Safaa Fathy (born July 17, 1958) is an Egyptian poet, documentary filmmaker, playwright, and essayist.
Fathy was born in Minya, Upper Egypt, on July 17, 1958.
Fathy participated in the student movement while in Egypt but later left the country and settled in Paris in 1981.
In 1987, she was an assistant director at the Deutsches Theater located in East Berlin.
[1] Currently she serves as director of programme at the International College of Philosophy in Paris.