Taghrid Abouelhassan

An Egyptian writer and film director, she studied cinema in the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and the American University in Cairo. She wrote and directed the feature film “Snow White,” a screenplay that won two awards from the Cairo Film Festival and is supported by the Royal Film Commission of Jordan and the Writers Guild of America. Her film, “The Table of the Most Merciful,” written and directed by her, won support from UNESCO, the European Union, and the United Nations to support women and producers, with Jordanian participation from the Royal Film Commission for the feature film, “Their Films.” Before traveling to the United States to study cinema, she worked as an assistant director and second unit director on several Egyptian films, including Ibrahim Al-Abyad, The Yacoubian Building, and several other drama series.