Author Spotlight

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.

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Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 5

Chronicle of the Years of Fire: Chronicle of a Nation in Revolt

A singular achievement in Arab film history, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina’s sweeping political epic is a memorial to the lives lost in the struggle for Algerian independence.

By Joseph Fahim

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