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A Lost Arab Hollywood: Female Representation in Pre-Revolutionary Contemporary Egyptian Cinema
A LOST ARAB HOLLYWOOD: FEMALE REPRESENTATION IN PRE-REVOLUTIONARY CONTEMPORARY EGYPTIAN CINEMA A Thesis Submitted to the Faculty of the Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service By Yasmine Salam Washington, D.C. April 20, 2020 2 Foreword This project is dedicated to Mona, Mehry and Soha. Three Egyptian women whose stories will follow me wherever I go. As a child, I never watched Arabic films. Growing up in London to an Egyptian family meant I desperately craved to learn pop-culture references that were foreign to my ancestors. It didn’t feel ‘in’ to be different and as a teenager I struggled to reconcile two seemingly incompatible facets of my identity. Like many of the film characters in this study, I felt stuck at a crossroads between embracing modernity and respecting tradition. I unknowingly opted to be a non-critical consumer of European and American mass media at the expense of learning from the rich narratives emanating from my own region. My British secondary school’s curriculum was heavily Eurocentric and rarely explored the history of my people further than as tertiary figures of the past. That is not to say I rejected my cultural heritage upfront. Women in my family went to great lengths to share our intricate family history and values. My childhood was as much shaped by dinner-table conversations at my Nona’s apartment in Cairo and long summers at the Egyptian coast, as it was by my life in Europe. -
Faten Hamama and the 'Egyptian Difference' in Film Madamasr.Com January 20
Faten Hamama and the 'Egyptian difference' in film madamasr.com January 20 In 1963, Faten Hamama made her one and only Hollywood film. Entitled Cairo, the movie was a remake of The Asphalt Jungle, but refashioned in an Egyptian setting. In retrospect, there is little remarkable about the film but for Hamama’s appearance alongside stars such as George Sanders and Richard Johnson. Indeed, copies are extremely difficult to track down: Among the only ways to watch the movie is to catch one of the rare screenings scheduled by cable and satellite network Turner Classic Movies. However, Hamama’s foray into Hollywood is interesting by comparison with the films she was making in “the Hollywood on the Nile” at the time. The next year, one of the great classics of Hamama’s career, Al-Bab al-Maftuh (The Open Door), Henri Barakat’s adaptation of Latifa al-Zayyat’s novel, hit Egyptian screens. In stark contrast to Cairo, in which she played a relatively minor role, Hamama occupied the top of the bill for The Open Door, as was the case with practically all the films she was making by that time. One could hardly expect an Egyptian actress of the 1960s to catapult to Hollywood stardom in her first appearance before an English-speaking audience, although her husband Omar Sharif’s example no doubt weighed upon her. Rather, what I find interesting in setting 1963’s Cairo alongside 1964’s The Open Door is the way in which the Hollywood film marginalizes the principal woman among the film’s characters, while the Egyptian film sets that character well above all male counterparts. -
Dossier De Presse Lundi 2 Juillet 2018
DOSSIER de PRESSE Lundi 2 juillet 2018 Karin VIARD Présidente du jury Michel CÔTÉ Eye HAÏDARA Laurent HASSID Camélia JORDANA Thomas LILTI Raphaël PERSONNAZ Ludivine SAGNIER Karin VIARD Présidente Actrice de porcelaine » s’est imposée comme une actrice incontournable du cinéma français. Elle n’hésite pas à alterner les projets et les genres, passant du troublant Je suis un assassin de Thomas Vincent (2003) à la comédie populaire de François Ozon, Potiche (2010) ou au film moins médiatique mais à l’engagement artistique fort : Les Derniers jours du monde des frères Larrieu (2009). En 2011, Karin Viard joue dans la comédie aux millions d’entrées de Dany Boon Rien à déclarer puis incarne une © Gerard Giaume / H&K © Gerard mère de famille sourde et muette aux côtés de Louane et François Damiens dans La Famille Bélier d’Éric Lartigau, l’un des plus beaux succès cinéma de 2014. Les différents rôles de Karin Viard dessinent une multitude de portraits de femmes. Qu’elles soient émancipées, « Je n’imaginais pas faire autre chose que comédienne » ; fragiles, colorées, effacées, émouvantes, excessives ou c’est avec ambition et des rêves de comédie plein la libres, chacune d’elles nous plonge dans les méandres tête que la jeune Karin Viard quitte sa Normandie natale d’une féminité plurielle, jamais uniforme. Et les réalisateurs pour la capitale. À la fin des années 1980, elle rencontre et réalisatrices n’hésitent pas à lui confier de beaux rôles Étienne Chatiliez qui lui offre le rôle d’une rousse féminins : inspectrice d’une brigade de protection de pulpeuse dans Tatie Danielle. -
SHARJAH FILM PLATFORM SCREENING SCHEDULE 19–26 January 2019
SHARJAH FILM PLATFORM SCREENING SCHEDULE 19–26 January 2019 Programme 1 Friday, 18 January - 9:00 pm Mirage City Cinema Saturday, 26 January - 3:00 pm Sharjah Institute of Theatrical Arts Sharjah Film Platform annually awards Short Film Production Grants in support of film production in the UAE and internationally. Selected through an open call, this year’s grant winners are Abdulrahman Al Madani and Mohammed Al Hammadi, whose films Laymoon and Maryam, respectively, will be premiered at the festival. Al Madani and Al Hammadi will discuss their films after the screenings on opening night. Laymoon (2019) Director: Abdulrahman Al Madani United Arab Emirates Narrative | 16 min Arabic with English subtitles A neglected housewife’s constant attempts to regain her short-tempered husband’s interest in their marriage prove futile. Influenced by her best friend, she realises her efforts need to stretch beyond a wholesome meal. Abdulrahman Al Madani started making films in 2012, focusing particularly on social issues. His first documentary short, The Gamboo3a Revolution (2012), won awards from the Gulf Film Festival and the Abu Dhabi Film Festival, and he also directed the two short films Guilt (2013) and Nagafa (2014). He received a bachelor's degree in applied media studies from the Higher Colleges of Technology, Dubai (2014) and completed a one-year filmmaking diploma programme at the New York Film Academy Abu Dhabi (2015). His thesis film, Beshkara, received its world premiere at the Dubai International Film Festival the same year. Al Madani was born in 1992 in Dubai, where he currently lives and works. Maryam (2019) Director: Mohammed Al Hammadi United Arab Emirates Narrative | 22 min Arabic with English subtitles An ambitious young Emirati’s dream to pursue an acting career in New York is challenged by the sudden of her father and the opposition of her mother, who wants her to marry. -
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154 Features Features 155 Van Leo from Turkey to Egypt By Martina Corgnati 156 Features The first photographic forays in the Middle East occurred within the Armenian community. In Egypt, legendary figures such as G. Lekegian, who arrived from Istanbul around 1880, kick-started an Armenian led monopoly over photography and the photographic business. Gradually, other photogra- phers began to populate the area around Lekegian’s Cairo studio, located near Opera Square, creating a small “special- ized” neighborhood in both the commercial and ethnic sense. Favored, perhaps, by historical familiarity with images and Christian religion’s acceptance of representational media; Armenians tended to pass on the trade, which at the time could only be learned through experience in the workshops. Due to this process, Armenian photographers were often quite experimental. Armand (Armenak Arzrouni, b. Erzurum 1901 – d. Cairo 1963), Archak, Tartan and Alban (the art name of Aram Arnavoudian, b. Istanbul 1883 – d. Cairo 1961), for example, who arrived in Cairo in the early twentieth century, were some of the first to try “creative” photographic tech- niques that played with variations in composition and points of view. The first photographer Van Leo met in Cairo was an Arme- nian artist called Varjabedian. Still a child, Van Leo regularly visited his provincial photography studio and, years later, Varjabedian would be the one to introduce him to the photog- raphy “temple” in Cairo. This was the name given to the area from Opera Square to Qasr al Nil Street where an abundance of photographic studios and foreign jewelers mingled with Leon (Leovan) Boyadjian, known in the art world as the Egyptian artistic aura. -
Arabic Films
Arabic Films Call # HQ1170 .A12 2007 DVD Catalog record http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=b6528747~S7 TITLE 3 times divorced / a film by Ibtisam Sahl Mara'ana a Women Make Movies release First Hand Films produced for The Second Authority for Television & Radio the New Israeli Foundation for Cinema & Film Gon Productions Ltd Synopsis Khitam, a Gaza-born Palestinian woman, was married off in an arranged match to an Israeli Palestinian, followed him to Israel and bore him six children. When her husband divorced her in absentia in the Sharia Muslim court and gained custody of the children, Khitam was left with nothing. She cannot contact her children, has no property and no citizenship. Although married to an Israeli, a draconian law passed in 2002 barring any Palestinian from gaining Israeli citizenship has made her an illegal resident there. Now she is out on a dual battle, the most crucial of her life: against the court which always rules in favor of the husband, and against the state in a last-ditch effort to gain citizenship and reunite with her children Format DVD format Call # DS119.76 .A18 2008 DVD Catalog record http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=b6514808~S7 TITLE 9 star hotel / Eden Productions Synopsis A look at some of the many Palestinians who illegally cross the border into Israel, and how they share their food, belongings, and stories, as well as a fear of the soldiers and police Format DVD format Call # PN1997 .A127 2000z DVD Catalog record http://library.ohio-state.edu/record=b6482369~S7 TITLE 24 sāʻat ḥubb = 24 hours of love / Aflām al-Miṣrī tuqaddimu qiṣṣah wa-sīnāryū wa-ḥiwār, Fārūq Saʻīd افﻻم المرصي تقدم ؛ قصة وسيناريوا وحوار, فاروق سعيد ؛ / hours of love ساعة حب = ikhrāj, Aḥmad Fuʼād; 24 24 اخراج, احمد فؤاد Synopsis In this comedy three navy officers on a 24 hour pass go home to their wives, but since their wives doubt their loyalty instead of being welcomed they are ignored. -
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N°580 PROGRAMMES DU 29 JUILLET AU 4 AOÛT 2017 RÉGIONS Demain nous appartient TF1 | LUNDI À VENDREDI 19.20 Charlotte Valandrey « Je rêvais que TF1 fasse un pas vers moi » Natation française FRANCE 2 | SAMEDI 17.25 Au creux de la vague Michel Berger, 25 ans déjà TF1 | SAMEDI 21.00 Michel Berger JULIEN COURBET Toujours au top ! « Je ne suis Zone interdite M6 | MERCREDI 21.00 Ils passent l’été à aider en contact les autres ! qu’avec C8 ! » Il était une fois... l’homme DU LUNDI AU VENDREDI | 19H05 FRANCE 4 | LUN. À VEN. 19.15 Voyage dans le temps www.tvregions.com ✓ Commande lecteur : LIGNE 2000 A retourner à : WELLFORM - MBE 331 83 Avenue de Nice - 06805 CAGNES-SUR-MER Cedex Qté. Prix Sous-Total 300156 Cure Normale (3 à 5 kg) 29,95 300157 Cure Intensive (5 à 10 kg) 59,90 49,95 300158 Cure Radicale (+ de 10 kg) 89,90 69,95 Recevez en plus 1 semaine de cure GRATUITE 29,95 Cochez pour toute commande d’une cure intensive ou radicale 0 ✓ Contribution unique aux frais d’expédition et d'emballage 7,95 Offre valable en France Métropolitaine Pour eviter toute erreur CODE LG7135 merci d’écrire lisiblement TOTAL Chèque à l’ordre de WELLFORM Carte : Nº Signature obligatoire : 3 chiffres dos carte Expire le M. Mme Mlle NomPrénom Adresse C.P. Ville E-mail @ Tél Né(e) le “Conformément à la loi informatique et Libertés n°78.17 du 6 janvier 1978 - Art 27, vous disposez d’un droit d’accès et de rectification aux données vous concernant en écrivant. -
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DÉCEMBRE /19 CINÉMA DÉCEMBRE 2019.qxp_Mise en page 1 26/11/2019 09:23 Page1 CINÉMA DÉCEMBRE 2019.qxp_Mise en page 1 26/11/2019 09:23 Page2 INFORMATIONS CINÉMA JEUNE PUBLIC la coursive Tout film présenté dans le cadre de la programmation du 4, rue Saint-Jean du Pérot mois peut faire l’objet de séances scolaires. TARIF : 3,50€ 17025 La Rochelle cedex 1 FILMS TOUT PARTICULIÈREMENT RECOMMANDÉS BONJOUR LE MONDE ! Du lundi au vendredi de 13h30 à 19h ANNE-LISE KOEHLER et ÉRIC SERRE Samedi et dimanche de 14h00 à 19h00 FRANCE – 2019 – 1H01 – COUL. / À PARTIR DE 5 ANS ET POUR TOUS SÉANCE DÉCEMBRE Par téléphone 05 46 51 54 02 / 03 / 04 — DI 01 16H15 SUIVI D’UNE RENCONTRE AVEC ANNE-LISE KOEHLER Du lundi au dimanche de 14h30 à 19h00 LE VOYAGE DU PRINCE www.la-coursive.com JEAN-FRANÇOIS LAGUIONIE et XAVIER PICARD horaires et programme téléchargeables FRANCE / LUXEMBOURG – 2019 – 1H16 – COULEUR À PARTIR DE 8 ANS ET POUR TOUS INFORMATIONS DANS LES MÉDIAS SÉANCES DÉCEMBRE — Sud-Ouest / Sud-Ouest Dimanche / Sortir 17 / ME 04 16H00 VE 06 18H00 SA 07 16H30 DI 08 16H15 ME 11 16H45 SA 14 17H00 France Bleu La Rochelle / La Charente Libre / SA 21 15H00 LU 23 14H30 France 3 Nouvelle-Aquitaine et Atlantique / SÉANCE SCOLAIRE COMPLÈTES RCF Charente-Maritime / La Nouvelle République ZÉBULON LE DRAGON Niort / Le Phare de Ré / Radio Collège / MAX LANG et DANIEL SNADDON Ré à la Hune / Chroniques d’Aliénor / Web TV Info / ROYAUME-UNI – 2019 – 26 MIN. – COULEUR – V.F. La Rochelle Madame DURÉE TOTALE DU PROGRAMME 40 MIN. -
Faten Hamama and Hind Rustom: Stars from Different Heavens
24 al-raida Issue 122 - 123 | Summer / Fall 2008 Faten Hamama and Hind Rustom: Stars from Different Heavens Jean Said Makdissi One of the current topics in critical discussions on the Arab cinema is the gendered nature of nationalist and national themes. It has been repeatedly said that in the Egyptian cinema, Egypt itself is often represented by an idealized woman. Both Viola Shafik (1998) and Lina Khatib (2006) make much of this idea, and investigate it with reference to particular films. In this context the idealizing title sayidat al-shasha al-arabiyya, (i.e. the lady of the Arab screen) has been universally granted to Faten Hamama, the grande dame of the Egyptian cinema and one of the most prolific of its actresses, and thus she is the ideal embodiment on the screen not only of Egyptian and Arab womanhood, but also of Egypt’s view of itself and of the Arab world. To study the output of Faten Hamama is to have an idea of how Egyptians – and perhaps all Arabs – like to see themselves, and especially their women. But to arrive at a clearer idea of the self-definition of the Arab world and its fantasy of the feminine ideal I believe it would be helpful to contrast her work with that of Hind Rustom, who both in her physical appearance and the persona she represents on screen is almost directly antithetical to Faten. In preparation for this article I have seen more than two dozen films, and of course drawn on decades of experience with the Egyptian cinema. -
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May - July 2008 page 1 www.bibalex.org/alexmed/ May - July 2008 page 2 Good Food Ends with Good Talk Alexandria’s Inaugural International Food Fair Edward Lewis the Mediterranean—is an ambitious attempt to exploit Alexandria’s rich and diverse cuisine, whilst highlighting the city’s multicultural character. It is hoped that by stressing the variety of cuisine in addition to the shared traditions of neighboring regions, the project will celebrate both diversity and collective traits of the Euro- Med. The International Food Fair, the first of three of the project’s deliverables, was held over two days and hailed a success, primarily due to the contribution and effort made by the different communities of Alexandria and the professional establishments involved. The first day saw a wide range of mezza, main courses, sweets and beverages displayed under a large white At first, food may seem an unlikely means by which tent set in the magnificent setting of the Villa Antoniadis, to encourage intercultural dialogue and exchange. itself a true example of Alexandrian cosmopolitanism It seems too simple, too ‘ordinary’ a subject with and diversity. A British subject who hailed from the which to tackle such a daunting task as uniting Greek island of Lemnos, Sir John Antoniadis was an countries and bringing people together within the Alexandrian and a generous patron of the city and its Euro Mediterranean Region. Yet the more one thinks Greek community. In the mid-nineteenth century, he about food, the more one realizes that it is in fact the developed a garden estate which was to become the perfect vehicle with which to do exactly that. -
UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz Previously Published Works
UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz Previously Published Works Title “Of Marabouts, Acrobats, and Auteurs: Framing the Global Popular in Moumen Smihi’s World Cinema.” Permalink https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1r86d1c5 Author Limbrick, Peter Publication Date 2021 Peer reviewed eScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital Library University of California FINAL ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT, FORTHCOMING IN CULTURAL CRITIQUE, 2021 “Of Marabouts, Acrobats, and Auteurs: Framing the Global Popular in Moumen Smihi’s World Cinema.” Peter Limbrick, Film and Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz One of the critical commonplaces in the study of Arab cinemas is the idea that we can distinguish between Egyptian cinema, a dominant popular and industrial cinema akin to Hollywood, and smaller national or regional cinemas (Palestinian, Tunisian, Algerian, Moroccan) which are typically discussed as auteur or art cinemas. While historically defensible, in that Egypt preceded these others in having its own studios and industry, such an assessment nonetheless tends to foreclose on the possibilities for those films inhabiting the “non-Egyptian” model ever be accorded the status of popular cinema. Moreover, where local distribution and exhibition for North African films has been historically partial or non-existent (due to commercial decisions that have historically favored Egyptian, Indian, and Euro-American productions), it has been difficult for many directors in countries like Morocco to avoid the charge that their films—which are often more visible in European festivals than at home—are made for other markets or audiences. Whether in sympathy with the idea of distinctive local or national cinemas and resistance to cultural hegemony, or in suspicion of the politics of international funding and coproduction, many critical treatments of non-Egyptian Arab films make of the popular an evaluative term that signifies local authenticity and a resistance towards European art cinema tendencies and that privileges commercial success over experimentation. -
Neglected Masterpieces of Cinema
Class, Race and Corporate Power Volume 3 Issue 1 Article 3 2015 Neglected Masterpieces of Cinema Louis Proyect [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower Part of the Film and Media Studies Commons, and the Political Science Commons Recommended Citation Proyect, Louis (2015) "Neglected Masterpieces of Cinema," Class, Race and Corporate Power: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 , Article 3. DOI: 10.25148/CRCP.3.1.16092133 Available at: https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/classracecorporatepower/vol3/iss1/3 This work is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Arts, Sciences & Education at FIU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Class, Race and Corporate Power by an authorized administrator of FIU Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Neglected Masterpieces of Cinema Abstract This article will acquaint you with ten of the more important leftwing films I have reviewed over the past sixteen years as a member of New York Film Critics Online. You will not see listed familiar works such as “The Battle of Algiers” but instead those that deserve wider attention, the proverbial neglected masterpieces. They originate from different countries and are available through Internet streaming, either freely from Youtube or through Netflix or Amazon rental. In several instances you will be referred to film club websites that like the films under discussion deserve wider attention since they are the counterparts to the small, independent theaters where such films get premiered. The country of origin, date and director will be identified next ot the title, followed by a summary of the film, and finally by its availability.