Rasha Azab is an Egyptian journalist, activist, and writer. She received a B.A. in Media Education from Cairo University, where she studied journalism, theater and visual arts. She began her career in visual arts and theater in 2000, establishing an independent amateur theater festival. She edited the book Amateur Theater in Egypt, which includes articles and critiques by a number of prominent researchers in the field. She is one of the founders of the political social movement “Kefaya “ against the Mubarak regime in 2004. After the revolution, her activity emerged against the trial of civilians before military courts. She contributed to publishing on the issues of detainees, abused women, the issue of virginity tests for female detainees, sexual harassment issues, and human rights issues in general in light of the repressive practices that the country has witnessed since Sisi took over Egypt. Rasha Azab faced the first case of insulting and slandering women who stand in solidarity with the issues of sexual violence widespread in Egypt, because she published a number of tweets in solidarity with survivors of sexual violence, and after a local and international solidarity campaign, she escaped a prison sentence and was acquitted, then she obtained a conviction and fine, and previously Rasha faced charges from the military prosecution for publishing facts about female detainees being subjected to virginity tests at the outbreak of the Egyptian revolution. Then she was prosecuted for a year and a half on charges of organizing a demonstration at the gates of the Journalists Syndicate. Azab then assisted director Manal Khaled in the production of her first documentary project in Gaza, Palestine, in 2008. She worked as a researcher for the Egyptian feature films The Day I Ate The Fish by Aida El Kashef. She is the author of Cinema Cairo, an illustrated book published by Zeytouna, in 2017. She wrote the introduction of Dream Factory on the Nile, a book about the history of Egyptian film production in Alexandria at the turn of the twentieth century to the late 1990s, published by AUC Bookstore, in 2019. She wrote the screenplay for the film Hammam Sokhn “Trapped” , that has been screened in 2021, for the first time in South by Southwest Film Festival, Texas. Alongside her career as a scriptwriter and researcher, Azab has worked in local journalism since 1999, focusing on culture journalism in 2002 before moving to investigative reporting in 2013. Rasha Azab wrote her first fictional book, “A Heart of Salt,” published by Al Kotob Khan in January 2022.