In memoriam:
Abbas Mahmoud Al-Aqqad (28 June 1889-12 March 1964)
The 25th anniversary of the death of the luminary Abbas Mahmoud Al-Aqqad, writes Salonez Sami, is an occasion to remember not only his seminal contributions as writer, historian, poet, (...)
Salonez Sami traces the silver screen's emergence in Egypt
FIRST MOVIE: It was in 1927 that the first Egyptian feature film, Qubla fil Sahara (A Kiss in the Desert), was made. The movie was written, directed and produced by Ibrahim Lama, an American (...)
