Gasser Khorshid

Gasser Khourshid is an Egyptian sound engineer. He graduated from Egypt's High Cinema Institute to work on a wide variety of Egyptian and Arab feature-length and short films, as well as documentaries. Khourshid collaborated with prominent filmmaker Youssef Chahine for over ten years, and worked alongside a number of other prominent directors, including Marianne Khoury, Ateyyat El-Abnoudy, Shems Friedlander and Nadya Kamel. He also contributed to various UNESCO films on Egyptian archaeological missions with filmmaker Asmaa Bakry. Khourshid's involvement in television ranges from working with the UK-based History Channel, to Japanese and German TV, to dozens of animated films and hundreds of commercials. He served as a sound engineer for Egyptian television series, including Asrar and Awraq El-Tout, and produced concerts and soundtracks for theater productions such as Dam El-Sawaqy, for which he received an award from the Arab Theater Festival. Several other works of his have received awards from international, regional and local festivals and panels.