Laila Shereen Sakr

Quick Facts

Full Name	Laila Shereen Sakr
Occupation	Artist
Date Of Birth	Nov 18, 1971(1971-11-18)
Age	53
Birthplace	Alexandria
Country	Egypt
Birth City	Alexandria Governorate
Horoscope	Scorpio

Laila Shereen Sakr Biography

Laila Shereen Sakr is one of the most popular and richest Artist who was born on November 18, 1971 in Alexandria, Alexandria Governorate, Egypt.

Before developing her career in digital arts and culture, she published and performed poetry under her maiden name, Laila Shereen. She published in journals, and co-founded a couple spoken word collectives in Washington, D.C. including The D.C. Guerrilla Poetry Insurgency and Word of Mouth from 1999–2007. She worked as Multimedia and Publications Editor at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies during that time. Earlier from 1993–1995, she served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Morocco where she taught English language and literature to university students in Fez at Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University’s Faculty of Arts.

With a background in documentary film and web development, her current practices include system design, cultural analytics, computational art, video art, and immersive cinema. She is known for building R-Shief, “one of the largest repositories of Arabic-language tweets” and for her predictive analytics of the fall of Qaddafi in Libya in August 2011. This work emerged from her doctoral research and development. For the practical component of her doctoral dissertation, VJ Um Amel archived rare social media collections from the Arab uprising and Occupy movements from 2010–2014. She collaborated with a team of engineers to innovate trending, semantic, sentiment tools that analyze Arabic and seven other languages using machine learning. From the analytics processed from the archives, she created 3D games, documentary video, video remixes, computational drawings, data visualizations, and digital performances.

Laila Shereen Sakr Net Worth

Laila Shereen Sakr is one of the richest Artist from Egypt. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Laila Shereen Sakr 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Laila Shereen Sakr (born 1971), known by her moniker, VJ Um Amel, is an Egyptian–American digital media theorist and artist. She is the founder of the digital lab, R-Shief, Inc., an Annenberg Fellow, and Assistant Professor of Media Theory & Practice at University of California, Santa Barbara, where she founded the Wireframe digital media studio.

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Laurie Ranked on the list of most popular Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Egypt. Laila Shereen Sakr celebrates birthday on November 18 of every year.