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Publicity still for the Egyptian film Yahya el hub (1938). Egypt's history of film started a few months following the Lumière Brothers' first film screening in Europe. In 1896, their film was taken to Egypt and was screened exclusively to a group of Egyptians in the Schneider Baths, Alexandria. [4]
Throughout its history it has been active as an Palestinian cultural institution, again as a cinema after the establishment of Israel, and as a theatre after 1963. In 2010 it was purchased and renovated by the Church of Scientology, and in 2012 was opened as the Ideal Center of Scientology for the Middle East. [2]
In the 1940s and 1950s, the 'Golden Age' of Middle Eastern cinema emerged, primarily from Egypt, which is dubbed the "Hollywood of the East." [2] Studios like Studio Misr and Al-Ahram played an instrumental role in the proliferation of Middle Eastern cinema, producing influential films like "The White Rose" (1933) and "The Song of Hope" (1937). [3]
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Gilad Padva. Discursive Identities in the (R) Evolution of the New Israeli Queer Cinema. In Talmon, Miri and Peleg, Yaron (Eds.), Israeli Cinema: Identities in Motion (pp. 313–325). Austin, TX: Texas University Press, 2011. Ella Shohat, Israeli cinema: East West and the politics of representation, Austin: Univ. of Texas Pr., 1989.
The Greidinger family, the majority owners of Cinema City International N.V., started their cinema business in Haifa, Israel, Moshe Greidinger (grandfather of the company's current CEO also named Moshe Greidinger) started building his first cinema in 1929, which was opened in 1931 as Ein Dor. [2] In 1935, he opened his second cinema in Haifa, Armon Cinema (palace in Hebrew), a large art-deco ...
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Films set in Israel (14 C, 91 P) L. Films set in Lebanon (3 C, 40 P) O. ... World War I films set in the Middle East (1 C, 15 P) Pages in category "Films set in the ...