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Road to success | Injy ElMokaddem | TEDxYouth@CES

Actress Injy EL Mokaddem discusses her successful career and how to balance her personal life with her work. She empowers others to strive for success and pursue their careers. Injy el mokaddem is a well-known Egyptian actress and tv host who studied psychology at the American university in Cairo. Being in the position she is today required a lot of dedication and hard work. Starting from her childhood her big dream was far from conventional. She dreamt of becoming a movie and TV star one day, but she felt constrained by society’s prevailing restrictions at the time. She went on to study at the American University in Cairo where she majored in Psychology and minored in Theatre, and that was the first time she got a taste of what it was like to perform on stage. When she graduated, she was still too afraid to apply for acting jobs, due to the negative things she kept hearing about the backend of the film industry and so worked as a Graphic Designer for a while as she started to ease her way into the media field. She then applied for a job as a correspondent at Orbit’s Al Qahera Al Youm (Cairo Today) on El Youm Channel. While it was her first time standing in front of a camera, it felt natural to her and she got the job. Soon enough, she was presenting her own game show, El Sellem Wel Teaban (Snakes & Ladders) on the same network. Not long after that, she moved to OTV station owned by Nagib Sawiris, in 2006 when she started acting “It all traces back to when I was in college, studying Psychology as a major, and Theater as a minor; I was infatuated and besotted with acting. At the time, my now husband didn't like the idea of me getting into the world of acting outside of college. Still not wanting to let go of the dream, I worked as a reporter, and then a TV host.” This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx