A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Ahmad Fouaad Negm is one of the most important colloquial poets in Egypt, one of the most influential Egyptian Leftists and a prominent figure in art and poetry dedicated to toiling masses against corrupt ruling classes. Because of that, he was imprisoned for 18 years.
Lyricist:
1974 The Sparrow
1985 Ka3balon
1988 Bitter Day, Sweet Day
1990 The Bogeyman
1994 The Jeans
1998 The Coma
2006 The King Is the King
2011 El Fagommi
2019 King Lear
Novel:
1974 The Sparrow
1985 Ka3balon
1988 Bitter Day, Sweet Day
1990 The Bogeyman
1994 The Jeans
1998 The Coma
2006 The King Is the King
2011 El Fagommi
2019 King Lear
Lyricist:
1989 Dad, You, & I in Dismay
2005 Rayya and Sakina
2006 The Accused Is My Father
2007 The Yacoubian Building
2009 Everyday Wars
2011 Adam
2012 Napoleon And Al Mahrousa
Most data and links to images for the Movies section come from TheMovieDB (TMDB).
Additional data for Film Titles come from The Open Movie Database (OMDb).
At least one plug-in comes from IMDb.
Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.