CAIRO — In 1929, Egypt’s Interior Ministry banned Wedad Orfi’s Masat al-Hayah (“The Tragedy of Life”). “The story as we saw it revels in self-indulgence, overshadowing the good part of it, leaving only a few meters of preaching, which neither leaves a strong enough impact on the viewer, nor gives the viewer a sublime idea […]
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