E. Nina Rothe

Jury Member

E. Nina Rothe was born in Florence, Italy and grew up in New York City. She has written for Vogue Italia, Harper’s Bazaar Arabia, Cosmopolitan Middle East, The Art Newspaper, Empire Arabia, Tehelka, The National, Bespoke, Thrive Global, Firstpost and Flaunt Magazine. From 2011 to 2018 she contributed regularly to the Huffington Post US and its Italian edition, writing mainly about film and culture in the Middle East. Nina has moderated masterclasses and public talks with the likes of Ralph Fiennes, Meg Ryan, Annemarie Jacir, Haifaa al-Mansour, Andrei Konchalovsky and French photographer Brigitte Lacombe. In the Spring of 2021 she founded Moving Image Middle East — MIME.news.