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Dina Shihabi is a Saudi Arabian actress working in the United States. Dina Shihabi was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and was raised in Saudi Arabia, Beirut, and Dubai. She had started dance classes at age 6, and at 13 she began taking dance lessons from Sharmilla Kamte, a renowned dance teacher at the Dubai Community Theatre and Arts Centre Chaloub Studio, known as the "dancing queen" of the United Arab Emirates. She became a member of her modern professional dance team.
In Dubai she attended Al Mawakeb School, Emirates International School, and Dubai American Academy. Shihabi performed in numerous school plays, and was encouraged by her teacher, Nancy Mock, to pursue an Acting career.
At age 18, Dina moved to New York City in 2007 and began pursuing a career in acting; this became a full-time profession for her in 2010. In 2011, she was accepted at both Juilliard and The graduate Acting Program at NYU Tisch School for the Arts. Although Dina did not complete a 4 year Bachelor's degree (she attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, an Acting Conservatory from 2008 to 2010), NYU waived the requirement of a Bachelor's degree and she graduated with her MFA in 2014. She is the first Middle East-born woman to be accepted to both the Juilliard and NYU Graduate Acting programs.- Osama bin Laden was the founding General Emir and NATO-FVEY designated criminal mastermind behind his militarist forces under the umbrella of Al-Qaeda, and the world's most sought-after militiaman since the 1998 raids on U.S. embassies in parts of East Africa accused by FBI at him, and then accused of single-handedly masterminding series-of-suicide-aircraft-piracies-colloquially-dubbed-as September 11 attacks by the CIA. He claimed indirect-liability for instigating suicide-hijackers in an exclusive interview later on but nevertheless, refuted the charges of being the mastermind by CIA & others. He used to release tapes endorsing militant acts by framing them as retaliatory, self-defense resistance-operations. Almost 10 years after the execution of 9/11 operation, on a late May 1, 2011 evening according to North American Eastern Daylight Time, 44th US President Barack Obama made an announcement that Osama had been summary-executed by US commandos in a hideout under a covert-op codenamed Operation Neptune Spear with OPTASK (operation task) to assassinate him.
- Mohammad Bin Salman was born on 31 August 1985 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- Mila is Al-Zahrani is a Saudi actress who started her artistic career in 2017. She did several TV series and feature films. Mila was nominated at the Venice Film Festival for the official award for her role in the movie "The Perfect Candidate" in 2019, in addition to her participation in some Saudi plays. She is considered one of the most prominent Saudi actresses for the year 2021. She is known for Boxing Girls (2018), The Fate Hotel (2021), and Cello (2022).
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Amr Salama has written and directed multiple award winning feature films.
On A Day Like Today (2008) Asmaa (2011) Excuse My French (2014) Made In Egypt (2014) Sheikh Jackson (2017)
Co-directed the documentary, Tahrir 2011: The Good, The Bad & The Politician, winner of the UNESCO award at the Venice Film Festival and numerous other international awards.
Directed and supervised the content of the first season of the Arabic version of the international TV show, Saturday Night Live.
Directed the hit Arabic Egyptian drama 'Tayea'.
Created, wrote, produced and directed the 1st Netflix original show in Egypt 'Paranormal' which was listed by Variety as one of the best international shows in 2020.
In 2021, co-wrote and directed the film Extracurricular and also co-produced and co-directed the show Bimbo for Shahid VIP.- Actor
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Momo Dione was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is of Guinean and Senegalese descent. His father is a Guinean diplomat and his mother is an entrepreneur specializing in event production and African fashion. Before reaching high school, the actor/filmmaker had already seen a great deal of the world. He came to the United States in 1993 when his father was appointed to the Guinea mission in New York City. While doing plays in elementary school on Roosevelt Island, he realized that acting was his true passion. He began auditioning for projects while in high school. But playing basketball and football, being class president for three consecutive terms, prom king, and carrying a heavy academic load left him with little time to follow his heart. He graduated from Yonkers International Baccalaureate High School in 2004. He has since been featured in plays, TV shows, commercials, music videos, student films, independent films, and feature films. Some of his credits are "Law & Order: Criminal Intent", "Across the Universe", "Notorious", the upcoming "Restless City" premiering at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival and several commercials. He is a graduate of the All Stars Project/Youth Onstage/Castillo Theater youth development acting programs. Momo was a member of the original cast and co-author of the All Stars Projects' original production of "Our City." He's also posed for paintings by Afro-American painter Kehinde Wiley. He is bi-coastal; living in Los Angeles and New York. Frequent travel is a way of life for Mohamed. He co-owns Caramel Cappuccino films, a production company that writes films that articulate relevant issues of life and relationship in under-served or under acknowledged communities with aims of producing them. He enjoys horseback riding, opera, Congolese soukous, sports, and anything that has to do with cinema. Dione is constantly auditioning and working on new projects in search of the role that will allow him to make his mark in the Hollywood and Broadway markets...and then the world.- Actor
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Nasser Al Qasabi was born on 28 November 1961 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is an actor and writer, known for Tash ma Tash (1994), Comma, Dot. (2015) and Lena's Date (2015). He is married to Badryah Al-Bishr. They have three children.- Actor
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Hisham Fageeh, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Actor, Producer, Writer
Fageeh is the co-producer and star of Saudi Arabia's submission to the Oscars for 2016's Best Foreign Film, "Barakah Meets Barakah" (now available on Netflix worldwide). His work has been written about by The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, BBC, Variety, among others.
Most-known for his 2013 viral video "No Woman, No Drive", Hisham started performing stand-up while working on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC.
During his Master's at Columbia University, he studied improvisational comedy at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater (UCBT). Also while procrastinating; he started a web series (Hisham's Weeklies) which propelled him into an Arabic stand-up scene in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia- where he now resides.
Previously held position of Head of Content at Telfaz11, a multi-channel network with 12 million subscribers and more than one billion views.
Follow him on social media, HishamFageeh.- Prince Alwaleed bin Talal was born on 7 March 1955 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Amaan Ahmad was born on 14 June 1983 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is a director and writer, known for Carnitapu (2021). He has been married to Sara Peluso since 7 November 2014. They have two children.- Producer
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Almotaz Aljefri is a film producer and director, earned his MFA in Producing from the American Film Institute. Prior to AFI, he founded Movitaz Entertainment based in Los Angeles and Saudi Arabia to develop, finance and provide full production services. With an international infrastructure, his company is dedicated to brokering content from Western media into the Middle East and vice versa, with the intent to make both cultures more interactive.- Actor
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Sami Tesfay was born on 9 February 1988 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is an actor, known for The Disappointments Room (2016), Hood Luck (2012) and The Devil's Dosh (2012).- King Fahd was born in 1921 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He died on 1 August 2005 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
- Natacha Basset was born on June 3, 2004 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. She is a bilingual actress (English/French) best known for playing Paloma Picasso in Genius - Picasso (2018) starring Antonio Banderas. She was also cast to play Young Taylor in New You (2018) and most recently Young Frankie in Love Type D (2018).
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Mansour Assad was born on 21 May 1996 in SA, Riyadh. He is a director and editor, known for Slave (2022), Soul: Rooh (2019) and Acceptance Land (2021).- Actor
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Writer, educator and podcaster, Hunter Maats is known for his educational work in The Straight-A Conspiracy which translates the latest neuroscience and psychology into a form that disgruntled teenagers can appreciate and enjoy. He has continued this work bridging the worlds of education and entertainment by acting as a science consultant on various TV shows and feature films. He develops original content to bring history, economics and politics out of dry, dusty books to life as entertaining dramas and comedy.- Producer
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Maan B. is an active young Saudi Producer, Director and Actor who came to the US from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 2010 pursuing a college degree in filmmaking. In 2016 he got his bachelor's degree in filmmaking from the New York Film Academy in Hollywood. In 2014 Maan and his brother Talha were established the Knight of Arabia Pictures (KOA). The main purpose of KOA is to assist filmmaking students and independent filmmakers in producing high quality media, based on industry standards and providing resources to make any idea come to life. He has continuously been producing, line producing and/or managing productions that range from short films and commercials to web series and music videos and soon, feature films.
Maan and Talha B's Short film "The Scapegoat" has been selected in Dubai film festival in 2017. The movie "The Scapegoat" and "Film School Musical" also a movie by the B brothers have been accepted into Cannes film festival were Talha and Maan got invited to attend in May, 2018 sponsored by the Saudi Film Council. Also the two short films played in Russia as one of the event in 2018's World Cup.
Maan has also hosted two years in a row The Young Saudi Film Festival in Los Angeles 2017,2018 featured also his latest work those years. Maan also was invited to speak at Misk Talk as one of the events during the tour of His highness prince Mohammed bin Salman to the United States in 2018.
Maan has so many projects to be proud of, one of them is for the holy city of Mecca "Wahi" the first visual reality 360 video about Alharam targeting the non-Muslims so they can experience walking around the holy mosque.
In 2018 Maan & his brother Talha have had decided to return back to Saudi Arabia to take part of HH Prince Mohammed Bin Salman 2030 promising vision in the area of the film industry.
In 2020 Maan and his brother Yaser B. Co-Directed their first Saudi feature film entitled "Junoon" The movie was shot in Los Angeles and Jeddah and it will have its world premiere at The Red Sea International Film Festival 2021
Junoon will be released to theaters on October 27th, 2022- Location Management
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Kieran Cuddihy was born on 26 February 1978 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is an assistant director, known for The Count of Monte Cristo (2002), X2 (2003) and Dreamcatcher (2003).- Editor
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Saudi-German producer and director Fahmi Farahat graduated in 2006 from California State University, Fullerton with a degree in Radio, TV & Film. In the States, Farahat gained experience in different workflows including 16 and 35mm. He produced and directed many award winning films. He also served as an editor and Assistant Director on multiple independent feature films. In 2012, Farahat relocated to Saudi Arabia hopping to become a critical part of the Saudi and GCC Cinema movement. His work includes a number of award winning narratives and documentaries. Fahmi Farahat works as a production director for Saudi Aramco's Media Production Division, PR Department, Dhahran Saudi Arabia.- Actor
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Faisal Abdulwahab Al Ahmari is an Saudi Actor,
Faisal has had experiences on YouTube and social media since 2014.
he is satirist, and the presenter of Akher Ellyl Show in (2019-2020), a satirical news Show.
Faisal began his first satirical show in May 2018 Entitled Ama Baed Show, was uploaded to his YouTube Channel, The show mainly consisted of satirical documentary show.
He played the main character "Yahya" in the short film Zabargad (2022).- King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia was born on 1 August 1924 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was married to Alanoud Al Fayez. He died on 23 January 2015 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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Luke Shaw is a director and cinematographer based out of Los Angeles. He's known for his dark aesthetic and commitment to pushing the envelope. With a portfolio consisting primarily of music videos, he's now wading into the trenches of narrative filmmaking. While Luke is committed to leaving his own signature imprint on filmmaking, his inspiration stems from the likes of Tarantino and Guadagnino.- Producer
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Musab is a Saudi storyteller. He's producer, director and writer. In May 2012, He earned his bachelor's degree in Media "Radio & TV" from Saudi Arabia. In 2013, he moved to Hollywood to get a master's degree, and in May 2017 he earned his MFA in filmmaking. Musab has produced more than 20 short films, directed more than 12 short films, wrote 10 short films, and one feature screenplay.- Actor
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Screenwriter, and Palestinian,Jordanian human rights activist. . He has also held the position of General Manager of Al-Alamiah Advertisement Newspaper since July 2014. In the field of screenwriting, he wrote the series "Mawaqif Fireawnia ", which will be shown in 2022. He has a book entitled "The Origins of Criminology" in 2021. He holds a master's degree in law specializing in administrative law disputes in 2015 from "Ferhat Abbas Setif 1 University" in Algeria, and a Bachelor of Laws in 2012 from "An-Najah National University" in the same country.- Sultan Bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud was born on 30 December 1930 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He died on 22 October 2011 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.