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Filmmaker · Egypt

Asma El Bakry

Died in 2015

Asma al-Bakri was born in Cairo on 28 October 1947 and grew up in Alexandria, where in 1970 she obtained a degree in French literature. From 1973 she was assistant to Youssef Chahine and Khairy Bishara, then made many documentaries, about twenty for the BBC. She directed three feature films between 1991 and 2003 and defended her country's heritage. She died in Cairo on 5 January 2015, of a heart attack according to elCinema.

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