Samir Abdallah was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Egyptian modern art pioneer Hamed Abdallah and his Danish nurse wife. He has lived in France since the age of six, where he acquired French nationality. After studying Drama and Cinema at the University of Nanterre in the early 1980s, he participated in the creation of the IM’Média Agency with his brother Mogniss, and produced numerous reports and documentaries on Immigration for the program Rencontres, on the French channel FR3, between 1988 a ...