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Arab Jury
Thamar Al Nimr |
Thamar Al Nimr, a BA in Information from Cairo University (1976), has held a number of positions with Jordan Television, the last of which still keeps her busy today. She has taken part in many media workshops, and media refresher sessions, especially on issues having to do with health and housing. She has also participated in a number of Radio and Television conferences and festivals. |
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Dr Hassan Habibi
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Dr Hassan Habibi, an academic, media man and specialist in language and communication skills, teaches at the University of King Hassan, and the Supreme Academy of Journalism and Communications in Casablanca. A former reporter with Radio Tangier in Paris, he has taken part in several seminars related to communications, and produced a number of television and radio programs. |
Khaled Al Daimil |
Khaled Al Daimi, a BA in Education from al Fateh University (1986), and a higher diploma in Information from Cairo University, has held several positions in the Libyan media, including establishing the Education Channel, and the Visual Radio Service of Tripoli. He has also served as a member of the jury panel at several radio and television festivals in Cairo and Tunis. |
Khalifa Al Mureikhi |
Khalifa Al Mureikhi is a familiar name on the Qatari drama scene, having acted in several productions in the 70s and 80s, after which he joined Qatar Television as a director of drama. An accomplished film director and scriptwriter, he graduated with a BA in cinema directing from Los Angeles University in 1999. Several of his works, which include: The White Balloons, The Appointment, The Land, and Lines Under the Sand, have won awards at film festivals in Bahrain, Tunis, and Amman. |
Diana Faris |
Diana Faris is a graduate in Arab literature, writer, director, and head of the children’s script group with the Syrian Cinema Institution. She has written many television dramas, one of which, Bread and Salt, won the 2003 Syrian Gold Award. She has also directed a number of cinema productions, as well as several children’s series. |
Ruwaida Al Jarrah |
Ruwaida Al Jarrah, a Syrian director, began her career with Syrian TV in 1962, climbing the ranks in the ensuing years. In addition to directing a number of dramatic, cultural, and leisure productions, such as Al Dalia, the Death of the Jasmine, The Weapons of Love and Hate, she’s also taken part in many Arab and international festivals and forums; and has written an impressive award-winning collection of drama and poetry that has been published by several magazines. |
Samir Farid |
Samir Farid, the chief editor of the Egyptian Cinema and Arts newspaper, has been writing for various Arabic and international journals since 1962, and has been a member of the jury for many cinema festivals, one of which was Torino in 2001. The founder of several Arab festivals, he is also the author of more than 50 books on film critique and cinema, such as The Guide to Arab Cinema, Cinema of the Children, and the History of Film Censorship. |
Ali Daher |
Ali Daher, a Lebanese native, graduated with a degree in human sciences, after which he attended several media courses held by the TEEM Group. A shareholder in the Lebanese Media Group, and a member of its board of directors, he went on to become head of programming for Al Manar television for 3 years, and its GM for 6 years. He has also taken part in many film and television festivals and media forums worldwide; and currently manages the Ibdaa media company in Beirut. |
Mahfouz Abdul Rahman |
Mahfouz, the author of many scripts for plays, television series and films, such as Al Qadisiya and Nasser 56, has chaired the panel of judges at the Alexandria cinema festival and the Rotterdam festival of Arabic films, and participated as a judge at several others, including the Kuwait theatre festival and the Feature film festival. He has also received several awards. Among them: the State Appreciation Trophy of 2003 and Best television writer of 2004. |
Mohammed Mohsen |
Mohammed, graduated from the University of Lebanon’s college of information, and went on to Britain where he received his MA and PhD in information studies from the University of Leicester. Starting his career in journalism, he became an advisor to Britain’s Channel 4, and is at present a full time professor with the college of information at his original alma mater in Lebanon. |
Mustapha Abu Ali |
Mustapha, was born in Jerusalem in 1940, and studied cinema in London, graduating in 1967. One of the founders of Palestinian cinema under the auspices of the PLO, and the Palestinian Cinema Association in Beirut in 1973, (re-established in Ramallah in 2004), he has written 4 screenplays and directed more than 30 films, for which he has won more than 14 awards, the most recent from the 2003 Ismailia Film Festival. |
Mai Masri |
Mai, a Palestinian filmmaker, and a graduate of San Francisco State University and UC Berkeley (USA), Mai has directed, shot and edited many award-winning films that have been broadcast on more than 90 television stations around the world. Along with her husband, filmmaker John Khalil Chamoun, she founded Nour productions whose films have won more than 46 international awards. |
Nour El Sherif |
Nour, a popular name in the Arab cinema world , began his career in theater before branching out into TV and films where he became one of the most renowned Arab actors and acted in hundreds of films, plays, and TV productions. In 1983, he received his first international award at the New Delhi Cinema Festival. At the Cannes Festival of 1997, Youssef Shahine received an honorary award for his film “Destiny” in which Nour played the main role: Ibn Rushd. |
Walid Abu Bakr |
Walid, Born in Palestine in 1938, and the holder of advanced university degrees in philosophy, Walid headed the culture sections of several Kuwaiti newspapers between 1961 and 1992, and was also the editor of the Palestinian magazine, The Word. He played a key role in the staging of a number of Arab film and theatre festivals, serving as a member on some of their jury panels. A member of many Arab literary associations, he has authored 26 books in such fields as fiction, plays, political and educational issues, and research and statistics. |
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