MOVIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST

★★★★☆ Release date: July 1, 1958 Director: Youssef Chahine  Producer: Gabriel Talhami Main Cast: Youssef Chahine, Hind Rostom, Farid Shawqi, Said Khalil 'Cairo Station' follows a man named Qinawi, who is lame and pitiful. Madbouli, a newspaper stand owner, sees this and offers Qinawi a job at his newspaper stand. Eventually, Qinawi makes his reputation in Cairo station, and becomes well known throughout the station. Everything was going well and normal for Qinawi until he met a women named Hanouma who illegally sold drinks in the station. He quickly fell in love with Hanouma and did what he could to make her recuperate the feelings. Hanouma humored him for a bit, through his proposals and gestures to make her fall in love, but Hanouma was already engaged to a man named Abu Siri, and they were to get married very soon; so because of this, she had to reject him when she realized he was serious with his feelings toward her. Completely shattered from his heartbreak Qinawi planned o...

★★★★☆ Release date: 2007 Director: Amin Matalqa Producers: Amin Matalqa Main cast: Nadim Sawalha, Rana Sultan, Huessein Al- Sous Captain Abu Raed follows the story of an older gentleman name Abu Raed who works as a janitor at an airpot. The movie starts off with Abu Raed grieving his dead wife, and simply wanting more out of life. While being in the airport working, he walks around wearing a pilots hat; which a group of children see and are convinced that he is a pilot after Abu Raed goes along with the assumption. Abu Raed tells the children stories about all of his adventures as a pilot, but one child does not believe that Abu Raed is telling the truth. The young boy tries to show the group that Abu Raed is lying to them, and once they all go to the airport, and inevitably see that Abu Raed is simply just a janitor, his act was up. Abu Raed doesn't mind that he was outed, and instead shows compassion for the child who didn't originally believe him. Eventually we learn that on...

★★★★☆ Release Date: January 13, 2021 Director: Ahmed El Gendy Producers: Tamer Morsi Main Cast: Sayed  Ragen, Sherif Desouky, Bayoumi Fouad, Mohamed Sallam, Amina Khalil, Sawsan Badr A Stand of a Worthy Man follows an elderly man named Adel and his three friends Shohdy, Azaizy, Hussein trying to lift up the spirits of Adel after his wife, Abeer passed away. The movie starts off with Adel desperately trying everything in his power to see Abeer in this hospital, but the workers made it very difficult for him to do so. When Abeer passed away Adel fell into a deep depression and didn't even attend her funeral. His three friends hated seeing Adel in this state and wanted to do what they could to make him feel at least a little better. With all that was going on with Adel, the three friends were having their own issues: Shohdy was afraid he was going to die alone with no wife, Hussein feels disconnected from his family, like all he does is provide the money, and Azaizy is having marital ...

★★★★☆ Release Date: June 11th, 1992     Director: Sherif Arafa Main Cast: Adel Imam, Kamal Sheenawi, Yousra, Ahmed Rateb Terrorism and Kababs is a movie following a father and husband named Ahmad who accidentally puts himself into a situation where he has no alternative but to go along with it. Ahmad's wife is a stay at home mom who complains about many things, while Ahmad works for little to nothing, and barley can keep his family afloat. One day he needs to get paperwork done for his children and spends a tremendous amount of time looking for the right man who can help Ahmad. Eventually Ahmad get's fed up and starts a fight which leads to him in possession of a gun, and hostages. Throughout the movie we meet four other characters who join Ahmad and become the 'terrorists' who ultimately have to start meeting the demands of the hostages, such as fetching them 'kabobs.' For the rest of the...

★★★★☆ Release Date: October 31, 2013 Director: Amin Dora  Producers: Gabriel Chamoun Main Cast: Georges Khabbaz, Emmanuel Khairallah, Lara Matar, Camille Salameh Ghadi is a movie following a father desperately trying to get his son to be accepted by their small city in Lebanon, El Mshakkal. When the father, Leba and his wife Lara have their first boy, Ghadi, it was hard for them to come to terms with the fact he was disabled. Before Ghadi, the couple had to able bodied girls, but eventually the family grew to love Ghadi just as much as the girls, and see that having a child isn't a curse, but a blessing if you accept it to be. The city though, is not as accepting as Ghadi's family learned to become. They were very hateful toward both Ghadi and his family and spread false rumors that Ghadi was a curse over the entire city, and banned together to get him taken away from the city for good. To prevent this from happening Leba went through tremendous lengths to conv...

★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Release Date: January 19, 2014 Director: Ana Lily Amirpour producers: Ana Lily Amirpour, Sheri  Dave, Sinna Sayyah, Elijah Wood Main Cast: Ana Lily Amipour, Sheila Vand, Arash Morandi, Marshall Manesh A girl walks home Alone at Night is a horror movie shining a light on gender roles in an Iranian city called 'Bad City'. The movie portrays the bad men to be motivated through sex, drugs, and power- particularly over women. In this city there is a girl we are introduced to; this girl rides a skateboard around the city and seems like a normal citizen. But as the movie goes on, we come to find that the girl is actually a vampire and preys on the bad men in the city that take advantage of the women. Things get complicated for the girl when she starts to fall in love with a guy, who is actually a good man, but is hard for her to deal with that, due to all the bad men she's surrounded with in the town.  I went into this movie very excited because I am a huge horror movie ...