Ruba Nadda is a writer, director and producer living in Toronto. Cairo Time is her second feature film that she has written and directed, preceded by Sabah (starring Arsinee Khanjian 2005); as well as 13 short films: Aadan (2004), Blue turning grey over you (1999), Black September (1999), I Would Suffer Cold Hands for You (1999), Laila (1999), Slut (1999), Damascus Nights (1998), The Wind Blows Towards Me Particularly (1998) So Far Gone (1998) Do Nothing (1997), Wet Heat Drifts Through the Afternoon (1997), Interstate Love Story (1997) and Lost Woman Story (1997).
Ruba attended New York’s prestigious Tisch School of the Arts in Film Production. She completed their summer program and upon her return to Toronto immediately began her prolific filmmaking career. Her 13 short films have been shown over 500 times in film festivals around the world. She has had over 20 retrospectives of her work shown in numerous cities, including: Princeton University, Rotterdam, Stockholm, Vienna, Wurzburg, Austin, San Francisco, Regina, Edmonton, Ottawa, and Toronto.
She is also a fiction writer, with short stories published in over 200 international journals, such as Riversedge Journal, West Wind Review 18th Anthology, The Sounds of Poetry, Blood & Aphorism, White Wall Review, Room of One's Own and Wascana Review.
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