MOVIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST

★★★★★ Release date: April 19, 2019 Director: Ramy Youssef  Producers: Ramy Youssef  Main cast: Ramy Youssef, Steve Way, Mohammed Amer, Amr Waked, Hiam Abbas, Dave Merheji Ramy follows a young Egyptian Muslim Immigrant man navigating life in New Jersey. This show highlights Ramy's relationship with his religion and idenity while living in America. As a young boy freshly moved to America Ramy was in school when 9/11 happened, and from that day forward, like many Arabs, his life changed forever. Ramy had to fit in the only way he knew how which was to fully embrace the western culture, but at the expense forgetting his own. His parents and sister eventually also subcome to forgetting who they are, and trying desperately to find themselves. The show dives into how taboo things like masterbating, pre martial sex, and gambling is to the Arab and Muslim community, but that it's so heavily apart of Western culture that it's hard to stay away from. In season three Ramy visits Palest...

★★★★☆ 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...