Egypt’s Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has reported that 22 royal mummies will be transferred in a wonderful parade from their present location in the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir Square to their new permanent place in Fustat’s National Museum of Egyptian Civilization, which is located near the Babylon Fortress and overlooks Ain Al Sira in the heart of the historic city of Fustat. This event will take place in Cairo on the 3rd of April. The announcement was made in an official statement, which noted that the parade will start at 6 PM on Saturday and will contain 22 mummies that belong to between the seventeenth and twentieth dynasties.Valley of the Kings, the area of southern Egypt hosting their original tombs.
Beshir
After studying literature at Cairo University, Dunia, 23 years old, wants to become a professional dancer. She attends audition for an oriental dance contest where she recites Arabian poetry without any body movement. She explain to the perplexed jury that a woman can't move her body or evoke act of love when society ask women to hide their femininity. She is selected and meet Beshir, an intellectual and activist who will supervise her thesis on ecstasy in Sufi love poetry. Their attraction is mutual. This could be liberation for Dunia but the constraints on women in Egyptian society goes deeper than she suspects.
Marwan
La historia está ambientada en al-Andalus en el siglo XII, donde el famoso filósofo Averroes es nombrado juez por el gran califa. Rivales políticos del califa, centrados en el líder de una secta islámica fanática, obligan al califa a enviar a Averroes al exilio, pero sus ideas siguen viviendo gracias a sus alumnos.
The story of the discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb, through the story of Gad, a young Nubian who comes to live in Luxor and accompanies Howard Carter during his search for the tomb.
Aly
Due to his poverty, the father of the musician is forced to abandon two of his three sons, so he sells the daughter to a wealthy family, and the second son to a doctor, and keeps a son with him. The father dies, the sons grow up, and their paths intersect.
El Cairo 1947: la epidemia de cólera en pleno apogeo. La hermosa Lavandiere Saddika vive con su esposo paralizado y su pequeño hijo Hassan en un sótano. Sueña con el príncipe azul y frecuenta asiduamente los cines.
Mohamed
In 1933 in the village of Karnak in Luxor, sad lives with her husband Bakhit Bishari paraplegic and TB disease.
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.
