{"id":2143112,"date":"2025-11-08T17:16:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2143112"},"modified":"2025-11-08T17:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T17:16:14","slug":"egypts-oscar-hopeful-happy-birthday-follows-an-8-year-old-maid-who-is-a-class-act-in-a-world-of-classism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/egypts-oscar-hopeful-happy-birthday-follows-an-8-year-old-maid-who-is-a-class-act-in-a-world-of-classism\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s Oscar Hopeful \u2018Happy Birthday\u2019 Follows an 8-Year-Old Maid Who Is a Class Act in a World of Classism"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This Oscar season, you may find yourself falling in love with an eight-year-old maid and celebrating Happy Birthday. That is the title of the coming-of-age drama film, directed and co-written by Sarah Goher<\/a> in her feature directorial debut, which is Egypt\u2019s submission for the best international feature category at the 2026 Oscars. Jamie Foxx<\/a> is a producer on the movie, starring newcomer Doha Ramadan<\/a>, Nelly Karim<\/a>, Hanan Motawie<\/a>, Sherif Salama<\/a>, and Aly Sobhy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It was co-written by Goher<\/a>\u2019s life and creative partner, Mohamed Diab<\/a>. The duo previously also worked together on the Marvel series Moon Knight<\/a>, starring Oscar Isaac<\/a>, as well as Diab<\/a>\u2019s Clash<\/a> and Bus 671. Happy Birthday was produced by Ahmed El Desouky<\/a> for SkyLimit Production.<\/p>\n

The film tells the story of Toha<\/a>, the already-mentioned young maid, who works for an upper-class family and Cairo and is determined not to let anyone stop her from throwing a…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Oscar season, you may find yourself falling in love with an eight-year-old maid and celebrating Happy Birthday. That is the title of the coming-of-age drama film, directed and co-written by Sarah Goher in her feature directorial debut, which is Egypt\u2019s submission for the best international feature category at the 2026 Oscars. Jamie Foxx is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2143113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2143112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Egypts-Oscar-Hopeful-\u2018Happy-Birthday-Follows-an-8-Year-Old-Maid-Who.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2143112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2143114,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2143112\/revisions\/2143114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2143113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2143112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2143112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2143112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}