Jehane Noujaim

Jehane Noujaim (Arabic چيهان نچيم; born May 17, 1974 in Cairo, Egypt) is an American director of documentary films. Her most famous works include Control Room, Startup.com and Pangea Day.

Life

Noujaim is the daughter of an Egyptian- Lebanese- Syrian father and an American mother. She grew up in Kuwait and Cairo and train to Boston in 1990.

She attended the prestigious Milton Academy ( degree in 1992 ) and then studied at Harvard University Fine Arts and Philosophy. Even before her magna cum laude Noujaim won a scholarship in 1996, with whom she made the Arab film Mokattam, a garbage -collecting village near Cairo.

She began working for MTV and then turned Startup.com together with Pennebaker Hegedus Films. The film won several awards including the DGA and IDA Awards for best documentary.

Her film Control Room documents the U.S. Central Command and its relations with Al Jazeera and other mass media reported about the invasion of Iraq in 2003. 2013 appeared The Square of the Revolution in Egypt in 2011.