Yousry Nasrallah is an Egyptian film director. Nasrallah was born to a Coptic Christian family in Cairo. He graduated in economics and political science at Cairo University. Following, he worked as a film critic and directing assistant in Beirut from 1978 to 1982. He became assistant to Youssef Chahine whose company Misr International would go on to produce his films. Nasrallah's works have dealt with themes of leftism, Islamic fundamentalism, and expatriation. His 2012 film After the Battle competed for the Palme d'Or at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival

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Cinema Junkie travels to Egypt by way of an actor described as the "Egyptian Brad Pitt." In other words, he’s a big star even though most Americans don’t know his name, Khaled El Nabawy.

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

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

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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