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Posts Tagged with ‘Movies:Africa:North’

  • Khorma – The Foolish Crier, Tunisia

    09 Feb 2016

    Stories of fools are likely as old as the telling of stories themselves, second only to those of powerful heroes…

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  • Women say: Hands Off! — Three Films of the Changing Conversation in Islam

    26 Jan 2016

    The long fight for autonomy, independence and freedom against enemies canny and brutal, is one of the most popular subjects…

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  • Enough! — Algerian Film Maker looks at War

    13 Jan 2016

    Djamila Sahraoui (b 1950) Algerian born director, now living in France was 41 when the thirteen year civil war erupted in…

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  • Halfaouine: Boy of The Terraces –Coming of Age in Tunis, 1990

    12 Jan 2016

    Every once in a while the unexpected out does itself. In Halfouine, Ferid Boughedir’s small 1990 movie from Tunis not…

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  • The Wedding Song — In Tunis As the Nazis Come

    12 May 2012

    The Wedding Song [2008] is a deeply felt film of young women’s friendship under the extreme stress of wartime as…

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  • Inch’ Allah Dimanche: Algerian Immigrants to France

    16 Jun 2011

    Immigration is big in the news these days – mostly the opposition to it–  around the world.  It is absolutely…

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  • The Mother of the Bride – Screwball Comedy from Egypt, 1967

    23 Mar 2011

    Comedies of family life have been a regular feature of movies and television in the US from the 1950s right…

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  • Afrita Hanem: The Genie Lady — Egypt, 1951

    02 Mar 2011

    Egypt as Egyptian movie goers saw it in 1951 (1949?) in Afrita Hanem: The Genie Lady [also known as Little…

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  • There’s A Man in Our House — Egypt

    28 Feb 2011

    We’re familiar enough with movies about daring resistance fighters in wars or to oppressive regimes –if they are French, Spanish,…

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  • Alexandria: Again and Forever –Youssef Chahine and Changing Egypt

    19 Feb 2011

    Alexandria is one of the fabled cities of history, the ancient jewel of Egypt, a cross roads for Mediterranean trade since boats…

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  • Struggle on the Nile: Three Tough Guys and a Dame in Egypt

    16 Feb 2011

    In Struggle on the Nile, a 1959 movie from the golden age of Egyptian cinema, you will encounter a young…

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  • A Citizen, A Detective & A Thief: Comic Relief in Egyptian Cinema

    15 Feb 2011

    Up to this film I was prepared to believe Egyptian movies only dealt with serious matters in serious ways.  Adrift…

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