Sondos Shabayek
Sondos Shabayek is a writer, filmmaker, scriptwriter and director. She worked as the Director of The BuSSy project, a performing arts project that documents gender based stories and presents them on stage. She has over 10 years of experience in facilitating storytelling workshops, documenting personal narratives and directing public performances. She is also the Founder & Director of Tahrir Monologues, a performance of true stories from Egypt’s revolution. She wrote and directed award winning Girl, a short film about harassment in Cairo. She also wrote The night before, a short film about Female genital mutilation (FGM). Prior to her work in theater and film, she studied Mass communication and broadcasting and she worked for more than 6 years as journalist and editor. Her journalistic work focused on exploring, exposing and discussing social taboos in Egyptian society.