Khalid Abdalla Author & Translator

Khalid Abdalla is an actor, producer, writer and filmmaker. Nowhere is his first play. He is known most notably for his performances in The Crown as Dodi Fayed, Marc Forster’s The Kite Runner, and in the Paul Greengrass features United 93 and Green Zone. He produced and starred in the Egyptian feature In the Last Days of the City, directed by Tamer El Said, and in Tala Hadid’s The Narrow Frame of Midnight, and appears in Jehane Noujaim’s Oscar-nominated documentary about the 2011 Egyptian revolution The Square. His next role was in a remake of The Day of the Jackal; and he performed in Mnemonic with Theatre de Complicité at The National Theatre. Khalid is a founding member of three cultural initiatives in Cairo—Cimatheque, Zero Production and Mosireen. He is also an Honorary Fellow of Queens’ College Cambridge. Brought up in the UK to Egyptian parents, Cairo and London are his two cities.