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Youssef Chahine, 1926-2008.
Mon, Jul 28 2008 5:25 PM
After suffering a brain hemorrhage several weeks ago, Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine passed away on Sunday at the age of 82. A.O. Scott at the New York Times: Whether his subject was the domestic struggles of poor and middle-class Cairenes, his own youth in Alexandria, the building of the Aswan Dam or the life of the medieval philosopher Averroes, Mr. Chahine's... Read More...