Nahed Nasrallah

Jury Member

Nahed Nasrallah attended the Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule Kairo (DEO) and graduated in 1974. She then earned her bachelor’s degree from the Cairo University Faculty of Economics and Political Science in 1979. Pursuing her passion for fashion, Nasrallah completed her studies in fashion drawing at the Chambre Syndicale de Couture in 1991. She started her artistic career as co-designer of costumes for The Sixth Day (1986) by legendary director Youssef Chahine. Nasrallah won awards from the Cairo Film Society for her work on Mercedes (1993), The Emigrant (1994), Destiny (1997), The Blue Elephant (2014), as well as the South African M-Net awards for her work on Mercedes, The Emigrant and Destiny. On the social development front, Nasrallah participated in creating an income generating project for women in Helwan— an industrial city south of Cairo—based on developing their skills and designs in crochet patchwork from 1993 to 1999.

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