✦ AHMED AWNY |

 is a Palestinian-Egyptian actor, Assistant Director, writer, and songwriter whose artistic path began unexpectedly with the independent film “STROUBIA”—a four-and-a-half-year journey that won at the Alexandria International Film Festival (2019). What started as coincidence became conviction: to make truthful art that lets people see themselves on screen.

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On TV, Awny’s presence grew through acclaimed dramas such as Hekayat Banat 3 (Girls’ Stories), Abou Gabal, Bahr (The Sea), Le‘bet El-Nesyan (The Game of Forgetting), Leh Laa? (Why Not?), Bena Etefaq (Between Us, an Agreement), Face and Back (Wesh w Dahar), and Awlad Al Shams.
In Awlad Al Shams (directed by Shady Abdel Salam), a human-centered social drama, the series resonated widely—rising to the top of trends in Ramadan 2025—and further cemented Awny’s commitment to meaningful storytelling. His early pivotal turn in Abou Gabal drew warm audience and critical notes for emotional clarity on screen.

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Beyond acting, Awny pursued direction: his first directing experience came as Assistant Director on Despite the Law (Barghm El-Qanoun) under Shady Abdel Salam—a demanding, formative shoot that stretched long hours, spanned 500+ locations, and included key sequences in Port Said. That crucible refined his craft and set up a stronger second AD experience on the film Al-Moftah (The Key) with Mazen Niazy. He also served as Assistant Director – Script & Dialogue, shaping performance beats and page-to-screen flow.

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As a writer, Awny published the satirical book “Technophobia” (Cairo International Book Fair, 2015)—a look at how social media re-writes our behaviors.
As a songwriter, he penned originals including “Colors of the Seventh Sky,” “Ana w Setti (My Grandmother and I)” (vocals Ramy Okasha), and “Bokra Ahlà (Tomorrow Will Be Better)”—works that carry his belief that art should touch, heal, and remember.

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Today, Ahmed Awny stands as one of the sincere emerging voices of his generation—Palestinian-Egyptian at heart, Egyptian on the scene—pursuing cinema, television, radio, and music with the same promise: to turn small ideas into stories that move us all.