Ibrahim El-Batout was born in Port Said, Egypt. He graduated from the American University in Cairo in 1985, majoring in physics. El-Batout’s infatuation with the camera started in the Video Cairo Production House. Later, he worked for a year at the British television station TV-Am, located in Cyprus. Since then, he has worked as a director, producer and cameraman, capturing stories mainly about human loss, suffering, and displacement since 1987, and has also directed numerous documentaries for international TV channels, such as ZDF (Germany), TBS (Japan) and ARTE (France). His documentary work has received many international awards, including the Axel Springer Award in Germany (1994 and 2000) and the Direct Marketing Association’s coveted ECHO award (1996). El-Batout stepped into the world of fiction to make the feature film Ithaki (2005).

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