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y Adel Darwish
Youssef Chahine earned the title “the pioneer of social realism” in Egyptian cinema. His country once had the fourth largest film industry in the world; and it has been an important tool in securing Egypt’s cultural dominance in the Arabic-speaking world since the 1920s.

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By Adel Darwish

Many in Egypt, and the region are interested in the televised series of King Farouk I the late king of Egypt who was forced to abdicate – his infant son prince Ahmed Fuad was put on the throne and the Prime Minister Maher Pasha became the Regent- and leave Egypt on 26th July 1952 by army officers who had seized power three days earlier in an illegitimate military coup lead by Colonel Nasser and General Naguib. A year later the officers – in what became a pattern of their illegal and increasingly oppressive rule- broke their promise to the nation and to parliament by abolishing the monarchy altogether denying- till this day- King Ahmad Fuad II his legitimate right to Egypt’s throne.

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