Let's make this birthday one to remember.

57 years old (Born on February 09, 1968)

Happy birthday, Hisham! Another year older and still brilliantly stirring the pot of cultural reconciliation—your films continue to provoke thought (and occasionally heated debates at dinner tables everywhere). Your recent artistic triumphs remind us all that creativity knows no boundaries—or borders. Keep painting truths with your camera lens; we promise we'll keep pretending we're cultured enough to fully understand them.

Here's wishing you another fantastic journey around the sun filled with inspiration, laughter, and perhaps fewer existential crises over poetic metaphors. May this next chapter bring even more success—and plenty of cake—to our favorite filmmaker-poet-artist extraordinaire!