Assyouti

Assyouti is a writer, director, producer. He established Assyouti Productions in Cairo in 2017. His academic background is in film, literature and philosophy. For many years he worked as documentary filmmaker, lecturer on film studies and film critic. In 1992 and 1993 worked as assistant director to the late Mohamed Khan in two feature films Mr. Karate & Youm har giddan (A Very Hot Day). Between 1994 to 2007 he worked as film critic at Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper. In 2000 finished an MA dissertation on Michelangelo Antonioni & Italo Calvino at the Literature Department of the American University in Cairo (AUC). In 2004 co-taught film directing with late director Osama Fawzi at Galal Studio Academy. Between 2000 and 2008 he was affiliate professor of film studies at the American University in Cairo (AUC), teaching 6 courses each year, on filmmaking, film history, film theory and world cinema. Between 2008-10 he was a director and line producer of 13 documentaries (26 or 52 minutes) for Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel, filmed in Ghana, Malaysia & Singapore. In 2014 finished an MA dissertation on Hegel at King's College London (KCL). In 2016, produced and directed two short films in Geneva. Since 2015 working on a PhD dissertation on Hegel's idea of freedom at the European Graduate School (EGS) under supervision of Mladen Dolar and Slavoj Zizek. In 2015 at EGS attended seminars with Terrence Malick, Wim Wenders, Jean-Luc Nancy and others. Since 2015, writing, directing, producing through Assyouti Productions, Cairo, the feature film Day of Friday the Animal.