Belal Fadl

Belal Fadl (Arabic: بلال فضل) (born 1974) is an Egyptian screenplay writer, journalist and a column writer. He was born and raised in Cairo, Egypt, but has Alexandrian roots.^[1] Fadl graduated from Cairo University's Faculty of Mass Communication with excellent grades and honours. He began his career as a journalist at Rose al-Yūsuf then became a co-founder and secretary at Al-Dustour, before eventually joining Al-Masry Al-Youm to write his column Istibaha^[2] and becoming one of the most important columnists in Egypt.

In 2013, Fadl and Amr Sleem [ar; arz] created El-Maasara,^[3] which was published by Al-Shorouk^[4] newspaper. It was a weekly publication that sarcastically described the current events in Egypt. In 2001, his first script was made into the movie Thieves in KG2 which was directed by Sandra Nashaat. He wrote 18 movies, most of which topped the Egyptian box office.