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Spotlight on Youssef Chahine
Cairo Station
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15m
The following interview with scholar Richard Peña was recorded in 2024.
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Joseph Fahim on CAIRO STATION
In this 2025 interview, film scholar and programmer Joseph Fahim discusses CAIRO STATION in the context of Egyptian politics, as well as director Youssef Chahine’s early career and his collaboration with the cast and crew.
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Chahine...Why?
This 2009 documentary by Mona Ghandour details the production of CAIRO STATION and includes interviews with director Youssef Chahine, screenwriter Abdel Hay Adib, and actors Hind Rostom and Farid Shawki.
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CAIRO AS SEEN BY CHAHINE Intro
This 2025 interview with film scholar Joseph Fahim contextualizes Youssef Chahine’s controversial 1991 portrait of Cairo.
