Maggie Morgan

Biography

Maggie Morgan is an Egyptian filmmaker, writer and teacher. Her first feature film, Asham, did a wide festival tour and was released in Egyptian cinemas in June 2013. The film received prizes for Best Director and Best Editor in the Malmo Arab Film Festival in Sweden 2013, the Special Jury Mention at the Festival International des Films D'Orient in Geneva, among others. She directed her first documentary, The Picture in 2002 and it was shown on various Arab television channels. In 2006, she wrote and directed a medium length fiction, Minhom Feehom From Within: Her Stories, which was released in March 2007. In 2017, she wrote and directed two short films, February 14 and A Live Match on Skype and she completed a documentary, Draz, on the life and works of Azhar scholar Mohamed Abdalla Draz, which has not been released. In 2018, she directed a social media campaign for women's rights, Regala Sanad" which got more than 1.8 million views on Facebook. In 2021, she completed the creative documentary, From Meir, To Meir, which premiered at the Aswan International Women's Film Festival where it received an award. She lives in Cairo where writes and directs films and teaches film as adjunct professor of practice in the film unit at the American University in Cairo since 2006. She is working on her second fiction feature Leila and I, and won two prizes for film development at the Cairo Film Connection of 2019.