Yousef Idris

Yousef Idris

History

Youssef Idris was an Egyptian writer of short stories and novellas. He was born in 1927, and studied at the Faculty of Medicine, where he also started his political activism against King Farouk's regime. He wrote his first short story while at the faculty, and it was highly praised by his colleagues. He continued working in medicine until 1960, and was employed as an editor in Al-Gomhoreya newspaper in 1957. His short stories are extremely popular in the Middle East, and were also translated to many languages and adapted to numerous short films.

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Yousef Idris

Movies

House of flesh
Novel
It's somehow a radical egyptian movie
Li Li
Novel
Sheikh Abdul-Al, the imam of Al-Shobokshi Mosque in Al-Batiniyya. The drug trafficker, which is home to a group of traders and drug dealers, is surrounded by a beautiful girl, Lee, who is chasing him in his dreams and is in a conflict between his desire and his faith. And it ends on her door.
Officer Shebrawi
Writer
An order is issued for the officer, Shebrawi, to accompany his friend, the thief Zanati, to prison in Cairo, and Zubaida to admit her to a mental hospital. Things don’t go as planned.
An Egyptian Story
Writer
After we last see him in "Alexandria, Why?" Egyptian filmmaker Yehia Mourad is in his thirties, and successful in his work, he has grown distant from his wife and children and suffers a symbolic blockage of the heart while shooting the final scenes of his latest film. After being flown to England for evaluation, it's determined that Yehia must undergo emergency surgery. Fact and fiction blend seamlessly—with healthy doses of cleverly absurdist fantasy—as the film explores the various personalities and forces that have made Yehia (and Youssef Chahine) the man he has become.
The Name Caller
Story
Based on old Egyptian legend about El Naddaha (The caller), a nocturnal genie who takes form of a stunningly beautiful woman who seduces men who walk close the river Nile in order to hypnotize them.
The Sin
Writer
Aziza, a poor migrant worker, struggles after her husband stops working due to an illness. Her life changes when she gets pregnant after being raped by a man.
سجين الليل
Writer
My Son, My Son, What Have You Done
Writer
A son and his father go on their first and last trip together.