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    Jamāl ʻAbd al-Nāṣir
    Nasser | Gamal Abd El Naser Catalog Record Only     A dramatized biography of Gamal Abd El-Nasser, popular Egyptian nationalist and one of the most important modern Arab leaders, from about 1935, during the British occupation of Egypt through his death in 1970. As a young man,Nasser had problems with the police because of his political activities in opposition to the occupation. However, in 1957, he was accepted into the Egyptian Military Academy. Depicted...
    • Contributor: LC Collection (Library of Congress) - Kawadri, Anwar
    • Date: 1998
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    Bakhīt wa-ʻAdīlah
    بخيت وعديلة | Bakhīt & ʻAdīlah Catalog Record Only     Bakhīt, a factory worker, is madly in love with ʻAdīlah who works as a teacher, but their poverty stands in the way of their marriage. Bakhīt and ʻAdīlah realize that the only way to overcome their financial problems is by winning seats in the parliament to benefit from its financial and power privileges. Bakhīt runs for the parliament with "al-Gardal" as his sign while...
    • Contributor: Ḥusnī, Ḥasan - Dāwūd, Yūsuf - Rātib, Aḥmad - Lūrd Vīdiyū Fīlm (Firm) - Shīrīn - Abū ʻawf, ʻizzat - ʻabd Al-Rāziq, Ṣalāḥ - Mutawallī, Muṣṭafá - Ramlī, Līnīn - Hunaydī, Muḥammad ... Ḥusnī, Ḥasan - Dāwūd, Yūsuf - Rātib, Aḥmad - Lūrd Vīdiyū Fīlm (Firm) - Shīrīn - Abū ʻawf, ʻizzat - ʻabd Al-Rāziq, Ṣalāḥ - Mutawallī, Muṣṭafá - Ramlī, Līnīn - Hunaydī, Muḥammad - Imām, Mūdī - Faraj, Samīr - Bahjat, Nihād - ʻazab, Ḥilmī - Jalāl, Nādir - Imām, ʻādil - Sājā Fīlm
    • Date: 200?
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    Al-Karnak Catalog Record Only This film is about political persecution under Nasser after the Egyptian defeat by the Israelis in 1967. The movie revolves around a group of university students during the late 1960's and early 1970's whose lives are turned upside down because of their discussions regarding the political instability the country was experiencing at the time. While some of the students managed to recover, others have...
    • Contributor: Badrakhan, Ali - Ḥusnī, Suʻād - Rotana Distribution (Firm) - Maḥfūẓ, Najīb - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress)
    • Date: 200?
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    Imbarāṭūrīyat m M empire
    امبراطورية م M empire / | M empire | L'empire M Catalog Record Only     One of the best loved Egyptian films: on the surface it is an enjoyable family drama below it is a political call for liberalism and democracy during Sadat's era. Written by the great Hussein Kamal and featuring a superb cast led by "the Lady of the Arab Screen" Faten Hamama.
    • Contributor: Funūn (Firm) - Abyaḍ, Dawlat - Ḥamāmah, Fātin - Najīb, Murād Ramsīs - ʻabd Al-Qaddūs, Iḥsān - Kamāl, Ḥusayn - Maẓhar, Aḥmad
    • Date: 200?
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    Iḥnā bitūʻ al-utūbīs
    We are the bus people | Nous sommes les gens du bus Catalog Record Only     The story takes place before the Arab-Israel War in 1967. Jābir and his neighbour Marzūq were on the bus, they got in a fight with the conductor and were arrested. Unfortunately they were wrongly accused of political motives and were sent to political prison instead of regular prison. In the prison, the leader of the prison tried to force them to confess that they...
    • Contributor: Ḥamāmṣī, Jalāl Al-Dīn - Kamāl, Ḥusayn - Rotana Distribution (Firm) - LC Purchase Collection (Library of Congress) - Ṣabrī, Fārūq - Imām, ʻādil
    • Date: 200?
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    Out in the dark Catalog Record Only As much a political and societal commentary as it is an original romantic story, Michael Mayer's taut first feature follows a border-crossing relationship between an Israeli lawyer and an increasingly desperate Palestinian student who dreams of a better life abroad.
    • Contributor: M7200 Productions - Breaking Glass Pictures (Firm) - Aloni, Michael - Roter, Lihu - Jacob, Nicholas - Mayer, Michael - Khouri, Jameel - Periscope (Firm) - Shafrir, Yael - Arutz 10 (Television Station : Israel) - Israel Film Fund
    • Date: 2013