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Joseph Fahim

Joseph Fahim is a film critic, curator, and lecturer. His writing has appeared in Sight and Sound, MUBI’s Notebook, BBC Culture, and Middle East Eye, and has been translated into eight languages. He has curated film programs in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East, including an extensive one devoted to Youssef Chahine at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2019.

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Cairo Station: Of Time and the City

This remarkably sensitive yet jarringly violent romance epitomizes director Youssef Chahine’s late-fifties hybrid style, which combined elements of Hollywood entertainment with an unmistakably Egyptian spirit.

By Joseph Fahim