ARB 2102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Najdat Anzour, Omar Amiralay, Cinema Of Egypt
3 Apr 2019
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Cinema continued: arab cinema outside egypt, a development of cinema similar to egypt was unthinkable in other arab countries. Arab countries did not produce feature films before 1950. 10% of all arab movies, algeria 5%, syria 3%, tunisia 3%, morocco 3%, etc. Egypt alone still produces the remaining 75: 3 major factors for this situation, spoken dialects as barrier: local dialects hampered inter-arab exchange of feature movies; however, all arabs understood egyptian, syrian and lebanese dialects. Syria: egypt, palestine, algeria, morocco, tunisia, all remaining 15 arab countries had no notable movie industry: Iraq: the gulf states, the sudan, etc, their production was confined to short films for television, tv series, and. Syrian and lebanese cinema: before 1965, syria and lebanon, each produced two films per year; then lebanon progressed the most producing 15 films per year. Many syrian and lebanese talents migrated to egypt as cairo was the magnate (asmahan, farid al-atrash, sabah, and faiza.
