Career
Was raised by a great moderate father, who has a great impact on her life, that might be of a contradicting nature, as he was a strict but lean father which makes a balanced raise, Islamic basics she had it from him by a golden spoon, which made her write to show the contradictions we Egyptians are facing in our life"son And she has become a controversial public figure in Egypt. She has received death threats from Islamic militants, and has in turn criticised those Islamists who view art as blasphemous.
Inas El Degheidy was born in Cairo, "one of eight children of a conservative, middle-class family".
Her father taught Arabic. She graduated from the Cinema Institute in 1975, and directed her first film Pardon Law in 1985.
Her upcoming movie First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Samt (Silence) will tackle the subject of a woman sexually abused by her father. The Egyptian Board of Censors has demanded that the script be modified to ensure that the father is portrayed as "mentally diseased and thus unrepresentative of the general Egyptian male figure.".
