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Rising Egyptian Star Yasmina El-Abd on Gen Z Female Empowerment in the Arab World and Reprising Her Role as Zeina in Netflix’s ‘Finding Ola’
Nick Vivarelli International Correspondent Rising Egyptian star Yasmina El-Abd, whose acting career has been on a roll since she was 12, stands as testimony to the fact that female empowerment is becoming a major theme in the Arab world’s film and TV output. Born in Switzerland to an Egyptian family, El-Abd took acting classes in London and landed her first acting job in the well-received short “The Shadow of Cairo” playing a 12-year-old named Maya who seeks vengeance for her mothers’ death by becoming a superhero of sorts who chases down sexual harassers in Cairo.
