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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] |
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 It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries).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] |
A Woman With A Bad Reputation
''A Woman With a Bad Reputation'' ( ar, امرأة سيئة السمعة "Imraah sayiah al-samah") is a 1973 Egyptian film directed by Henry BarakatArmes, p388 and starring Shams al-Baroudi.Anderson, Lisa. "Egypt's cultural shift reflects Islam's pull." ''Chicago Tribune''. March 21, 2004. p3 Retrieved on February 21, 2013. Plot A young man asks his wife to dance with his boss at a party. The woman gets into an affair with the boss and commits infidelity. Her marriage dissolves and her life worsens. Her son has an illness, so the wife is forced to accept gifts from the boss. Lisa Anderson of the ''Chicago Tribune''. uses the film as an example of more liberal filmmaking in Egypt prior to an increase in social conservatism in society. At the party in the beginning of the film, the women wear hot pants and miniskirts. The partygoers dance, smoke cigarettes, and drink alcohol. None of the women are in hijab. Cast * Shams al-Baroudi * Yousuf Shaaban * Salama Elias * Nagwa Fouad * Em ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coptic Christians
Copts ( cop, ⲛⲓⲣⲉⲙⲛ̀ⲭⲏⲙⲓ ; ar, الْقِبْط ) are a Christian ethnoreligious group indigenous to North Africa who have primarily inhabited the area of modern Egypt and Sudan since antiquity. Most ethnic Copts are Coptic Oriental Orthodox Christians. They are the largest Christian denomination in Egypt and the Middle East, as well as in Sudan and Libya. Copts have historically spoken the Coptic language, a direct descendant of the Demotic Egyptian that was spoken in late antiquity. Originally referring to all Egyptians at first, the term ''Copt'' became synonymous with native Christians in light of Egypt's Islamization and Arabization after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in the 7th century. Copts in Egypt account for roughly 5–20 percent of the Egyptian population, although the exact percentage is unknown; Copts in Sudan account for 1 percent of the Sudanese population while Copts in Libya similarly account for 1 percent of the Libyan pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Directors From Cairo
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photographing actual scenes with a motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still images were recorded on a strip of chemically sensitized ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Deaths
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of the most observed comets of the 20th century; Golden Bauhinia Square, where sovereignty of Hong Kong is handed over from the United Kingdom to the People's Republic of China; the 1997 Central European flood kills 114 people in the Czech Republic, Poland, and Germany; Korean Air Flight 801 crashes during heavy rain on Guam, killing 229; Mars Pathfinder and Sojourner land on Mars; flowers left outside Kensington Palace following the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, in a car crash in Paris., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Titanic (1997 film) rect 200 0 400 200 Harry Potter rect 400 0 600 200 Comet Hale-Bopp rect 0 200 300 400 Death of Diana, Princess of Wales rect 300 200 600 400 Handover of Hong Kong rect 0 400 200 600 Mars Pathfind ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 Births
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line. Events January * January 1 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Tony Jannus (the first federally-licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure. * January 11 – The Sakurajima volcano in Japan begins to erupt, becoming effusive after a very large earthquake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press, also known as IU Press, is an academic publisher founded in 1950 at Indiana University that specializes in the humanities and social sciences. Its headquarters are located in Bloomington, Indiana. IU Press publishes 140 new books annually, in addition to 39 academic journals, and maintains a current catalog comprising some 2,000 titles. Indiana University Press primarily publishes in the following areas: African, African American, Asian, cultural, Jewish, Holocaust, Middle Eastern studies, Russian and Eastern European, and women's and gender studies; anthropology, film studies, folklore, history, bioethics, music, paleontology, philanthropy, philosophy, and religion. IU Press undertakes extensive regional publishing under its Quarry Books imprint. History IU Press began in 1950 as part of Indiana University's post-war growth under President Herman B Wells. Bernard Perry, son of Harvard philosophy professor Ralph Barton Perry, served as the first d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Top 100 Egyptian Films
Top 100 Egyptian films aliases: CIFF 100 Egyptian films or Greatest 100 Egyptian films in 20th century or Top 100 films in the centenary of Egyptian cinema (Egyptian Arabic: قائمة أفضل مئة فيلم في مئوية السينما المصرية) is the result of a referendum in which many Egyptian critics participated in 1996 to choose the 100 best Egyptian films of the 20th century, as part of the activities of the Cairo International Film Festival in its 20th edition, on the occasion of the centenary of Egyptian cinema, which coincides with the first film screening in Egypt in 1896. The films were selected from 1927 (where ''Layla'' was shown, the first Egyptian feature-length film) until 1996, and were announced during the celebration that was held in 1996. The referendum was supervised by the writer Saad Eddin Wahba. Top 10 films Full list Record numbers As an actor and producer, Salah Zulfikar has a share of 13 films in the list, 5 of which as a producer (inclu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lists Of Egyptians
The following is a list of some of the notable Egyptians inside and outside of Egypt: Actors Male actors * Abdel Moneim Madbouly * Adel Emam * Ahmed Zaki * Ahmed El Sakka * Ahmed Ezz * Ahmed Helmy * Ahmed Mekky * Ahmed Ramzy * Ali Mansur * Amr Waked * Anwar Wagdy * Emad Hamdy * Ezzat Abou Aouf * Fareed Shawky * George Sidhom * Hassan Youssef * Hussein Fahmy * Ismail Yaseen * Kamal El Shennawy * Kal Naga * Mostafa Amar * Mena Massoud * Mohamed Emam * Mohamed Ramadan * Nour El-Sherif * Omar Sharif, Academy Award nominee * Rushdy Abaza * Rami Malek * Ramy Youssef * Saeed Saleh * Salah Zulfikar * Samir Ghanem * Shoukry Sarhan * Stephan Rosti * Yehia Chahine Actresses * Amena Rizk * Assia Dagher * Asmaa Abulyazeid * Bushra * Faten Hamama * Hanan Tork * Hend Rostom * Laila Elwi * Lebleba * Leila Mourad * Lobna Abdel Aziz * Mariam Fakhr Eddine * Mary Queeny * May Calamawy * Mona Zaki * Nermin Al-Fiqy * Nelly Karim * Shadia * Sherihan * Shwik ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
10th Berlin International Film Festival
The 10th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 24 June to 5 July 1960. The Golden Bear was awarded to the Spanish film ''El Lazarillo de Tormes'' directed by César Fernández Ardavín. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: International feature film jury * Harold Lloyd, actor, director and producer (United States) - Jury President * Georges Auric, composer (France) * Henry Reed, composer (United Kingdom) * Sohrab Modi, actor, director and producer (India) * Floris Luigi Ammannati, director of the Venice Film Festival (Italy) * Hidemi Ima, director (Japan) * Joaquín de Entrambasaguas, philologist and historiographer (Spain) * Frank Wisbar, director and screenwriter (West Germany) * Georg Ramseger, writer (West Germany) * Werner R. Heymann, composer (West Germany) * Eva Staar (West Germany) International documentary and short jury * Johannes Eckardt, film curator (West Germany) - Jury President * Tahar Cheriaa, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
9th Berlin International Film Festival
The 9th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 7 July 1959. The festival welcomed the cinematic movement known as the New Wave and screened the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and François Truffaut. The Golden Bear was awarded to the French film '' Les Cousins'' directed by Claude Chabrol. Jury The following people were announced as being on the jury for the festival: International feature film jury * Robert Aldrich, director (United States) - Jury President * Johan Jacobsen, director, screenwriter and producer (Denmark) * Charles Ford, writer and filmmaker (France) * John Bryan, production designer (United Kingdom) * Ignazio Tranquilli, writer and playwright (Italy) * Shigeo Miyata, painter and physician (Japan) * Wali Eddine Sameh, director (United Arab Emirates) * O. E. Hasse, actor (West Germany) * Gerhard Prager, writer and producer (West Germany) * Fritz Podehl, producer (West Germany) * Walther Schmieding, jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wicked Game (film)
''Wicked Game'' (Egyptian Arabic: لعبة الأشرار translit: ''Loubat El Ashrar'' or ''Luebat al'ashrar or Lou’bat Al-Achrar'' aliases: ''The Game of the Wicked'') is an Egyptian crime thriller released in 1991. The film stars Salah Zulfikar and is directed by Henry Barakat. Synopsis Author Riyad Kamel marries the beautiful Camelia despite her previous relationship with Azmi, his lawyer. While Azmi marries Manar, who is Raiyad's secretary. Manar suspects that Azmi and Camellia are back together. She records a tape for Camelia urging Azmi to kill Manar and Riyad, so she plots to take them down. Main cast * Salah Zulfikar * Athar El-Hakim Athar El-Hakim (born 24 August 1957) is an Egyptian actress. Biography El-Hakim attended Ain Shams University and earned a degree in English. She subsequently worked in public relations at a hotel. El-Hakim also modelled and worked as radio ann ... * Samir Sabri * Safaa El Sabaa * Awatef Abdel Fattah * Ziad Mukouk * Salah Azzam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
