Mustafa Darwish examines the writer's long affair with the cinema
Biographers and critics of Naguib Mahfouz and his work seldom fail to ignore the role played by the cinema in his life, starting from the 1940s when the author was in his mid (...)
The heroines of Youssef Chahine's latest film are mirror images of the director's ego, suggests Mustafa Darwish
There is a cinema that facilitates progress and transformation, and cinema that contributes to social regress. From the paradigms and (...)
By Mustafa Darwish
After a one-month period of quiet, with the coming of the Eid and the release of six new films, the Egyptian film industry has come back to life. Had director Mohamed Youssef's Batal Min Al-Ganoub.... Ya Aziz Eini (A Hero from the (...)
