Sally El-Hosaini (Arabic: سالى الحسينى [ˈsæːli (ʔe)lħoˈseːni]) is a Welsh-Egyptian BAFTA nominated film director and screenwriter.
[citation needed] Before making films she taught English literature at a girls' school in Sana'a, Yemen, and worked for Amnesty International.
[1] She began her career working on Middle East documentaries and then moved to independent feature films, where she was a production coordinator for many years.
[5] She was the script editor/specialist researcher of the BAFTA and Emmy Award winning HBO Films/BBC Drama mini-series House of Saddam.
[12][13][14] It stars Fady Elsayed, BIFA-winning James Krishna Floyd and César Award nominated actor Saïd Taghmaoui.
[citation needed] In 2014 she was chosen by Danny Boyle to direct Babylon, the television series he co-created and produced with Jesse Armstrong for Channel 4 and SundanceTV.