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Marwan Hamed
Marwan Hamed ( ar, مروان حامد; born May 29, 1977) is a young Egyptian film director.Adil M. Asgarov, 'Hamed, Marwan (1977–)', Biographical Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa'. He is the son of author Wahid Hamed and journalist Zeinab Sweidan. His debut was a short film entitled ''Li Li'' followed by a major feature film entitled'' The Yacoubian Building (film), The Yacoubian Building ''based on a novel by Alaa Al Aswany and starring Adel Emam. He has taken part in direction of the series ''Lahzat Harija'' and has filmed a music video for Amr Diab. ''The Yacoubian Building'' was followed by ''Ibrahim Labyad'' starring Ahmed El-Sakka and Hend Sabry and was released in 2009. Then he released The Blue Elephant starring actor Karim Abdel Aziz and Khaled Al Sawy, and is based on Ahmed Mourad's novel of the same name. His last released film is The Originals (film), The Originals starting Khaled el Sawy, Maged el Kedwany and Menna Shalby References Exte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt, while Alexandria, the second-largest city, is an important industrial and tourist hub at the Mediterranean coast. At approximately 100 million inhabitants, Egypt is the 14th-most populated country in the world. Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wahid Hamed
Wahid Hamed ( ar, وحيد حامد; 1 July 1944 – 2 January 2021) was an Egyptian screenwriter. Personal life Hamed was born in Beni Quraysh, Sharqia Governorate. He moved to Cairo in 1963 to study in the Department of Sociology at Cairo University. He was married to Zeinab Sweidan, with whom he had his son, Marwan. Work as a screenwriter According to ''Egypt Independent''; "Hamed was concerned with Egyptian society and important issues within the country, and was able to eloquently narrate Egypt’s conditions, dreams, and history." He worked with a number of directors, including Samir Seif, Sherif Arafa and Atef El-Tayeb. He won several awards for his work. In 2020, he won the Golden Pyramid Appreciation Award from the 42nd Cairo International Film Festival for Lifetime Achievement. Death Hamed died on 2 January 2021 at the age of 76 in Cairo, Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the north ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Yacoubian Building (film)
''The Yacoubian Building'' ( ar, عمارة يعقوبيان, transliterated: ''ʿImārat Yaʿqūbīān'' or ''Omaret Yakobean'') is a 2006 Egyptian film based on the novel of the same title by author Alaa Al Aswany. It has been reported to be the highest-budgeted film in the history of Egyptian cinema. Background Like the novel ostensibly set in 1990 at about the time of the first Gulf War, the film is a scathing portrayal of modern Egyptian society since the coup d'état of 1952. The setting is downtown Cairo, with the titular apartment building (which actually exists) serving as both a metaphor for contemporary Egypt and a unifying location in which most of the primary characters either live or work and in which much of the action takes place. The actual namesake Yacoubian building, constructed in the Art Deco style, still stands in downtown Cairo at the address given in the novel: 34 Talaat Harb Street (referred to by its old name, Suleiman Basha Street, by both native Caire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novel
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histori ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alaa Al Aswany
Alaa Al Aswany ( ar, علاء الأسواني, ; born 26 May 1957) is an Egyptian writer, novelist, and a founding member of the political movement Kefaya. Early life and career Al Aswany was born on 26 May 1957 in Cairo. His mother, Zainab, came from an aristocratic family; her uncle was a Pasha and Minister of Education before the Egyptian Revolution of 1952. His father, Abbas Al Aswany, was from Aswan (in Lower Nubia) and was a lawyer and writer who "is remembered as being a captivating and charismatic speaker with a broad following and loyalty within a cross-section of the Egyptian revolutionary intelligentsia". Abbas Al Aswany wrote a regular back-page essay in the Egyptian weekly magazine Rose al-Yūsuf entitled ''Aswaaniyat''. In 1972, he was "the recipient of the state award for literature". He died when Alaa was 19 years old. Al Aswany attended Le Lycée Français in Cairo and received a bachelor's degree in dental and oral medicine at Cairo University in 1980. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adel Emam
Adel Emam ( ar, عادل إمام; born 17 May 1940 is an Egyptian film, television, and stage actor. He is primarily a comedian, but he has starred in more serious works and, combined comedy with romance especially in his earlier films, which included ''My Wife, the Director General'', ''My Wife's Dignity'' and ''My Wife's Goblin'' with Salah Zulfikar and Shadia. Emam earned a bachelor's degree in Agriculture from Cairo University. Since then he has appeared in over 103 movies and 10 plays. He is one of the most famous actors in Egypt and the in the Arab world. His contributions to the stage and film industries through addressing social and political issues in film and television earned him a cult following and a worldwide reputation that made him one of the most influential arab public figures in the 80’s and 90’s. Adel Imam is considered by a huge mass of cult followers as a cultural icon in the history of modern Egypt. In January 2000, the United Nations appointed Emam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amr Diab
Amr Diab ( ar, عمرو دياب, link=no, ; born on 11 October 1961) is an Egyptian singer, composer and actor. He has established himself as a globally acclaimed recording artist and author. He is a Guinness World Record holder, the best selling Middle Eastern artist, a seven-times winner of World Music Awards and five-times winner of Platinum Records. Early life Diab was born as Amr Abdel Basset Abdel Azeez Diab (Arabic: عمرو عبد الباسط عبد العزيز دياب) on 11 October 1961 in Port Said to a middle-class Muslim family from the Egyptian countryside of Menia Elamh, in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt. Diab graduated with a bachelor's degree in music from the Cairo Academy of Arts in 1986. Music career Diab released his first album entitled ' in 1983. Diab's second album, ' (1984), was the first of a series of records he released with Delta Sound; including ' (1986), ' (1987), and ' (1988), with the title track becoming one of the top 10 songs in the world at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibrahim Labyad
Ibrahim Labyad ( ar, إبراهيم الأبيض) is a 2009 Egyptian Action drama film directed by Marwan Hamed. Cast * Ahmed El-Sakka - Ibrahim * Hend Sabry - Horeya * Amr Waked - Ashry * Mahmoud Abdel Aziz - Abdul-Malek Zarzur * Bassem Samra - Mahdy * Sawsan Badr Susan Badr ( ar, سوسن بدر) (nicknamed: The Nefertiti of Egyptian Cinema) (born September 25, 1959) is an Egyptian actress of film, stage and television. She received the Best Actress Award at the 34th Cairo International Film Festival. S ... - Horeya's Mother References External links * 2009 action films Egyptian action drama films Films directed by Marwan Hamed {{Egypt-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed El-Sakka
Ahmed Mohamed Salah El Din El Sakka ( ar, أحمد محمد صلاح الدين السقا; born March 1, 1973) is an Egyptian action actor. The son of theatre director Salah El Sakka, he began his career with uncredited roles in a lot of films and television series, until he made his breakthrough role in the Egyptian comedy films ''An Upper Egyptian at the American University'' (1998) and ''Hamam in Amsterdam'' (1999). El Sakka is known for action roles and doing dangerous scenes without any double. He starred in the romantic comedy ''Short, Fanelah & Cap'' (2000), the adventure film '' Africano'' (2001) and the action films ''Mafia'' (2002), ''Tito'' (2004) and ''Italy War'' (2005). He also starred in the romantic drama ''About Love and Passion'' (2006), the biographical film '' The Island'' (2007), the actions ''Taymour and Shafika'' (2007), ''Ibrahim Labyad'' (2009) and '' The Dealer'' (2010), and the comedy drama ''The Consul's Son'' (2010). El Sakka also starred in the comed ... [...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] |
The Blue Elephant
''The Blue Elephant'' ( arz, الفيل الأزرق, Al Fil Al Azraq) is a 2014 Egyptian drama/ horror/mystery film produced and directed by Marwan Hamed in Cairo, Egypt. The story was originally translated into film from a 2012 Arabic novel written by the famous Egyptian writer Ahmed Mourad, and starring Egyptian actors Karim Abdel Aziz, Khaled El Sawy and Nelly Karim. The film talks about a man called Yehia, who unwillingly comes out of isolation after five years, to resume his service in El-Abbaseya psychiatric hospital, where he is in charge of evaluating the mental health of the criminally insane. It was followed by a sequel ''The Blue Elephant 2'' ( ar, 2 الفيل الأزرق, translit. Al Fil Al Azraq 2) released in 2019. According to Ahmed Mourad, writer of the Arabic novel, the book and the film hold two different endings. Director Marwan Hamed proposed a change in the closing scene of the movie to allow the film to adapt and satisfy a large mass of audience. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karim Abdel Aziz
Karim Abdel Aziz ( ar, كريم عبد العزيز) (born August 17, 1975) is an Egyptian actor. He is the son of instructor Mohammad Abdul Aziz and nephew of film director Omar Abdel Aziz Biography Karim Abdel Aziz was born August 17, 1975, in Agouza, Giza. Abdel Aziz was raised by a director with great heritage in the Egyptian cinema, as he is the son of the great director Mohamed Abd El Aziz. This is artistic bringing up influenced him choosing his acting career as he was already familiar with the nature of the business. Abdel Aziz studied in a French School Collège De La Salle in Cairo and graduated from it. Abdel Aziz joined the high institute of cinema in 1994, to start a whole different life since. He graduated from the directing department in 1997 and worked as assistant director for a short period where he was tempted by the sensation of being in front of the camera instead of behind it. This is when he decided to switch to acting instead of directing, until he got h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
