Morad, an Egyptian filmmaker, was born in Cairo. He has worked as an assistant director in several independent films; he collaborated as an executive director on the feature film "Souad" - official selection at the Cannes Film Festival 2020 and at the Berlinale. He wrote and directed two short films "Henet Ward" and "What we don't know about Mariam"; both had their world premiere in Clermont-Ferrand and were selected in other major festivals (BFI London - Palm Springs - Busan - Thessaloniki - Stockholm - Karlovy Vary - FIFF Namur - Cinemed Montpellier - Shanghai - Durban - EL Gouna - Cairo) and won more than 30 international awards.