Ariella Azoulay is Academic Director of the Camera Obscura School of Art in Tel Aviv and teaches visual culture and critical theory at Bar-Ilan University. After graduating in Cinema and Literature from the University of Paris VIII in 1985, she studied Semiotics, Philosophy, and Museal Economy. Her publications include Death’s Showcase: The Power of Image in Contemporary Democracy (2001). She wrote and directed a trilogy of documentary films: A Sign from Heaven: a Film in 22 Letters Arranged in Alphabetical Order (1999), The Angel of History (2000), and Do not Open the Door (2001).