Egypt’s Mayye Zayed on ‘Lift Like a Girl’ About an Ambitious Teenage Female Weightlifter Trained on the Street
- December 7, 2020
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Egyptian director Mayye Zayed, who studied film and documaking at Wellesley and MIT, spent four years following the main character of her female empowerment doc, “Lift Like a Girl,” Zebiba (which means “raisin” in Arabic), who at age nine entered former Olympic athlete Captain Ramadan’s weightlifting training camp on a vacant Alexandria lot. After world-premiering […]
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