Layla Kaylif (Arabic: ليلى خليفة) is a British-Emirati singer-songwriter, film director, screenwriter and actress. She won the IWC Filmmaker Award at the 2015 Dubai International Film Festival for her original screenplay "The Letter Writer". == Early life == Kaylif was born in Dubai, UAE to an English mother and an Emirati-Arab father. After studying at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA), she completed a degree in Arabic at the University of Oxford in the UK. After that, she spent... [more on Wikipedia]