Sara Shaarawi

[1] Shaarawi was born in 1989, raised in Cairo and settled in Scotland after studying there.

While at the University of Edinburgh in 2011 Shaarawi began working with David Greig on a series of Arab plays to be performed at Oran Mor as part of an Arab Spring season.

[8] Other projects include a Cairene adaptation of Alasdair Gray's 1982, Janine with Henry Bell.

[10] As a producer Shaarawi is known for her work with the Arab Arts Focus, both in organising the largest Arab Arts Festival to come to the Edinburgh Fringe,[11] and as the host of its nightly cabaret, Chill Habibi.

[12] Shaarawi is a founder member of The Workers Theatre,[13] and produces Megaphone, a crowdfunded residency for artists of colour in Scotland.