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Ehky ya Scheherazade = Scheherazade, tell me a story / Misr Cinema, Kamel Abou Ali presents ; a film written by Wahid Hamed ; directed by Yousry Nasrallah ; produced by Kamel Abou Ali ; a film by Yousry Nasrallah.
إحكي يا شهرزاد = Scheherazade, tell me a story Misr Cinema, Kamel Abou Ali presents ; a film written by Wahid Hamed ; directed by Yousry Nasrallah ; produced by Kamel Abou Ali ; a film by Yousry Nasrallah.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Political activity--Egypt.
- Women.
- Substance abuse--Egypt.
- Substance abuse.
- Murder--Egypt.
- Murder.
- Women--Political activity.
- Egypt.
- Genre:
- Fiction films.
- Feature films.
- Internet videos
- Internet videos.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 132 minutes)) : sound, color
- Other Title:
- Scheherazade, tell me a story
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : ArtMattan Productions, [2009]
- Language Note:
- In Arabic with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- Illumira digital
- Illumira video file
- video file
- Summary:
- Hebba, a television show host in contemporary Cairo, presents a successful political talk show on a privately owned network. Karim, her husband, is deputy editor in chief of a government-owned newspaper. His ambition is to become editor in chief. He is led to believe by the party leaders, that his wife's constant meddling with opposition politics could put his promotion in danger. Using his boyish charm and sexual prowess, he convinces Hebba to stay away from politics, and devote her program to social issues for which the government cannot be held responsible. She starts a series of talk shows around issues involving women. She listens to the stories of resilient, strong women, who, like Scheherazade in A Thousand and One Nights, tell their stories to stay alive. Hebba knows, of course, that women's issues are political. But she could not imagine up to which extent. Gradually, she finds herself walking in a minefield of abuse, sexual, religious, social and political repression that lead to the break-up of her marriage. From storyteller, Hebba herself becomes a story.
- Participant:
- Mona Zakki, Mahmoud Hemeida, Sawsan Badr, Hassan El Raddad.
- Credits:
- Music, Tamer Karawan ; editor, Mona Rabi ; cinematography, Samir Bahsan.
- Notes:
- Parallel title from English subtitles.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2009.
- OCLC:
- 1143512604
- Publisher Number:
- 110359 Infobase
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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