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Defying the gaze of others in Abu Bakr Shawky’s Yomeddine
Yomeddine brings the road movie genre to vibrant yet marginalized parts of the country
Adham Youssef
12 دقيقة قراءة
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Adham Youssef
Adham Youssef is a Cairo-based journalist and film critic. His main interest is Egyptian cinema, its history, artistic heritage and effect on popular culture. He believes cinema can be used to historicize the past and understand the present. His work includes sociopolitical analysis of commercial and independent films, propaganda and visual art. He is also an aspiring scriptwriter with lots of…
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#cinema
Constructing and echoing social perceptions: Gay characters in Egyptian film
How do movie depictions inform how we, both straight and queer Egyptians, see gay people?
Adham Youssef
18 دقيقة قراءة
#cinema
The uprising will not be filmed: Cinematic representations of the 1977 bread riots
Film seems to have largely neglected the 1977 bread riots
Adham Youssef
12 دقيقة قراءة
#Atef al-Tayeb
Egypt’s cinematic gems: Bus Driver
Produced a year after the killing of Anwar Sadat, Atef al-Tayeb's film brought Sadat's infitah policy to harsh trial
Adham Youssef
6 دقيقة قراءة
#Egypt's cinematic gems
Egypt’s cinematic gems: Cairo 30
Arguably the first film in Egyptian cinema to push for a socialist solution to Egypt’s eternal problems
Adham Youssef
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#Abdel Halim Hafez
Egypt’s cinematic gems: An Important Man’s Wife
Mohamed Khan has a long history of making women the gauge of society in his films, says Adam Youssef.
Adham Youssef
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