Biographies: Mona Assaad - Director

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An Egyptian director, born in 1956. She studied medicine at the university, and entered the field of cinema when she worked with the medical support team in the movie Adieu Bonaparte, directed by Youssef Chahine, after which she worked as an assistant director with Yousry Nasrallah and Radwan El Kashef, and also worked in the Elixir Company, which took over Studio Misr, as an executive producer of documentary films, and from that work experience she was inspired to make her first documentary film In Studio Misr.