Visual Storyteller telling stories of those on the margins, while challenging assumptions and worldviews about the Middle-East and Africa.

Fatéma Niazy is a multi-talented artist and academic. She is currently directing a documentary about Cairo’s urban & heritage demolition. She is also producing a film about an Egyptian artist exploring her past and Egyptian history. She edits lectures for the Barakat Trust. On the side, she designed and refurbished two apartments in Downtown Cairo and manages them as Airbnbs. She worked for TRT World’s documentary unit and on the Panorama of the European Film Festival. She completed an MA in Ethnographic and Documentary Film at UCL in 2017. Her graduation project was a short documentary set in Cairo and Fes about the transmission of spiritual knowledge in Sufi Lodges and the relationship between food and spirituality which was screened at FIFEQ. Prior to that, she worked as a researcher at the Access to Knowledge for Development centre at the American University in Cairo and as a legal advisor to asylum seekers. In 2014, she published an article titled: “The Revolution of Form": Art and the Uprising”as part of an edited volume titled “Revolution as a Process: The Case of the Egyptian Uprising . She presented the book in Vienna, Innsbruck and Cairo. In her free time, she illustrates for herself and other initiatives such as Tayyib Society where she published an organic farms in Cairo guide.