Gameela Ismail (6 April 1966) is an Egyptian politician, television host, media innovator, content creator, and co-founder of the online new media platform Medina (www.medinaportal.com) launched in 2016. Medina provides an alternative, innovative, artistic, and interactive content in Arabic against hegemonic narratives. Gameela writes, films, narrates and directs a series of short films on Medina called Hekayat Gameela [Gameela’s Stories] using her smartphone camera. This has allowed Gameela to pioneer the concept of “personal TV” in the Arab world. In 2017, Gameela’s Stories were given the award for best documentary work empowering women and society by MBC HOPE in Dubai. In 2018, it was a finalist at the WAN-Ifra short films competition in South Africa.
