The Cairo Human Rights Film Festival

The Cairo Human Rights Film Festival (CHRFF) was launched in 2008 by Dalia Ziada, director
of Cairo Office of the American Islamic Congress to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights. CHRFF was open to the public and offered free films on
human rights topics from around the world.

The festival’s opening in 2008 marked one of the first ever human rights film series in the Middle
East region.

In 2010, Ziada launched a nation-wide campaign called “AB Human Rights” to educate kids
at primary schools and orphanage houses about human rights. On September 11th, 2009, Ziada
founded Fearless Fighter for Faith Freedom (5Fs) campaign for promoting religious freedom
and tolerance. Ziada dedicates her life to promoting women rights, freedom of expression, and
nonviolent action in her homeland, Egypt, and the whole Middle East.

dalia_ziadaDalia Ziada, Egyptian rights activist, blogger, laureate of Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean
Journalist Award, published writer and poet, joined the American Islamic Congress (AIC) at
the age of 25, as the founding director of its Middle East and North Africa bureau based in
Cairo, Egypt. Ziada dedicates her life to promoting women rights, freedom of expression, and
nonviolent action in her homeland, Egypt, and the whole Middle East.