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The Yacoubian Building
Director: Marwan Hamed
Cast: Adel Imam: Zaki El Dessouki / Nour El-Sherif: Haj Azzam
Youssra: Christine / Essad Youniss: Dawlat El Dessouky
Ahmed Bedir: Malaak / Hend Sabri: Bothayna
Khaled El Sawy: Hatem Rachid / Khaled Saleh: Kamal El Fouly
Ahmed Rateb: Fanous / Somaya El Khashab: Soad
Bassem Samra: Abd Raboh / Mohamed Imam: Taha El Shazly
The Yacoubian Building is a roman à clef and scathing portrayal of modern Egyptian society since the 1952 Revolution. The locale of the novel is downtown Cairo, with the titular apartment building serving as both a metaphor for contemporary Egypt and a unifying location in which most of the primary characters either live or work and in which much of the novel's action takes place.
