Al-Attar is an Egyptian independent theatre director, playwright, translator and cultural manager. He is the founder and artistic director of Al-Mashreq Productions, a leading Egyptian arts production company based in Cairo. Al-Mashreq Productions offers a range of services to a number of projects in the fields of entertainment, arts and culture.  

El Attar is also the founder and artistic director of Emad El Din Studio, a unique project that provides training spaces for independent artists in the performing arts, the Temple Independent Theatre Company, the Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival (DCAF), the largest annual international multi-arts festival in Egypt, and the Arab Contemporary Arts Forum, a project that helps produce and market Arab performing arts around the world, and Maktabi, the only creative space in Cairo dedicated to those working in the creative sector.  

Al-Attar holds a bachelor's degree in theatre from the American University in Cairo (1992) and a master's degree in cultural management and arts from the Sorbonne Nouvelle University (2001).  

Al-Attar's plays have been performed at the most important and largest theatres and festivals in Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Sweden, Portugal, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Croatia, Montenegro, the United Kingdom, South Korea, Singapore, Hong Kong, Russia, the United States and the United Arab Emirates.  

His works include ‘The Committee’ (1998), ‘Life is Sweet or Waiting for My Uncle to Come from America’ (2000), ‘About Othello or Who's Afraid of William Shakespeare’ (2006), The Last Supper (2014), Before the Revolution (2017), and Mama (2018).  

Al-Attar's play ‘Damn Abu Darwain, or How I Learned to Love Socialism,’ which he presented in 2007, won the Best Actor Award at the 22nd edition of the Al-Mustafa Festival.