Mona Qattan

An Egyptian actress of Palestinian origin. She was born in the city of Haifa, and immigrated with her mother, the writer and journalist for Al-Ahram newspaper, Jacqueline Khoury, when she was still in her second year following the United Nations decision to partition Palestine. She lived childhood with her family, and later enrolled in a boarding school in England. Then she returned again to Egypt to live with her mother, which helped her get to know the poet and cartoonist Salah Jaheen, whom she married in 1967, and they had one daughter, (Samia Jaheen), artist and political activist. She participated in many cinematic and television works, the most famous of which are (Take Care of Zuzu), which was written by Jaheen, (Amira, My Love, Anna) and (Al-Karnak). She also participated in the series (Al-Ayyam, Zizinia).