Critic Mahmoud Abdel Shakoor says in his book "How to Watch a Movie", that dialogue in itself is a difficult art complementing the art of cinema, pointing out that Egyptian cinema in its golden age relied on giants specialized in dialogue, such as El Sayed Bedeir, Abul El-Saud El Ebiary, and Badee' Khairy, who were assigned to
On one of the days last week, I encountered a scene different from life. It is my habit to wake up early to give myself a space to welcome the day calmly whenever possible.
You'll find me early in the morning in front of a cup of coffee and a cup of milk tea looking at only one of four things on TV: 1- Tranquil music flowing with the
The book "The Era of the Cinema Club" by Amir Al-Amri, published by the Egyptian General Book Authority, delves deep into the experience of the cinema club in Cairo. An experience that the author believes is the most refined, complete, and deeply rooted of all similar cinema club experiences. He recounts his memories and impressions
The novel "The Fool's Revenge and The Tale of the Fisherman's Fish" by Hajjaj Adoul takes us to a bizarre world where there are strange celebratory rituals and societal norms concerning the very concept of work, alongside characters wrestling internally with good, evil, lust, virtue, and all the conflicting human drives deep
Perhaps it was fitting for a bartender to decide to go to Vietnam during the war to deliver beer to his friends who were fighting in the ranks of the United States Army, awakening and enlightening Americans to the horrors of what was happening in Vietnam in 1967.
This is what happened in the true story depicted in the American biographical
