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Four Women Of Egypt
''Four Women of Egypt'' (original French title ''Quatre femmes d'Égypte'') is a 1997 Canadian-Egyptian documentary film by Tahani Rached. The film revolves around four female friends from Egypt with opposing religious, social, and political views in modern-day Egypt. The film was highly acclaimed and won several awards in documentary film festivals. Cast Wedad Mitry has been a lifelong journalist. A student activist, she was the only woman elected to the Student Union at Cairo University in 1951. That same year she joined the Women's Popular Resistance Committee (founded by the feminist Saiza Nabarawi). Safinaz Kazem, a journalist, theater critic and writer, is the author of many books. In the 1960s, she was a graduate student in the United States-in Kansas, Chicago, and New York. She is the ex-wife of the Egyptian poet Ahmed Fouad Negm and the mother of the political activist and writer Nawara Negm. Shahenda Maklad was active in student and nationalist movements, running as a ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahani Rached
Tahani Rached is a Canadian-Egyptian documentary filmmaker. She is best known for her work '' Four Women of Egypt''. She has directed more than 20 documentary films in her career. Life and career Tahani Rached was born on May 16, 1947 in Cairo, Egypt. In 1966, she moved to Montreal to pursue painting. She was a student at the École des beaux-arts de Montréal where she studied painting for two years. She became more involved with the community and thus, turned to filmmaking. She was hired as a staff filmmaker by Canada's National Film Board in 1981. Rached however, left the Film Board in 2004 to return to Egypt to make films. Selected filmography * Pour faire changement (To Make a Change) - 1973 * '' Where Dollars Grow on Trees (Les voleurs de job)'' - 1980 * '' La phonie furieuse'' - 1982 * '' Beyrouth! Not Enough Death to Go Round'' - 1983 * '' Haïti (Québec)'' - 1985 * '' Bam Pay A! Rends-moi mon pays'' - 1986 * '' Haïti, Nous là! Nou la!'' - 1987 * '' Au chic re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |