Recent graduate from BA Graphic Communication Design at Central Saint Martins, London.
I utilise design as a means to explore myself, share my experiences and feelings as well as raise awareness to concepts that affect me. As an Austrian Egyptian citizen, my bicultural background has inspired me to experiment with social, cultural and political themes pertaining to both east and west.
Projects
- A Day in the Life of a Plastic Cup“There’s a Buddhist notion of the miraculous within the mundane, and I think we certainly live in a culture that encourages us not to look for that.” -Alan Ball, American Beauty A short film shot from the perspective of a plastic cup we are narrated about its mundane life and how it is left out in the world. The cup is personified and as the audience we feel empathy for it. We begin to feel worried, will it get crushed, will it survive?
- Sexless ( shot on Bolex camera)What is true liberation for both sexes? I believe our souls have no gender. They take on different bodies. Liberation symbolises the connection between body and soul. Gender as a whole has been heavily socially constructed, we place too much importance on genitalia and let that dictate people’s gender identity. I am not a woman because I have a vagina, I am a woman becauseI identify with most aspects of ‘womanhood’. This short film depicts a physical reconstruction of the proportions of the hu
- Maybe We are All The SameThis film encourages all women to unite with one another, in order to have honest and personal conversations about their intimate lives. Through the individual narratives/ voices of these Egyptian women one can see how lack of sexual education, shame and fear triggered by their societies have led to tragic consequences for them, such as life in oppression. The visual language investigates the representation of middle eastern women, through archive footage as well as my own. In response to the f
Work history
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Content CreatorArts Students' Union
- London, United KingdomFreelance
-visually documenting Arts Su programme
-producing, editing content (films, montage, layouts, images)
Cultural Associate InternTikTok
- London, United KingdomInternship
-plan, manage and producing content with the creative agency.
-Marketing activity and managing social media posts.
-Reporting on tasks: Metric obsessive, KPIs and results, and interpreting data.
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Skills
- Sound Editing
- Adobe After Effects
- Adobe Premiere Pro
- Abobe Illustrator
- 16mm Film
- Cinematography
- Curating Content
- Photographic Direction
- Art Directing
Education
Bachelor of Arts (BA) Central Saint Martins (UAL)
London, United Kingdom
Awards
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Book Awards: Most Creative StudentAmerican International School Vienna