The Golden Years of Egyptian Film: Cairo Cinema 1936-1967

Edited by Sherif Boraïe
with essays by Mustafa Darwish, Rafik el-Sabban and Yasser Alwan
Photography by Mohamed Bakr
Hardcover| 240 pages | 24×32 cm | English/Arabic
2008 | ISBN 9789775864277

Egyptian cinema industry at its height, producing hundreds of black­-and-white comedies, dramas, and romances, enduring classics, much loved and watched over and over throughout the Arab world. Love was always a central theme – ideal love, impossible love, love won, love lost.

Introduced and captioned in English and Arabic, this book of the greatest and the best of Egyptian cinema will appeal to classic film lovers everywhere.