CAIRO: Egypt granted citizenship yesterday to one of its most renowned filmmakers, Mohamed Khan, a British national born to an Egyptian mother and a Pakistani father, the president’s office said.
Egyptian women married to foreigners were not allowed to pass on their citizenship to their children prior to a 2004 amendment to the nationality law.
Khan has been one of Egypt’s leading film directors since the 1980s, making a string of movies tackling social issues that have often revolved around female central characters.
His latest film, Factory Girl, won two awards at the 2013 Dubai International Film Festival and went on release in Cairo yesterday.
AFP
