Sally el hosaini biography templates

Welsh-Egyptian film director and screenwriter

Sally El-Hosaini (Arabic: سالى الحسينى[ˈsæːli(ʔe)lħoˈseːni]) is a Welsh-Egyptian BAFTA nominated film director and screenwriter.

Background

El-Hosaini was born in Swansea, Wales, of Egyptian and Welsh parentage, and raised in Cairo, Egypt.^[1][2]

El-Hosaini completed her high school education at Atlantic College, one of the United World Colleges, in Wales.

She went on to read Arabic with Middle Eastern Studies at Durham University. ^{[citation needed]}

Before making films she taught English literature at a girls' school in Sana'a, Yemen, and worked for Amnesty International.^[3]

She is a long-time resident of Hackney, London.^[4]

Career

El Hosaini was a trainee to the late renegade theatre director, John Sichel.^[1] She began her career working on Middle East documentaries and then moved to independent feature films, where she wa