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When she does just that, the final act of defiance elicits a catastrophic response from her surviving family members.

On his deathbed, her father’s last wish is for his favorite song, “Sinnerman” by Nina Simone, to be played at his funeral instead of the traditional suras of the Koran. The more oppressive the country became, the more drugs and anonymous sex she had, fueling the resentment directed at her daily by the same men who would spend the night with her.Īs the war dies down, she begins to incur the consequences of her lifestyle. She spent her adolescence defying death in Beirut nightclubs as bombs fell across the city. Raised in 1970s Lebanon on Charles Baudelaire, A Clockwork Orange, and fine Bordeaux, Darina Al-Joundi was encouraged by her unconventional father to defy all taboos. in this unique” memoir ( Publishers Weekly). Her latest movie, Un homme perdu, by Daniel Arbid, was presented at the Director’s Fortnight of the 2007 Cannes Festival.The Homeland actress’s “recollections of her unconventional youth in war-torn Beirut are heartbreaking yet humorous . . .

The play caused a sensation at the Avignon festival, where it was hailed by critics all over France. She left Beirut at thirty for Paris, where she wrote and performed Le jour où Nina Simone a cessé de chanter for the theater. She began her acting career at age eight with Lebanese television. ) DARINA AL-JOUNDI was born in Lebanon in 1968 to a Shiite Lebanese mother and a secular Syrian father. Her latest movie, Un homme perdu, by Daniel Arbid, was presented at the Director’s Fortnight of the 2007 Cannes Festival.

DARINA AL-JOUNDI was born in Lebanon in 1968 to a Shiite Lebanese mother and a secular Syrian father.