Biography

Jeannette Rizk grew up in Egypt and attended the German School in Cairo.  Afterward she obtained a B.A. in anthropology from a small liberal arts college in Chicago.  Post-college, Jeannette worked in refugee resettlement for a year before returning to Cairo to attend AUC. There she produced her first documentary, ‘Conversations in Cairo’, for her M.A. thesis in anthropology in 2006. She went on to work in the social development and film industry for two years, and thereafter spent another two years working for an EU ecotourism project based in St. Catherine.  She is now back in Cairo working for the German Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and still enjoys making films when she has the opportunity.