Egyptian cinema

The elephant in the theater: Cinema goers boycott anti-revolutionary celebrities
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The elephant in the theater: Cinema goers boycott anti-revolutionary celebrities

There’s an old saying: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say anything at all.” Had Egyptian actor Talaat Zakaria…
Remembering Atef al-Tayeb: A landmark in Egyptian cinema
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Remembering Atef al-Tayeb: A landmark in Egyptian cinema

Thursday marked 16 years since Egyptian film director Atef al-Tayeb passed away.  A pioneer of the “New Realism” wave that…
An Ant’s Cry: Egyptian film ‘Sarkhet Namla’ tackles poverty and the revolution
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An Ant’s Cry: Egyptian film ‘Sarkhet Namla’ tackles poverty and the revolution

Why would an ant cry when it has so few demands in life? That is the question that director Sameh Abdel…
Cairo’s 11th Independent Film Festival offers a wealth of perspectives
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Cairo’s 11th Independent Film Festival offers a wealth of perspectives

The courtyard of downtown’s Goethe Institute was overflowing Sunday evening as the 11th edition of Cairo’s Independent Film Festival opened…
Movie Fashion: Thirty years of glitz and glam
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Movie Fashion: Thirty years of glitz and glam

Egypt has known the art of movie making since the 1920s but in the last three decades, fashion has changed…
Scrubbed: Sex free Egyptian movies
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Scrubbed: Sex free Egyptian movies

In the mid 1940s, when prominent (though untalented) Egyptian actor Anwar Wagdy openly bragged to journalists about the famous actresses…
34th Cairo film festival kicks off amid ‘orgy of appreciation’
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34th Cairo film festival kicks off amid ‘orgy of appreciation’

In a recent piece on the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), journalist Sherif Awad complained that, because of low ticket…
Egyptian movie diva Berlenti Abdul Hamid dies at 75
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Egyptian movie diva Berlenti Abdul Hamid dies at 75

Berlenti Abdul Hamid, an icon of Egyptian cinema's golden age, passed away on Wednesday morning at the age of 75.…
Interior Ministry to adopt anti-film piracy measures
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Interior Ministry to adopt anti-film piracy measures

The Interior Ministry held meetings this week with the Egyptian Chamber of Cinemas to discuss ways of preventing film piracy,…
Women take more lead roles in Egyptian cinema
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Women take more lead roles in Egyptian cinema

Despite constant talk about a "movie industry crisis," in terms of gender, the reality is that Egyptian cinema today has…
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