Assya Dagher was born in Lebanon 1901. 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 newspaper al-Ahram. She obtained the Egyptian nationality in 1933. Her fluency in both English and Arabic enabled her to read many novels to watch foreign movies.

Assya was one of the most accomplished people in the early Egyptian Film Industry. She was known as the Pioneer of Historical Films and the High Production Lady.

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

Two diverging strains characterized most of Assya's work as a producer in her first years. On the one hand, she collaborated with one director at a time in several movies, like Ahmed Galal, Barakat, and Hal-my Raflah. On the other hand, in most of her early productions she featured the same cast members in most of her films. She introduced Sabah, Salah Nazmy, Kamal Yassin, and Rawya Ashour to the silver screen.

The stage of collaboration between Assya as a producer and Ezzedin Zulfikar the director should be well observed. Together they made the epic; Rod Qalbi, then the producer Assya looked for another huge production with this very same director, they came to choose the story of al -Nasser Salaheddin (1963).

Assya owned the biggest production and distribution company at that time, Lotus Film, through which many talents in various fields of the film industry were presented. She produced forty-nine films.