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Alias:
هاشم النحاس
Birthplace:
Egypt
Born:
March 27, 1937
El Nahas is a filmmaker and cinema scholar who has been involved in the founding of a number of cinema associations and festivals since the 1960s including Gameyyat Al Film, one of the oldest and most influential of such associations in Egypt, Gamaat Al Cinema Al Gadeda, the guild for Arab documentary filmmakers, The Film Critics Association and The Ismailia International Film Festival for Documentaries and Shorts. His 1972 film Al Nil Arzaq (The Nile is Fortune) continues to be a landmark of documentary cinema today and attests to a flourishing documentary movement in the late 1960s and early 70s in Egypt.
Director:
1972 Daily Bread on the Nile
1981 The People and The Lake
1982 TOSHKA
1982 The Well
1983 Khiamiah
1983 Shawa Bahmad
1989 The Conscience of His Time
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