Biographies: Asmaa El Bakri - Director

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Asmaa El Bakri is an Egyptian director, screenwriter and producer, born in Cairo on October 28, 1947. She graduated from the French Department of the Faculty of Arts in 1970. She began her artistic career in 1973, working as an assistant to Egyptian directors, including Youssef Chahine and Khairy Bishara, and directed her first short film A Drop of Water (1979). She directed three feature films; Beggars and Nobles (1991), Concerto in Darb Saada (2000), and Violence and Irony (2003). Asmaa passed way in 2015 at the age of 68 after suffering a heart attack.