Sara Gadalla Gubara

Sara Gadallah Gubara Al-Faki Ibrahim (Arabic: سارة جاد الله جبارة, romanized: Sāra Jādallah Jubāra; born 23 April 1956) is a Sudanese competition swimmer and film director. She was the first Sudanese woman to participate in international swimming competitions, such as the Capri International long-distance swimming race in Italy, and the first Sudanese woman to swim the English Channel to France, despite having contracted polio in childhood. Further to her lifelong activity as a sportswoman, she became noted as a pioneering female filmmaker in her country, first assisting her father, Gadalla Gubara, and later directing her own films.