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Article: Coaxing Egypt's venerable cinema toward a brave new world.
- Article from:
- The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Article date:
- November 28, 2008
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Byline: Jim Quilty
Summary: "I was a musician before becoming an actor." Ezzat Abou Ouf, president of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), pauses to sip some Turkish coffee. "Back in the '70s, I was one of the revolutionaries changing the face of Egyptian music - our oriental, typical one-line-going type of music - to a Western style.
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CAIRO: "I was a musician before becoming an actor." Ezzat Abou Ouf, president of the Cairo International Film Festival (CIFF), pauses to sip some Turkish coffee. "Back in the '70s, I was one of the revolutionaries changing the face of Egyptian music - our oriental, typical one-line-going type of ...