One of the most accomplished people in the early Egyptian Film Industry. She was known as the Pioneer of Historic Films and The High Production Lady.

Asia started as an actress before she quit and flourished as an independent film producer. She thought film production is both an art and management, so she carefully chose the stories and the cast and crew she worked with.

Two diverging strains characterized most of Asia's work as a producer during a span of her first years in production. On the one hand, she collaborated with one director at a time in several movies, like Ahmed Galal, Barakat, and Helmy Rafla, on the other hand; In most of her early productions she featured the same cast members in most her films. She introduced Sabah, Salah Nazmy, Kamal Yassin, and Rawya Ashour to the cinema screen.

Asia Dagher was born in Lebanon 1912. She moved to Cairo with her sister Mary, and niece Mary Quinny. She stayed with Asaad Dagher her cousin who was a writer and journalist at the famous AHRAM newspaper. She got the Egyptian nationality in 1933. Her fluency in both English and Arabic languages enabled her to read many international novels, and to watch foreign movies.

Asia enriched the Egyptian Cinema with varieties of films and directors, she made AMAL for director Youssef Maalouf, AL MAL WA AL BANOUN directed by Ibrahim Emara, YA ZALEMNI, SET EL SETAT directed by Ahmed Kamel Morsi, AL HAMAWAT AL FATENAT, LEMIN HAWAk directed by Helmy Rafla, HAYA AW MAWT (1954) directed by Kamal El Sheikh (his third film as a director), as well as EWAA AL HOB directed by Mamdouh Shoukry, YAWMEYAT NAEB FI AL ARIAF, directed by Tawfik Saleh. Asia's last productions were AL SARAB, AL SHAYTAN WA AL KHARIF directed by Anwar El Shinnawi.

The stage of collaboration between Asia as a producer and Ez El Din Zulfikar the director ought to be well observed.Together they made the epic; ROD QALBI, the producer Asia looked for another huge production with this very same director, they came to choose the story of AL NASSER SALAH EL DIN (1963).

Asia was not only an actress, or director, she owned the biggest production and distribution company at that time Lotus Film, through which many talents in various cinema fields were presented. The development of her own style in production and her extensive work in collaboration with top directors and superstars' results is a teaching style that is rich with production, experience, story, and inspiration. Asia made forty-nine distinguished Egyptian Films.