When this film hit cinemas it created massive controversy and was accused of blasphemy by Christian scholars
Faten Hamama had never come anywhere near playing a character as unusual as this before
Being a gay man in Egypt is already a struggle without this film and its tired old clichés, lurid misinformation, and badly played out melodrama to contend with, says Sarah…
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