Egypt’s cinematic gems: You and Me and the Hours of the Journey
Love in the time of the 1980s
Love in the time of the 1980s
In 1929, the Ministry of Interior banned Wedad Orfi's Masat al-Hayah (The Tragedy of Life). The reason: "The story as we saw it revels in self-indulgence, overshadowing the good part…
The scarcity of talented writers and the small size of the industry sometimes gives people a bigger status than they deserve, don’t you agree?
Andeel says that the blunt, solitary message of Al-Gezira 2 (The Island 2, 2014) is: Brotherhood bad, don’t play with them, government bad, play with them.
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