Screenwriter, Director, Producer, Founder of Assyouti Productions. Currently in mid-development of the crime thriller Day of Friday the Animal. Previous films include: Trahison (32 mins, Switzerland, 2016); 1 ÷ 2 (15 mins, 2016); I Want to Kill the Jackass (19 min, Egypt, 2005). 13 TV documentaries (7 X 52 minutes; 6 X 26 minutes) produced by Hot Spot Films (Dubai) for Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel, filmed in Ghana, Malaysia, Singapore & Switzerland. Unidentified Female Object (UFO, 90 mins, 2006, unfinished). Was Assistant Director to Mohamed Khan in Youm Har Giddan (A Very Hot Day, 1994) & Mr. Karate (1993). Affiliate professor of Film Studies, the American University in Cairo (AUC, 2000-2008) Department of Performing and Visual Arts, Film Program, teaching six sections every year of courses such as Introduction to Film, Film Theory & Criticism, History of Motion Pictures, Video Production, Screenplay Writing & Selected Topics. Acting Director of the Film Program_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_) Recruiting instructors & supervising the teaching process. Lecturer & Instructor of Film Directing_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_) Academy of Cinema Arts & Technology, Raafat El-Mihi aka Studio Galal: co-teaching film directing with Osama Fawzi. Film Critic at Al-Ahram Weekly Egyptian English language newspaper 1993-2008. Worked in the administration of several international film festivals_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_) Ismailia, Alexandria, Cairo, Abu Dhabi (Middle East). Curated film festivals with critic Samir Farid through Cadre Film Society_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_). Speaker at World Leaders Forum, Columbia University, New York (2006). EDUCATION: PhD in Philosophy, The European Graduate School (EGS, Switzerland, 2023). Dissertation Hegels die Sache (selbst) on Hegel’s concept of freedom (Begriff der Freiheit) in Wissenschaft der Logik, supervised by Professor Mladen Dolar. Defense committee: Mladen Dolar, Slavoj Žižek & Alenka Zupančič (magna cum laude). MA in Philosophy, King’s College London (KCL, UK, 2014) Dissertation “Freedom as a Process Restoring Self-Identity in Hegel’s Absolute Idealism”. MA in English & Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo (AUC, 2001) Thesis Glass Splinter Realism, on formal parallels between the cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni & the literature of Italo Calvino. BSc in Physics (Electronics), American University in Cairo (AUC, 1993). Fluent in Arabic, Italian, English and French. Lives in Geneva, Switzerland.…Screenwriter, Director, Producer, Founder of Assyouti Productions. Currently in mid-development of the crime thriller Day of Friday the Animal. Previous films include: Trahison (32 mins, Switzerland, 2016); 1 ÷ 2 (15 mins, 2016); I Want to Kill the Jackass (19 min, Egypt, 2005). 13 TV documentaries (7 X 52 minutes; 6 X 26 minutes) produced by Hot Spot Films (Dubai) for Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel, filmed in Ghana, Malaysia, Singapore & Switzerland. Unidentified Female Object (UFO, 90 mins, 2006, unfinished). Was Assistant Director to Mohamed Khan in Youm Har Giddan (A Very Hot Day, 1994) & Mr. Karate (1993). Affiliate professor of Film Studies, the American University in Cairo (AUC, 2000-2008) Department of Performing and Visual Arts, Film Program, teaching six sections every year of courses such as Introduction to Film, Film Theory & Criticism, History of Motion Pictures, Video Production, Screenplay Writing & Selected Topics. Acting Director of the Film Program_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_) Recruiting instructors & supervising the teaching process. Lecturer & Instructor of Film Directing_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_) Academy of Cinema Arts & Technology, Raafat El-Mihi aka Studio Galal: co-teaching film directing with Osama Fawzi. Film Critic at Al-Ahram Weekly Egyptian English language newspaper 1993-2008. Worked in the administration of several international film festivals_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_) Ismailia, Alexandria, Cairo, Abu Dhabi (Middle East). Curated film festivals with critic Samir Farid through Cadre Film Society_Phone details not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_). Speaker at World Leaders Forum, Columbia University, New York (2006). EDUCATION: PhD in Philosophy, The European Graduate School (EGS, Switzerland, 2023). Dissertation Hegels die Sache (selbst) on Hegel’s concept of freedom (Begriff der Freiheit) in Wissenschaft der Logik, supervised by Professor Mladen Dolar. Defense committee: Mladen Dolar, Slavoj Žižek & Alenka Zupančič (magna cum laude). MA in Philosophy, King’s College London (KCL, UK, 2014) Dissertation “Freedom as a Process Restoring Self-Identity in Hegel’s Absolute Idealism”. MA in English & Comparative Literature, American University in Cairo (AUC, 2001) Thesis Glass Splinter Realism, on formal parallels between the cinema of Michelangelo Antonioni & the literature of Italo Calvino. BSc in Physics (Electronics), American University in Cairo (AUC, 1993). Fluent in Arabic, Italian, English and French. Lives in Geneva, Switzerland.WWWW…