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Asmaa
''Asmaa'' or ''Asma'a'' ( ar, أسماء) is a 2011 Egyptian drama film, and is the first such feature film to present AIDS patients sympathetically. Written and directed by Amr Salama, the film tells the history of a woman with HIV who struggles to live under the burden of keeping her HIV status secret, and then the dilemma she faces when offered the opportunity to appear on a television talk show. It is based on a true story of a woman who died from a burst gallbladder after doctors refused to operate on her because she had AIDS. The director, Amr Salama, intended the film to raise awareness about AIDS: in his words, to correct the "misconceptions and lies" about the disease, since more people are dying from the misconceptions than from the lack of treatment. The film is not about AIDS, but rather the battle against social prejudice in Egypt, and about "love, courage, overcoming fear, and fighting for personal rights". Background In the late 1980s and early 1990s, very frigh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amr Salama
Amr Salama ( ar, عمرو سلامة; born 22 November 1982) is an Egyptian film director, blogger, screenwriter, and author. Film career Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, he later moved with his family back to Egypt. He began his directing career primarily with short movies and commercials, after which he shifted to full-length movies. Amr Salama's released his first feature movie, ''Zay El Naharda'' (''On a Day Like Today'') in 2008. In 2009, Salama submitted the script for a second movie, '' Excuse My French'', based on, by his own admission, his experiences at a public middle school in Egypt after his return from Saudi Arabia. ''Excuse My French'' tells the story of Hany Abdulla Sousa, a student at a private international school who comes from a Coptic family. After the death of his father the family's socio-economic status drops and he is forced to go to a public school, where he is routinely confronted with episodes of bullying on the part of his classmates. Rejected by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hend Sabry
Hend Sabry ( ar, هند صبري, born 20 November 1979) is a Tunisian people, Tunisian Egyptians, Egyptian actress working in Cinema of Egypt, Egypt. Career Sabry starred as "'Ola" in the Egyptian Television Network, Egyptian television drama ''Ayza Atgawez'' as a character obsessed with getting married, who goes through dozens of prospective fiancés. She works continuously in the Cinema of Egypt, Egyptian cinema and resides in Cairo. In 2010 she was appointed an ambassador against hunger by the UN World Food Programme. ''Arabian Business'' listed her among the "100 most powerful Arab women" in 2013. She was on the cover of the Tunivisions people magazine in June 2011. She is also an ambassador for Garnier. Personal life Sabry was engaged for over two years to Syrian actor Bassel Khaiat. Sabry is married to Egyptian businessman Ahmad el Sherif and has dual-nationalities of her home country Tunisia and her country of residence Egypt. Filmography Films Television series ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maged El Kedwany
Maged El-Kedwany aka Maged Nabil Elkedwani اى ماجد نبيل الكدوانى( ar, ماجد الكدواني: born: 10 December 1967) is an Egyptian actor. He began acting in the 1990s, playing supporting roles. He won the Muhr Arab - Feature Best Actor Award for his role in ''678'' from Dubai International Film Festival. He's worked on dozens of films, among them are some of the most well-known films of the 1990s, like ''Afareet el-Asphalt'' (Asphalt Ghosts) in 1996 and ''Saidi fe Gamea al-Amrikeya'' (Saidi at the American University) in 1998. His other films include ''Harameya Ki-Gi-To'' (Ki-Gi-To Thieves), ''Harameya fe Thailand'' (Thieves in Thailand), ''Al-Ragel al-Abyad al-Motawast'' (Average White Guy), and ''Khaly min Kolesterol'' (Cholesterol-Free). In 2012, he appeared in two high-profile movies, ''Hafla Montasif al-Leil'' (Midnight Party) and ''Saaa we Nos'' (Hour and a Half). Amongst the theatrical productions that he has performed in are “Pallo” and “Diw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hany Adel
Hany Adel ( ar, هاني عادل; born September 8, 1976) is an Egyptian guitarist, vocalist, and screen actor. He was born September 8, 1976, and is the founding member of the Arabic language band Wust El-Balad. He has also played significant supporting roles in a number of contemporary Egyptian films dealing with controversial social and political issues facing Arab society. These films include Microphone (2010), a film about Egypt's culture wars, Asmaa (2011) about a woman living in Cairo with HIV/AIDS, the 2013 film Fatat El Masnaa ("Factory Girl") about gender and class discrimination in modern Egyptian society and the movie Ishtibak ("Clash") set after the political events of June 2013. Adel is married to Lebanese actress Diamand Bou Abboud Diamand Abou Abooud is a Lebanese actress, working in Europe and the Arab world, specifically Lebanon and Egypt. Early life and education Diamand Abou Abboud studied drama at the Lebanese University's Institute of Fine Arts, Depart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Century Production
New Century Production ( ar, نيوسينشري للانتاج الفني) is an Egyptian film production company established by Walid Al Kurdi in 2004 as a new production branch of Dollar Film, itself first founded in 1949. Filmography References External links * New Century Productionat the Internet Movie Database IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, ... Mass media companies established in 2004 Film production companies of Egypt Egyptian companies established in 2004 {{Film-company-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HIV/AIDS In Egypt
With less than 1 percent of the population estimated to be HIV-positive, Egypt is a low-HIV-prevalence country. However, between the years 2006 and 2011, HIV prevalence rates in Egypt increased tenfold. Until 2011, the average number of new cases of HIV in Egypt was 400 per year. But, in 2012 and 2013 it increased to about 600 new cases and in 2014 it reached 880 new cases per year. According to UNAIDS 2016 statistics, there are about 11,000 people currently living with HIV in Egypt. The Ministry of Health and Population reported in 2020 over 13000 Egyptians are living with HIV/AIDS. However, unsafe behaviors among most-at-risk populations and limited condom usage among the general population place Egypt at risk of a broader epidemic. Among officially reported cases, heterosexual intercourse is the primary mode of transmission of HIV (49.1 percent), followed by homosexual intercourse (22.9 percent), renal dialysis (12 percent), and blood transfusion (6.2 percent), according to the Na ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Films
The following is an overview of the events of 2011 in film, including the highest-grossing films, film festivals, award ceremonies and a list of films released and notable deaths. More film sequels were released in 2011 than any other year before it, with 28 sequels released. Evaluation of the year Richard Brody of ''The New Yorker'' observed that the best films of 2011 "exalt the metaphysical, the fantastical, the transformative, the fourth-wall-breaking, or simply the impossible, and—remarkably—do so ... These films depart from 'reality' ... not in order to forget the irrefutable but in order to face it, to think about it, to act on it more freely". Film critic and filmmaker Scout Tafoya of '' RogerEbert.com'' considers the year of 2011 as the best year for cinema, countering the notion of 1939 being film's best year overall, citing examples such as ''Drive'', ''The Tree of Life'', ''Once Upon a Time in Anatolia'', ''Keyhole'', '' Contagion'', ''The Adventures of Tintin'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 Drama Films
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2010s Arabic-language Films
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Fribourg International Film Festival
The Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF) is an annual film festival in Fribourg, Switzerland. It is focused on selected films from Asia, Africa and Latin America. The Grand Prize is the main award of the Fribourg International Film Festival. The Festival FIFF aims to promote the understanding between the cultures and more particularly between the so-called North and South. It gives preference to films that stimulate reflection and provoke discussion. In 1980, Magda Bossy, working for the Swiss NGO Helvetas, organized an event in honour of the 25th anniversary of the French-speaking Swiss association. Convinced that film would be an excellent medium for expressing cultural richness, the Egyptian native thinks to open the floor to filmmakers from the South. Its success – although varying city to city – calls for a second edition. In 1983, the second edition was entitled "Festival de Films du Tiers-Monde" (Third-World Film Festival). In 1992, the Festival de Films de Fribo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The National (Abu Dhabi)
''The National'' is a private English-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The newspaper is owned by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan, the deputy prime minister of the United Arab Emirates and member of the royal family of Abu Dhabi. History and profile ''The National'' was first published on 17 April 2008 by Abu Dhabi Media. The government-owned media company ran the newspaper along with other publications, including ''Al-Ittihad'', '' Majid'', ''Zahrat Al Khaleej'' and ''National Geographic Al Arabiya'' (in partnership with ''National Geographic''). In 2016, ''The National'' was acquired by International Media Investments, a subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Media Investment Corporation, a private investment company owned by Mansour bin Zayed Al Nahyan that is also part-owner of Sky News Arabia. Under new ownership, ''The National'' was relaunched in July 2017, a move marked by relocation to new headquarters and the opening of a foreign bureau in L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Ahram Weekly
''Al-Ahram Weekly'' is an English-language weekly broadsheet printed by the Al-Ahram Publishing House in Cairo, Egypt. History and profile ''Al Ahram Weekly'' was established in 1991 by the ''Al-Ahram'' newspaper, which also runs a French-language weekly version, ''Al-Ahram Hebdo''. Between 1991 and 2003, founder Hosni Guindi, served as the editor-in-chief and Hani Shukrallah as managing editor and co-founder Mona Anis as deputy editor-in-chief. After Hosni's death in 2003, Shukrallah succeeded him as acting editor. In 2005 Egypt's Shura Council appointed Assem El-Qersh as the paper's editor-in-chief, replacing Shukrallah. In June 2014, Galal Nassar was appointed editor-in-chief of the weekly. The circulation of the magazine in 2000 was 50,000 copies. See also * List of magazines in Egypt *Sherif Sonbol Sherif Sonbol (born December 6, 1956) is an Egyptian photographer specializing in architecture, scenic fine arts and photojournalism. Early life Sonbol was born in Giz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
