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A Girl Named Mahmoud
''A Girl Named Mahmoud'' ( ar, بنت اسمها محمود; ''Bint Ismaha Maĥmood'') is a 1975 Egyptian comedy film directed by Niasi Mustafa. Samar Habib, author of ''Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations'', wrote that the film "exploits the genre of transvestism as comedy" and that "several homoerotic images can be presented safely and innocently to mainstream audiences" through a female character pretending to be a male.Habib, p126 She explained that because no characters consciously desire those of the same sex and because Ĥamida is still a woman, the film puts the audience "at ease".Habib, p129 Habib added that "the question of hether homoeroticism is forbidden in religiondoes not surface so much as the issues of cultural belief, perhaps because the two can sometimes be interchangeable." Habib concluded that the film does not successfully thoroughly examine homoerotic desire and that the film "attempts to rationalize homosexuality as a form ...
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Niasi Mustafa
Niazi Mostafa ( arz, نيازي مصطفى) was an Egyptian film director. Egyptian Cinema Egyptian movie critic Samīr Farīd wrote that Mostafa was one of " e most important directors in the history of Egyptian cinema". In 1936, he directed several promotional documentaries for Egypt Bank group companies. Works * '' Salama Is Safe'' or ''Everything is Fine'' (1938) - ''Salama fi khair'' * '' Si Omar'' (1941) - ''Si ʿOmar''Armes, p158 * ''The Wife Factory'' (1941) - ''Masnaa El-Zawgât'' * ''Rabha'' (1943) - ''Râbha'' * '' The Valley of Stars'' (1943) - ''Wâdî El-Negoum'' * '' Hababa'' (1944) - ''Habâbah'' * '' Hassan and Hassan'' (1944) - ''Hassan we Hassan'' * '' The Magic Cap'' (1944) - ''Tâeyyet El-Ekhfaʾ''Armes, p159 * '' Mohamed-Ali Street'' (1944) - ''Share' Mohamed ʻAlî'' * ''My Daughter'' (1944) - ''Ibnatî'' * '' Antar and Abla'' (1945) - ''ʿAntar we Abla'' * ''The Human Being'' (1945) - ''El-Banî âdam'' * '' Miss Boussa'' (1945) - ''El-Ânisah Boussah'' ...
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Transvestism
Transvestism is the practice of dressing in a manner traditionally associated with the opposite sex. In some cultures, transvestism is practiced for religious, traditional, or ceremonial reasons. The term is considered outdated in Western cultures, especially when used to describe a transgender or gender-fluid person. History Though the term was coined as late as the 1910s by Magnus Hirschfeld, the phenomenon is not new. It was referred to in the Hebrew Bible. Being part of the homosexual movement of Weimar Germany in the beginning, a first transvestite movement of its own started to form since the mid-1920s, resulting in founding first organizations and the first transvestite magazine, '' Das 3. Geschlecht''. The rise of Nazism stopped this movement from 1933 onwards. Terminology The word has undergone several changes of meaning since it was first coined and is still used in a variety of senses. Today, the term ''transvestite'' is commonly considered outdated and derogato ...
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Suhair Ramzi
Soheir Ramzi (; born 3 March 1950) is an Egyptian actress. Early life and career Her mother is Dorreya Ahmed who is also an actress. Ramzi's first appearance in the cinema when she was approximately six years old, through their appearance in the movie "Sahefet Sawaba" in 1956, but she decided to stop. She worked as an air hostess and then as a model. She returned to cinema in 1969. Ramzi acted in Elnas elly Gwa, Pleasure and Suffering, The Guilty, A Girl Named Mahmoud, Chitchat on the Nile. The last role for her was in series ''Habeeb El roh'' in 2006, she wore a hijab and retired after that. Personal life Ramzi married many times. Her first husband was the artist Ibrahim Khan, who lived with her for a year. She also married the Saudi Prince Khalid bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, who was famous for his many marriages to actresses and remained with her for a year, then they separated. She married an Egyptian businessman, the owner of Al-Masry SC, Sayed Motwali, then Kuw ...
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Routledge
Routledge () is a British multinational publisher. It was founded in 1836 by George Routledge, and specialises in providing academic books, journals and online resources in the fields of the humanities, behavioural science, education, law, and social science. The company publishes approximately 1,800 journals and 5,000 new books each year and their backlist encompasses over 70,000 titles. Routledge is claimed to be the largest global academic publisher within humanities and social sciences. In 1998, Routledge became a subdivision and imprint of its former rival, Taylor & Francis Group (T&F), as a result of a £90-million acquisition deal from Cinven, a venture capital group which had purchased it two years previously for £25 million. Following the merger of Informa and T&F in 2004, Routledge became a publishing unit and major imprint within the Informa "academic publishing" division. Routledge is headquartered in the main T&F office in Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxfordshire and ...
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1975 Films
The year 1975 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films North America The top ten 1975 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: International The highest-grossing 1975 films in countries outside of North America. Worldwide gross The following table lists known worldwide gross figures for several high-grossing films that originally released in 1975. Note that this list is incomplete and is therefore not representative of the highest-grossing films worldwide in 1975. This list also includes gross revenue from later re-releases. Events *March 26: The film version of The Who's ''Tommy'' premieres in London. *May: In order to create the necessary special effects for his film, ''Star Wars'', George Lucas forms Industrial Light and Magic. *June 20: ''Jaws'' is released and becomes the highest-grossing movie of all-time and the highest-grossing movie of the year and the first movie to earn $100 million in US and Canadian theatr ...
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Egyptian LGBT-related Films
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