Fatma El Maadoul

Organizations: Cultural Institutions

PERSONAL INFORMATION


Writer and Director

Fatma El Maadoul

1948

CONTACT INFORMATION / PRIVATE


fatmaelmaadoul@yahoo.com

Education


BA, High Institute of Theater Arts, 1970.

languages


Arabic

English

COMPETENCES


Criticism

Writing Children's Books

Writing and Directing for Children's Theater

WORK HISTORY


Independent Writer and Director, 2009-Present.

Director, Department of Cultural Production, Ministry of Culture, 2007-2009.

Director, Art House for Folk and Performing Arts, Ministry of Culture, 2005-2007.

Honorary office and memberships


Member, National Council for Women.

Member, Supreme Council of Culture.

Member, International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY).

Productions and Works


Al-Hilm al-Wahid (The Only Dream), Nahdat Misr, 2007.

Hayat Radia (Radia's Life), Nahdat Misr, 2007.

Al-Nas al-Ba'ida (The Faraway People), Nahdat Misr, 2007.

AWARDS


First woman to become director of the Art House for Folk and Performing Arts.

First woman to become an undersecretary at the Ministry of Culture.

First Prize for Writing, Suzanne Mubarak Awards for Children's Literature, for Wadhifa li-mama (A Job for Mama), 2005.

Screenwriting Award, Cairo International Festival for Children's Cinema, for the script for Awlad al-qamr (Children of the Moon), 1999.

UNESCO Tolerance Award, for the book Khutut wa dawayir (Lines and Circles), 1999.