the painter Hans Holbein, Les Aventures extravagantes de Jean Jambecreuse, artiste et bourgeois de Bâle (2013), Les Aventures extravagantes de Jean Jambecreuse, au temps de la révolte des Rustauds (2018) and Les Aventures extravagantes de Jean Jambecreuse, au pays de Barbe-Bleue (2021).