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Career
Jehane Noujaim was born to an Egyptian father and an American mother. By the age of 10 she was raised in the United States, Boston in 1990

She joined the MTV news and documentary division as a segment producer for the documentary series UNfiltered. Noujaim later left her job at MTV to produce and directStartup.com under the guidance of documentary filmmaker D.A Pennebaker in Pennebaker Hegedus Films. The feature length, highly acclaimed documentary has won numerous distinguished awards including the DGA, IDA and Sundance Awards for best documentary. She won the DGA Award again for The Square in 2014.

She has since worked in both the Middle East and the United States as a (cinematographer) on various documentaries including Born Rich (Jamie Johnson), Only the Strong Survive (Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker), and Down from the Mountain (D.A. Pennebaker, Chris Hegedus, Nick Doob).

In 2004, she directed the feature-length film Control Room, a documentary about US Central Command and its relations with Al Jazeera and other news organizations that covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq. which rewarded her with the TED prize in 2006, making her the first and youngest woman to do so. In 2007, she co-directed (with Sherief El Katsha) the film Shayfeen.com which was broadcast as part of the WhyDemocracy project. In 2012 she released ''Rafea: Solar Mama (which she directed with Mona Eldaeif). Is a documentary about a group of women leaving their villages to learn about solar engineering only to return and solar power their own society, and in 2013 released The Square'', a film following the Egyptian revolution and the inspiration it has given to the world.

In January 2014 The Square was nominated for an Academy Award in documentary category. The Square also won critical acclaim in the 2013 Sundance Film Festival & the2013 Toronto International Film Festival.