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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
5/12/2026 5:58:08 PM
Soha Hesham remembers Youssef Chahine and Salah Abu-Seif.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
5/6/2026 5:21:00 PM
Ahram Online highlights a selection of do-not-miss events this week, 6-12 May in Cairo
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
1/25/2026 5:04:36 PM
Cinema enthusiasts and filmmakers in Egypt and around the world are marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of the late director Youssef Chahine (25 January 1926 – 27 July 2008), whose work left a profound impact on generations of filmmakers.
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
10/21/2025 5:37:55 PM
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
7/27/2025 12:54:47 PM
17 years have passed since the departure of the biggest and most important figure not only in Egyptian cinema but the history of Arab cinema. Youssef Chahine died on 27 July 2008 at the age of 82 after filled with vibrant clamor and spectacular successes
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
5/18/2025 3:22:30 PM
The 15th edition of the Luxor African Film Festival (LAFF) will take place under the theme Youssef Chahine: An Egyptian Tale, marking the centenary of the renowned Egyptian filmmaker
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
5/11/2024 1:32:21 PM
Hanouma, a much-beloved character portrayed by Hind Rostom in Youssef Chahine's Cairo Station (1958), is featured on the poster of the upcoming 40th Alexandria Mediterranean Countries Film Festival (1-5 October 2024)
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Opinion
2/28/2023 11:36:00 AM
Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine made some of the most penetrating films ever made about Egypt’s psyche.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
12/1/2022 12:29:11 PM
Coinciding with the second edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (1-10 December), Hayy Cinema, the first independent film theatre in Saudi Arabia, will open in Jeddah with a retrospective on Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
8/9/2022 6:01:00 PM
Egyptian actress Ragaa Hussein passed away at a hospital in Cairo earlier on Tuesday at the age of 85 after a long struggle with illness.
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Books
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Reviews
11/1/2021 3:25:06 PM
Ahead of Cairo International Film Festival, on the third week of November, a debate opens over the history and role of cinema in Egypt.
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
10/27/2021 6:40:50 PM
Four Egyptian films by Khairy Beshara, Henry Barakat, Raafat El-Mihi and Youssef Chahine will be screened as part of a selection of eight international masterpieces presented at the Red Sea International Film Festival (6-15 December 2021).
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
7/27/2021 4:41:07 PM
27 July marks 13th death anniversary of one of the most important figures in Arab cinema, Youssef Chahine
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
12/4/2020 6:52:18 PM
Cairo Station by Youssef Chahine was the first African and the first Arab film to contend for the award in 1958
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
9/22/2020 6:40:40 PM
Bahzan had worked on films by Shadi Abdel-Salam and Youssef Chahine, among others
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
6/30/2020 7:56:25 PM
Finally, Soha Hesham writes, Youssef Chahine is on Netflix
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Heritage
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Walks
6/26/2020 2:56:57 PM
Summer is here and so is COVID-19, but that does not mean we cannot marvel at the beauty of Cairo
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
6/18/2020 12:36:59 PM
Four titles - Struggle in the Valley, Alexandria ... Why?, Alexandria Again and Again, and The Emigrant - were added to Chahine's repertoire on Netflix Wednesday
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Al-Ahram Weekly
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Culture
3/31/2020 3:46:01 PM
Over the many years, the filmmakers tackled an issue of global pandemics in their works. Egypt's share comes with Youssef Chahine's The Sixth Day, a movie touching on the cholera epidemic of 1947
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Arts & Culture
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Screens
2/28/2020 2:09:08 PM
The film will be screened at the inaugural Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah next month
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