Asia 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 got the Egyptian nationality in 1933. Her fluency in both English and Arabic enabled her to read many international novels, and to watch foreign movies.

Asia 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.

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, 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 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 of her films. She introduced Sabah, Salah Nazmy, Kamal Yassin, and Rawya Ashour to the cinema screen.

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, then 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 owned the biggest production and distribution company at that time, Lotus Film, through which many talents in various cinema fields were presented. Asia produced forty-nine distinguished Egyptian Films.