Jawal Nga

Jawal Nga

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Jawal Nga was raised in Tripoli, Libya and London. He graduated from New York University's Tisch School of Arts in 1996.

In 2004, Nga produced director Ira Sach's "Forty Shades of Blue." The following year the film won the Sundance Film Festival's Grand Jury Prize. In 2006 Nga and Sachs again worked together on the period drama, "Married Life." It will be released in 2007.

He is the executive producer of the Allen Ginsberg documentary "HOWL," for directors Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman.

Nga is developing adaptations of Sigrid Nunez's "The Last of Her Kind," Kevin Canty's "Into The Great Wide Open" and Michael Ignatieff's "Charlie Johnson In The Flames."

Blog Entries by Jawal Nga

Potty Talk

Posted August 29, 2007 | 07:00 PM (EST)


It has come to light that the Republican Senator from Idaho was arrested in June for "lewd conduct" at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport.

People, people, people! "Lewd behavior"?! The truth of what went on couldn't be farther from what Senator Craig has been accused of.

In the...

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My Libya, 'Tis of Thee

Posted July 30, 2007 | 12:34 PM (EST)


The theme of my 7th birthday party was Superman. The icing on my cake was red, white, blue and yellow. A dozen kids played games, ate spaghetti and wore cone hats with those elastic straps that fit under your chin. The party started at 1pm.

About an hour into the...

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"I Hate This River"

Posted July 23, 2007 | 03:16 PM (EST)


My brother Jehad is a photojournalist who has spent time in Iraq since the war started in 2003. His phone calls and emails from the field are often harrowing and sometimes deeply saddening. A story he told me recently stands out for its simplicity and lack of a single...

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Like Obama, Like Me

Posted July 17, 2007 | 11:20 AM (EST)


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

The following is a transcript from the press conference this afternoon when I officially endorsed Barak Obama as the Democratic candidate in 2008:

I'd like to thank everyone for coming to my apartment today. Unfortunately the Double Babylon Grand...

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Are You There God? It's Me, Jawal

Posted July 11, 2007 | 05:00 PM (EST)


Brooklyn.

Tuesday.

July 2007.

As another prom season fades from memory I recall, with much the same fondness as an ingrown toenail, my own prom...

London.

Sunday.

May 1990.

I don't want to be here.

Home.

I wish I were home.

I used to want to be here....

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