"2000 - 2099" . . . . "Egypt History, 20th Century." . . "Cairo (Egypt)" . . "Egypt Social life and customs." . . "FunGun (Firm)" . . . "ʻImGarat al-YaʻqGubGiyGanb" . . . "Arabic language films" . "Yaʻacoubian Building" . "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." . . . "Limmeuble Yacobianne" . . . . . . "Belletristische Darstellung" . "ʻImārat Yaʻqūbiyān" . "Omaret yakobean" . . "Yacoubian building" . "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." . . . "DVD-Video" . . . . "Yacoubian Gebäude" . . . . "ʻImārat Yaʻqūbiyān The Yacoubian building" . . . . "‏عمارة يعقوبيان‏" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Social problem films" . "Motion pictures" . "Foreign language films" . "Feature films" . . . . . "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." . "<>" . . "<>"@ar . . . . . . "عامارة يعقوبيان" . "Fiction films" . . "Omaret Yakobean" . "ʻImārat Yaʻqūbiyān Yacoubian building" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "عمارة يعقوبيان" . . . "Yacoubian Building" . . "Film adaptations" . . "ʻImārat Yaʻqūbiyān = Yacoubian building" . . "Drama" . "Melodrama" . . "ʻImārat al-Yaʻqūbīyānb" . . . . "ʻImārat Yaʻqūbiyān (Motion picture)" . "Good News Group (Firm)" . . "Social conditions." . . "Arabic language films." . . "Gesellschaftsleben." . . "Geschichte 2001." . . "Good News Group." . . "Kairo." . . "Korruption." . . "Motion pictures, Egyptian." . . "Cairo (Egypt)" . .