Ahmad Maher (director)

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| name = Ahmad Maher

| nationality = Egyptian

| occupation = film director

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Ahmad Maher ({{Langx|ar|أحمد ماهر}}) is an Egyptian film director. His directorial debut The Traveller (2009) competed for the Golden Lion at the 66th Venice International Film Festival.{{Cite journal |last=Mustafa |first=Hani |date=6–12 August 2009 |title=The Talented Mr Maher |journal=Al-Ahram Weekly |issue=959 |url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/959/cu22.htm |accessdate=2010-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101010145833/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/959/cu22.htm |archive-date=2010-10-10 |url-status=dead }} It was also screened in the Special Presentations section at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival.{{Cite journal |date=20 August 2009 |title=Traveler, Scheherazade and Heliopolis off to Toronto |journal=Daily News Egypt |url=http://www.thefreelibrary.com/%27Traveler,%27+%27Scheherazade%27+and+%27Heliopolis%27+off+to+Toronto-a0206317300 |accessdate=2010-09-27}} Maher also served as the art director on the 1990 Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas.