Youssef Chahine

A discussion of the frequently controversial film maker Youssef Chahine. The book aims to illuminate Chahine''s work in the context of modern Egyptian culture and its tumultuous post-war history and how such films as ''Cairo Station'' (1958), ''The Earth'' (1959) and ''The Sparrow'' (1973) dramatized the dilemmas of ordinary Egyptians. He also argues that Chahine''s intensely autobiographical tril...