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Ashraf Abdel Baqi
Ashraf Abdel Baqi (Arabic:أشرف عبد الباقي, born in 1963) is an Egyptian actor. Early life Ashraf Abdel Baqi was born in Hada'iq El Qobbah, he was the youngest, having 5 older siblings, three brothers and two sisters. He attended Ahmed Maher Elementary School, and Graduated from Nokrashy High school. At 12 years old Ashraf started working with his father as a contractor, devoting his time during summer and winter breaks to helping in the workshop. He started acting at the age of 16 in high school taking part in over 80 plays, whether front or backstage. During this time his parents disapproved of the idea of acting, his mother especially, as she was afraid of it affecting his education. However, Abdel Baqi's Parents later changed their opinion after he received support from his older brother, who took them to see one of Ashraf's plays. At 18, he opened up his own workshop specializing in Aluminum and different metals. Abdel Baqi then went on to study at Ain Shams Univ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Barakat
Henry Antoun Barakat ( ar, هنري أنطون بركات, 11 June 1914, Cairo – 27 May 1997, Cairo) was a well known Egyptian film director. He was born in Shubra to a Melkite Greek Catholic father of Syro-Lebanese descent, and a Syro-Lebanese mother. His father, Dr. Antoun Barakat, was a physician and received the title of Beik by the King for the services he rendered., He directed some of the most famous films in the Egyptian Cinema. Filmography Awards and honors 2 wins & 3 nominations Berlin International Film Festival *1959 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear Hassan wa Nayima (1959) * 1960 Nominated Golden Berlin Bear Doa al karawan (1959) Cannes Film Festival *1965 Nominated Golden Palm El Haram, (1965) Jakarta Film Festival *1964 Won Best Film Bab el maftuh, El (1964) Valencia Festival of Mediterranean Cinema *1984 Won Special Mention Leilet al quabd al Fatma (1984) Egypt State Incentive Prize in Arts and Letters of the Supreme Council of Culture, 1995. See a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian Male Film Actors
Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of recorded history ** Egyptian cuisine, the local culinary traditions of Egypt * Egypt, the modern country in northeastern Africa ** Egyptian Arabic, the language spoken in contemporary Egypt ** A citizen of Egypt; see Demographics of Egypt * Ancient Egypt, a civilization from c. 3200 BC to 343 BC ** Ancient Egyptians, ethnic people of ancient Egypt ** Ancient Egyptian architecture, the architectural structure style ** Ancient Egyptian cuisine, the cuisine of ancient Egypt ** Egyptian language, the oldest known language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family * Copts, the ethnic Egyptian Christian minority ** Coptic language or Coptic Egyptian, the latest stage of the Egyptian language, spoken in Egypt until the 17th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian Comedians
Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of recorded history ** Egyptian cuisine, the local culinary traditions of Egypt * Egypt, the modern country in northeastern Africa ** Egyptian Arabic, the language spoken in contemporary Egypt ** A citizen of Egypt; see Demographics of Egypt * Ancient Egypt, a civilization from c. 3200 BC to 343 BC ** Ancient Egyptians, ethnic people of ancient Egypt ** Ancient Egyptian architecture, the architectural structure style ** Ancient Egyptian cuisine, the cuisine of ancient Egypt ** Egyptian language, the oldest known language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family * Copts, the ethnic Egyptian Christian minority ** Coptic language or Coptic Egyptian, the latest stage of the Egyptian language, spoken in Egypt until the 17th century, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Births
Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove River, Sydney, Australia. * January 2 – Vietnam War – Battle of Ap Bac: The Viet Cong win their first major victory. * January 9 – A total penumbral lunar eclipse is visible in the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and is the 56th lunar eclipse of Lunar Saros 114. Gamma has a value of −1.01282. It occurs on the night between Wednesday, January 9 and Thursday, January 10, 1963. * January 13 – 1963 Togolese coup d'état: A military coup in Togo results in the installation of coup leader Emmanuel Bodjollé as president. * January 17 – A last quarter moon occurs between the penumbral lunar eclipse and the annular solar eclipse, only 12 hours, 29 minutes after apogee. * January 19 – Soviet spy Ghe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Kids Are All Right (game Show)
''The Kids Are All Right'' is a British game show that aired on for BBC One from 12 April to 14 June 2008, hosted by John Barrowman. It shares some similarities with '' Are You Smarter than a 10 Year Old?'', which airs on Sky One Sky One was a British pay television channel operated and owned by Sky Group (a division of Comcast). Originally launched on 26 April 1982 as Satellite Television, it was Europe's first satellite and non-terrestrial channel. From 31 July 1989, .... It also shares similarities with '' Eggheads'', in that it centres on ordinary people trying to beat a team of super-intelligent ones. The auditions were held in 2007 with the children asked to come to a studio with their parents; they were asked to answer questions about themselves, and had to answer a questionnaire. Sadboiz International versions References External links *Chilean version [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Play That Goes Wrong
''The Play That Goes Wrong'' is a 2012 play by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer, and Henry Shields of Mischief Theatre Company. It won Best New Comedy at the 2015 Laurence Olivier Awards. As of September 2021, the show has been running since 2012 in London; since 2014, the play has undertaken five tours of the UK. Plot Before the play starts the audience see the backstage staff doing last-minute adjustments to the set, including trying to mend a broken mantelpiece and find a dog that has run off. The fictitious Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society (Cornley University in the American version), fresh from such hits as '' Two Sisters'', '' The Lion and The Wardrobe'', ''Cat'', and '' James and the Peach'' (or ''James, Where's your Peach?''), has received a substantial bequest and is putting on a performance of ''The Murder at Haversham Manor'' – a 1920s murder mystery play, similar to ''The Mousetrap'', which has the right number of parts for the members. The script was written ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khaled El Hagar
Khaled El Hagar is an Egyptian film director. He studied law at Cairo University and has worked in film since 1985. His first short film, ''You Are My Life'' (1985), won best film award at the Oberhausen festival. He then completed a postgraduate degree at the National Film and Television School, and directed his second short film, "Doody's Dream". His first feature, "Little Dreams", was screened at 37 festivals and won awards at Birmingham, Amiens, and FESPACO in Burkina Faso. He moved to Birmingham, UK, in the 1990s, and has become well known on the film scene in the city, screening new films and collecting awards in the Birmingham International Film Festival. Recent years have seen a growing acceptance in Cairo, where he has been filming regularly, producing multi-award winning movies, and becoming established as an important Director in the Arabic world. , starring Juliette Lewis and French actor Said Taghmaoui, first brought Khaled's talents to the attention of the interna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inas El-Degheidy
Inas El Degheidy (born 10 March 1953) is an Egyptian film director. Inas directs films of social and realistic essence, often by using explicit scenes; this has made her being labelled as "controversial". While her films often analyze women's struggles in society, she does not like the term "women's cinema". Life Inas El Degheidy was born in Cairo, one of eight children of a conservative, middle-class family. Her father taught Arabic. while he was strict, he was the only one to support her in her family when she wanted to go to film school. She graduated from the Cinema Institute in 1975, and directed her first film ''Pardon Law'' in 1985. Her movie ''Al-Samt'' (Silence) tackles the subject of a woman sexually abused by her father. The Egyptian Board of Censors has demanded that the script be modified to ensure the father is portrayed as mentally diseased and thus unrepresentative of the general Egyptian male figure.Mohammad Abdel RahmanInas Al Degheidy: Breaking Taboos in an Ag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ashraf Fahmy
Ashraf Fahmy (Arabic: أشرف فهمي 25 August 1936 – 25 January 2001) was an Egyptian film director, active in the Egyptian film industry since the late 1960s. He was credited with launching his career and directing his first feature film (The Killers – '' Arabic: القتلة'') starring the leading film star Salah Zulfikar making huge commercial success. Fahmy is a daring director frequently seen in film festivals worldwide, in addition he wrote the script of three films including (Until The End of Lifetime – '' Arabic: حتى آخر العمر ''), which is considered his most memorable movie. Early academic life Ashraf Fahmy earned a Bachelor degree of Arts (History major) from the Cairo University in 1961, then he graduated from the Egyptian High Cinema Institute in Giza (first class) in 1963 to start his career in the Egyptian cinema, after that he studied Directing at the University of California from 1964 until 1967. Starting as a director Fahmy worked as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tarek Al Eryan
Tarek Alarian ( ar, طارق العريان) (born September 12, 1963) is a Palestinian-Egyptian film director. He is also credited as Tarek El'eryan and Tarek Eryan. Education Alarian holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in both Communication and also Cinema and Photography from Southern Illinois University. Professional experience * August 1986-May 1988: Executive Producer AAA (Film Production and Studios) Athens, Greece. * 1987- Ongoing: Director, Producer, Screenwriter Freelance. * July 1988-March 1993: Executive Producer Raid Alarian Film Production (Feature Film Production Distribution). * March 1993-April 2005: Founder and CEO Online (Film, Music Video Production and Advertising Agency). * June 1999 – 2001: Founder and CEO Framework (Feature Film Production). * February 2003: Founder and CEO Fame Music (Music Label and Talent Management Company). * August 2005-Ongoing: Founder and CEO Stargate (Music Label and Talent Management Company). * November 2005-Ongoing: Partne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrorism And Kebab
''Terrorism and Kebab'' ( ar, الإرهاب والكباب, transliterated: Al-irhab wal kabab) is a popular 1992 Egyptian black comedy film starring Adel Emam.Hedges, Chris (18 November 1992).Cairo Journal; That's Entertainment. But Is It Blasphemy, Too? ''The New York Times'', Retrieved December 13, 2010 Plot The action primarily takes place in The Mogamma in Cairo, a well-known mammoth-sized government building that is a center of bureaucratic work.Eltahawy, Mona (13 September 2005)The Real Surprise in Egypt ''Asharq Al-Awsat'', Retrieved December 13, 2010(2 September 1992)Egypt's Media Target Islam With government backing, film and TV scriptwriters openly criticize religious extremism in their works ''The Christian Science Monitor'', Retrieved December 14, 2010Murphy, Kim (24 May 1993)Woe Awaits in Tower of Babble ''Los Angeles Times'', Retrieved December 14, 2010 Adel Imam's character, Ahmed, queues up at the Mogamma one day to try to get a school transfer for his children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
