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ʻImGarat al-YaʻqGubGiyGanb

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  • "Yaʻacoubian Building"
  • "Limmeuble Yacobianne"
  • "Omaret yakobean"
  • "Yacoubian building"
  • "Yacoubian Gebäude"
  • "Omaret Yakobean"
  • "Yacoubian Building"

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  • "We meet the residents of the Yacoubian building and through them learn something about the city of Cairo, albeit the more disturbing side of corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, sexuality, and drugs."
  • ""An eye-catching construction, the Yacoubian Building in Cairo was long regarded as the last word in comfort and elegance. Nowadays the veneer has cracked and the shine has dulled to reveal the truth underneath the facade. Through interwoven stories of a number of the residents, the film paints a portrait of corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo and creates a vibrant but socially critical picture of contemporary Egypt"--Container."
  • "The film weaves sordid tales of political corruption, drug abuse, poverty, homosexuality, aging and Islamic fundamentalism through the lives of the various residents of the Cairo apartment house of the title."
  • "The film opens with a montage tracing the building's history, as wealthy expatriate and Egyptian residents give way, after the 1952 coup that overthrew King Farouk and eventually resulted in the installation of Gamal Abdel Nasser as President of Egypt, to new families, and as the rooftop storage rooms are converted into living space for lower-class families. The rooftop community, effectively a slum neighborhood, is symbolic of the urbanization of Egypt and of the burgeoning population growth in its large cities in recent decades, especially among the poor and working classes. In the faded apartments of the main floors and on the building's teeming roof."

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  • "Arabic language films"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "DVD-Video"
  • "Social problem films"
  • "Motion pictures"
  • "Feature films"
  • "Foreign language films"
  • "Fiction films"
  • "Film adaptations"
  • "Drama"
  • "Melodrama"

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  • "ʻImGarat al-YaʻqGubGiyGanb"
  • "ʻImārat Yaʻqūbiyān"
  • "ʻImārat Yaʻqūbiyān The Yacoubian building"
  • "‏عمارة يعقوبيان‏"
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  • "عامارة يعقوبيان"
  • "ʻImārat Yaʻqūbiyān Yacoubian building"
  • "عمارة يعقوبيان"
  • "ʻImārat Yaʻqūbiyān = Yacoubian building"
  • "ʻImārat al-Yaʻqūbīyānb"
  • "ʻImārat Yaʻqūbiyān (Motion picture)"

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