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Sherine Salama was born in Cairo and moved to Australia with her family when she was three years old. Her father is Egyptian and her mother Palestinian. The idea for A WEDDING IN RAMALLAH arose in 1996 when she spent nine months in the Palestinian Territories training Palestinian television journalists for the United Nations. Salama's last film was Australia Has No Winter (Australian Broadcasting Corporation, 1999), an award-winning documentary which followed a refugee family from Belgrade to Melbourne and chronicled their settlement experience.
Over the past 14 years, she has traveled and worked throughout the Middle East. From 1989 to 1991, she was based in Cairo where she worked as a freelance journalist. As a news and current affairs reporter for Australian television from 1993 to 1995, she received the United Nations Media Peace Prize for a report detailing the rape experiences of Bosnian women. From 1997 to 2000, Salama served as a part-time member of the Refugee Review Tribunal. She recently returned from Baghdad where she was exploring an idea for her next film.
Photo: Michael Donovan Photography
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