Amina Abodoma

Born in 1983, Amina Abodoma (BA English Literature, MA Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship) is a cultural entrepreneur and arts manager from Alexandria, Egypt. She has started her career in the field of art and culture, where she developed and coordinated large scale projects across the 43 countries of Euro-Mediterranean region in the fields of Culture, Education, Youth, Children’s Literature and Social Media through her work as a programme officer at the Anna Lindh Foundation for the Dialogue between cultures.

Additionally, she is the programme coordinator at the International Association for Creation and Training (I-act), where she organizes international theatre and arts festivals on annual basis. Amongst is 7 editions of the Creative forum for International Theatre Groups (Europe-Mediterranean) from 2003 to 2010. And two editions of the biennale Reveil (An Arab Theatre Gathering) in 2011 and 2013 and two editions of the International Backstreet festival (Europe-Mediterranean) in 2012 and 2014.

In 2012 and 2014, Abodoma established her own art spaces and social hubs “Teatro Eskendria” and “Teatro ElMaadi” respectively, which are arts centers and social hubs based in Alexandria and in Cairo offering wide ranging services varying between artistic performances, training and capacity building workshops for youth, dialogue and children programmes as well as cultural cafés and restaurants. In 2014, Abodoma is in the process of establishing the music production house and tour agency “The Distinct Spirit” in the UK with the musician and creative entrepreneur Daniel Merrill.