Hajj Mitwalli is keen to acquire money and land. His daughter Naimah falls in love with Hasan Read More »
Tag Archives: Arabic
Sleepless AKA La anam (1957) Salah Abouseif, Faten Hamamah, Maryam Fakhruddin, Omar Sharif
‘I Never Sleep’ (also called ‘Sleepless’) is the story of Nadia Lotfi (Faten Hamama), a teenage girl Read More »
The Night of Counting the Years AKA Al-mummia (1969) Chadi Abdel Salam, Ahmed Marei, Ahmad Hegazi, Nadia Lutfi
Universally recognized as one of the greatest Egyptian films ever made Read More »
Oh the Days! AKA Alyam, alyam (1978) Ahmed El Maanouni, Ben Brahim
Abdelwahad dreams of a life of wealth and wants breaks with tradition. Read More »
The Syrian Bride (2004) Eran Riklis, Hiam Abbass, Makram Khoury, Clara Khoury
In Majdal Shams, the largest Druze village in Golan Heights on the Israeli-Syrian border Read More »
The Challenge (2016) Yuri Ancarani
Focused on the world of wealthy Qatari sheikhs with a passion for amateur falconry Read More »
The Dove’s Lost Necklace AKA Le collier perdu de la colombe (1991) Nacer Khemir, Navin Chowdhry, Walid Arakji, Ninar Esber
The story revolves around Hassan, who is studying Arabic calligraphy from a grand master. Read More »
The Dupes AKA Al-makhdu’un (1972) Tewfik Saleh, Mohamed Kheir-Halouani, Abderrahman Alrahy, Bassan Lofti Abou-Ghazala
Set in Iraq (but shot in Syria), this is the story of three men who try to leave their impoverished and hopeless lives to get get work in Kuwait. Read More »
A Thousand and One Hands AKA Les mille et une mains (1973) Souheil Ben-Barka, Abdou Chaibane, Mimsy Farmer, Si Ahmed
In Morocco, an old dyer and his young son Miloud work transporting wool packs. Read More »
The Bad Guys AKA El Achrar (1970) Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Rushdy Abaza, Adel Adham, Amira
An adventure of money, love and betrayal in the deserts of Egypt at the site of El Alamein battle of WWII. Read More »