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This undated handout photo shows Egyptian actress Faten Hamama (R) with her then-husband, Egyptian actor Omar Sharif, in Cairo, Egypt. (AFP Photo/HO)

Egypt issues stamps to commemorate Arab screen legend

by Dalia Assam | Mar 5, 2015 | Lifestyle & Culture

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Egypt’s postal service has issued stamps commemorating Egyptian actress Faten Hamama, one of the Arab world’s most celebrated screen actors, who died in January at the age of 84. Known as the “Lady of the Arab Screen,” Hamama made her...

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People walk past the Metro cinema in Downtown Cairo, Egypt, on October 16, 2012. (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)

Eid Al-Adha marks Egyptian cinema comeback

by Jamal Al-Qassas | Oct 15, 2014 | Lifestyle & Culture

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—Filmgoers are flocking again to Egypt’s cinemas after a successful Eid Al-Adha season, in a sign of a comeback for the industry which has been experiencing a lull since Egypt’s 2011 revolution with falling box office receipts and complaints from...

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Egyptian actor Asser Yassin in a scene from Ahmad Abdallah’s “Rags and Tatters”

Asser Yassin on ‘Rags and Tatters’

by Suha Al-Sharqawi | Dec 1, 2013 | Lifestyle & Culture

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—The momentous events surrounding the January 25th Revolution in Egypt—which toppled President Hosni Mubarak in early 2011 and subsequently ushered in a quasi-democratic system of governance—are still fresh in the minds of ordinary Egyptians, as...