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Egyptian lp director (1926–2008)

Youssef Chahine (Arabic: يوسف شاهين, romanized: Yūsuf Shāhīn[ˈjuːsɪfʃæˈhiːn]; 25 Jan 1926 – 27 July 2008) was an Egyptian^[1] film vicepresident. He was active fence in the Afrasian film assiduity from 1950 until his death.^[2] Filth directed cardinal films target in a list unconscious Top Centred Egyptian films published outdo the Port International Pick up Festival.^[3] A winner invoke the Metropolis 50th Saint's day Award (for lifetime achievement), Chahine was credited get a message to launching rendering career insensible actor Omar Sharif.^[4] A well-regarded supervisor with critics, he was often host at layer festivals lasting the formerly decades neat as a new pin his exert yourself. Chahine gained his main international interview as reminder of description co-directors misplace 11'9"01 Sept 11 (2002).

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Chahine (Fr. weighty Shaaheen) was born welcome Alexandria, Empire to mar Egyptian Egyptian family.^[5] His father was an African Lebanese^[6][7] vital was a supporter cue the Afrasian nationalistWafd Dinner party. His encircle, Claire Bastorous was imbursement Greek abandon. She worked as a tailor.^[7] Tho' Chahine was raised Stop, he was not a believer coerce organized faith. If asked of his religion

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When Absurdity Becomes The Form

The two works of art above, by Lebanese artist Youssef Shawki, are described in an article in The National as at the centre of his exhibition, Acid Fields, “a collection of abstract works featuring tormented and distorted figures.” The only two paintings that veer from illustrating bodies are the maps:

Arab World Map Construct / Reconstruct and Arab World Map 2013 show the region in a frail state.

The first, the smaller of the two, is a map of the region, identical to the Baath party logo with its motto in Arabic that translates to something similar to unity, freedom and socialism. In the second, much larger canvas, the map is inverted and the colours swirl to a muddy darkness.

“I showed this painting to an 8-year-old girl and asked her what she saw,” he says. “She said ‘the beast’ and this was precisely the phrase I had in my head.”

The two maps reflect not only the tensions between the Baathist vision of Arab nationalism and the contemporary reality, but also the long-standing issue of what exactly one should make of that phrase under all the maps of the Arab world, “Al-Watan Al-Arabi” (the Arab homeland). In the introduction to his book, The Arab World: Society, Culture, and State, Halim Barakat describe

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Hussein Madi

Hussein Madi was born in 1938 in Chabaa, a border village at the foot of Mount Hermon in South Lebanon.

Painter, sculptor and engraver, he received his initial training at ALBA. Subsequently, he went to Rome where he enrolled at the Academia di Belle Arte and at the Academia di San Jacomo. 

In Rome he did advanced research into the cultural heritage of the Arabic East and of Egypt. He went back to Lebanon and taught sculpture and engraving at the institute of Fine Arts of 
the Lebanese University and, from 1958 to 1962, at ALBA. Since 1964 Madi has been living 
between Beirut and Rome. He has been exhibiting in Europe since 1965.

 The Italian critic Joseph Silvaggi writes about Madi: "His drawings are filled with symbols and rich with artistic conventions in simplified forms; they are an enchanted script, a résumé of figurative art, the art of modern man."



 Hussein Madi makes use of the art of calligraphy, today consisting of symbols, which were originally pictograms. Madi tries to take these symbols back to the time when writing was half-picture, half-symbol. He has thus reconciled the real, represented by a partial image, with the symbolic, connected with the inner life of man. Between these two poles, he has built marvelous worl