Youssef El Deeb (Arabic: يوسف الديب; born 14 November 1954) is an Egyptian-Canadian TV executive and award-winning film maker, book writer, director, producer, and childrenʼs book author. He founded Takhayal Entertainment and its flagship channel Fatafeat TV the first Arabic food network television channel, which was acquired by Discovery Communications in 2013. He is the Managing Director of Mediagates which operates eight encrypted TV channels under the Alfa brand and available via OSN. El Deeb used to be the CEO of the content creation company and Dubai-based film Picture Pond Media.