Emad Abou-Ghazi, the minister of culture, says the ministry will officially call ‎on Prime Minister Essam Sharaf to grant veteran filmmaker Mohamed Khan Egyptian nationality. ‎

A campaign was recently launched by intellectuals and big-screen artists in an attempt to ‎persuade the authorities to naturalize Khan.“I will submit a request to Premier Essam Sharaf ‎upon his arrival from from South Africa,” Abou-Ghazi said. ‎

‎“I asked some of the campaign’s organizers to send the ministry a biography of Khan that includes all his movies and the ‎[numerous]‎ awards he won in local and international festivals.”‎

A few years ago, the ministry of culture issued a book about the prestigious director. ‎

‎ Khan, the son of an Egyptian mother and Pakistani father, was born in Egypt in 1942. ‎He is considered to be one of the top filmmakers in the county.‎

The late seventies and eighties were the vital years of his career. He excelled in ‎depicting the daily life of poor Egyptians.‎

The highly-acclaimed Khan, who spent most of his life in Egypt, directed 22 films, 12 of which were based on ‎his own screenplays. Four of his movies were picked among the greatest 100 films in the ‎history of Egyptian cinema.‎

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