Outside of the film circuit, the 2014 Arab World Cinema Exhibition hosted various debates to reflect on the contemporary issues of Arab countries and the Middle East.

Q&K Paul Sedra
Anxiety About the Urban in 1950s Egyptian Cinema
Monday, May 04, 2015
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Hall, Room P071, AUC New Cairo

Department of Arab and Islamic Civilizations

As part of the Qahwa and Kalam series, Paul Sedra, associate professor of history at Simon Fraser University, will give a talk titled "Life or Death: Anxiety About the Urban in 1950s Egyptian Cinema."

Life or Death (Haya aw mawt) is a classic of Egyptian cinema, widely interpreted retrospectively by scholars as an ode to progress, modernity, the nation and, the chief emblem of such, the burgeoning city. Indeed, the film was included in the list of "the most important 100 Egyptian films," commissioned by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina in 2006. Released in 1954, the film is associated by critics and scholars with the 1952 Free Officers’ Revolution and the spirit of nationalism and civic duty. In this talk Sedra will discuss the suspicion and ambivalence about the urban that pervade a film like Life or Death. In focusing upon the bustling urban life that the film so richly illustrates, scholars have set aside this invocation of death in the title as unimportant or inconsequential. Yet, this is a film much concerned with death. That is to say, this is a film about the potential death of a way of life, a death whose perceived imminence is lamented to no small extent in the film.

While film is a largely visual art form, a new initiative in Egypt is giving visually impaired people the opportunity to experience the magic of the cinema. A theatre in Cairo has begun screening movies, using an innovative technique to open up the cinematic world to visually impaired people

Eleven days of continuous screening of European films have concluded in Egypt. 80 films from 40 countries have been on display during the 12th edition of the Panorama of European movies that was founded in 2004. Here is CGTN's Adel El Mahrouky with more.

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ABANOB - Ancient Egyptian New Year
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Coptic: The Final Ancient Egyptian Language
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EGYPTIAN LANGUAGES
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CLASSICAL / QURANIC ARABIC LANGUAGE
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5 Pharaonic Words Egyptians Use Today
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5 Egyptian and Greek Words that are Insanely Similar
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10 UNBELIEVABLE Egyptian Arabic Words From Italian
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Zahret El Madaen
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حسين الجسمي - بشرة خير (فيديو كليب) | Hussain Al Jassmi - Boshret Kheir | 2014
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The Sound of the Alexandria Egyptian Arabic dialect
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Advice On Learning Egyptian Arabic - Interview With Olly Richards
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Learn MSA VS Egyptian Arabic letter pronunciation (a brain twist)
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😲😲خمس عجائب مش معروفة في العالم العربي
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Egyptian Arabic Genders
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English guy speaking Egyptian Arabic after 6 months
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What It's Like To Have an Egyptian Friend
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The Abandoned Cinema in Egypt, also known as Cinema of the Desert, is a surreal, unfinished outdoor theater located in the Sinai Peninsula, near Sharm El Sheikh. The cinema was originally constructed by a group of Europeans with the idea of offering a unique movie-watching experience in the vast desert landscape. It consists of rows of wooden seats and a large screen frame, surrounded by the barren beauty of the Egyptian desert.

However, the cinema was never used. Legend has it that technical issues, such as power supply problems or local disapproval, prevented the first screening, leaving the project abandoned. Over time, the desert's harsh conditions have weathered the seats and structure, turning the site into an eerie, picturesque relic.

Today, the abandoned cinema remains a mysterious and unusual landmark, attracting adventurous tourists intrigued by its story and haunting appearance in the middle of the desert.

Jean Simmons as Merit
Victor Mature as Horemheb
Gene Tierney as Baketamon
Michael Wilding as Akhnaton
Bella Darvi as Nefer
Peter Ustinov as Kaptah
Edmund Purdom as Sinuhe
Judith Evelyn as Taia
Henry Daniell as Mekere
John Carradine as Grave Robber
Carl Benton Reid as Senmut
Tommy Rettig as Thoth
Anitra Stevens as Queen Nefertiti
Donna Martell as Lady in Waiting
Mimi Gibson as First Princess
Carmen De Lavallade as Egyptian Dancer
Harry Thompson as Nubian
George Melford as Priest
Lawrence Ryle as Priest
Tiger Joe Marsh as Libyan Guard
Music by the great Kevin MacLeod

http://www.euronews.com/ It is a film title to sum up events in Egypt, 'Winter of Discontent'. As director Ibrahim el-Batout stood among the crowds in Cairo's Tahrir Square on the eve of Hosni Mubarak's overthrow last year, his first instinct was to start filming.

A call to actor Amr Waked and actress Farah Youssef, and within a few hours the trio were shooting a scene in Tahrir in which a man searches for his girlfriend amid the throng. 'Winter of Discontent' was in production.

The movie sends out a message of hope that marks a more upbeat departure for the Egyptian director who spent almost two decades portraying the despair of war.

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Egypt has the biggest cinema industry in the Middle East, producing more commercial films then all other Arab countries combined. But for the next three years, the holy month of Ramadan, which is based on the lunar calender, will fall in the height of summer -- which is usually the top season for cinema in Egypt. It means production companies are facing a massive drop in ticket sales. A natural-sound version of an AFPTV report

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History of classical Egyptian cinema 40's and 50's

Egypt has the biggest cinema industry in the Middle East, producing more commercial films then all other Arab countries combined. But for the next three years, the holy month of Ramadan -- which is based on the lunar calender -- will fall in the height of summer, usually the top season for cinema in Egypt. It means production companies are facing a massive drop in ticket sales. Duration: 02:15

Gods of Egypt - Bow Before Me or Die: Set (Gerard Butler) uses Horus's (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau) coronation as an opportunity to seize the throne from his family.
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The survival of mankind hangs in the balance when Set (Gerard Butler), the merciless god of darkness, usurps Egypt's throne and plunges the prosperous empire into chaos and conflict. Hoping to save the world and rescue his true love, a defiant mortal named Bek (Brenton Thwaites) forms an unlikely alliance with the powerful god Horus (Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). Their battle against Set and his henchmen takes them into the afterlife and across the heavens for an epic confrontation.

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