''The Terrorist'' ( ar, الإرهابي, transliterated: Al-Erhabi) is a popular 1994

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ian film by Nader Galal and starring

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Salah Zulfikar Salah El Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar ( ar, صلاح ذو الفقار; ; 18 January 1926 – 22 December 1993) was an Egyptian actor and film producer. He started his career as a police officer in the Egyptian National Police, before becoming an ac ...

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. The film is Salah Zulfikar's last film role.

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Adel Imam 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 ...

(Brother Ali), is an Islamic radical scheming against the government and Egyptian society. Hurt after escaping the scene of an assassination, he is taken by the girl who hit him to her father’s house. Her father is

(Dr. Abdel Moneim), a famous doctor living with his family. They’re a local modern Muslim family unaware of his radical ties. After living with the family and learning about tolerance and love, he has doubts about his views. He is killed by his former comrades after challenging their leader.(30 April 1994).
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Adel Imam and Arab Farce
''Tablet Magazine''(15 April 1994)
Police guard theaters where 'Terrorist' plays
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Reception

The film, despite its controversial subject matter and the posting of police at theaters to guard against violence, was reportedly an immediate success in Egypt upon its release in 1994, earning back half of its US$447,000 budget in three days. The Egyptian government was supportive of its message.

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stated that the movie "reveals, in a dramatic manner, the internal contradictions within the terrorist movement ... It illustrates that whenever anyone is allowed to see society clearly they give up extremism."Hedges, Chris (18 April 1994)
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2001) (describing a "spectacular reception" for a "mediocre film") After the

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, Emam was sued by Islamist Asran Mansur, and sentenced (in absentia) in 2012 to three months in jail by an Egyptian court for allegedly "defaming Islam" for his role in this film and the play ''al-Zaeem'' (The Leader).(24 April 2012)
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Comic sentenced to jail for Islam insult
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'' However, a few months later, the actor won its appeal against the Islam-defamation conviction after the judge at the Misdemeanors Court in Haram had watched the movie and did not deem it anti-Islam.

Primary cast includes

- Ali Abd-El-Zaher *

- Dr. Abdel Moneim *

- Soraya *Sherine - Sawsan *Hanan Shawky - Faten *Mohamed El-Dafrawi - Fouad Mass'oud * Ahmed Rateb - El Akh Seif *

Mustafa Metwalli Mustafa Metwalli ( ar, مصطفى متولي) (born 1949 — died 5 August 2000) was a popular Egyptian movie and stage actor. He was primarily a comedian, but he played many different roles in Drama . Personal life He graduated in 1973 from ...

- Hany

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* Egyptian thriller films Films set in Egypt 1994 films 1990s Arabic-language films {{Egypt-film-stub

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