Hend Sabry: The Lawyer Who Became an Actress
Hend Sabry studied law and won Best Actress at Cannes as a teenager before her biggest gamble: a controversial Cairo film that could have ended her career.
Egyptian Cinema
Khaled Abol Naga’s Rebellion Against Typecasting
Khaled Abol Naga gave up engineering, then his romantic-lead image, then his own name — on his way from Egyptian TV to…
Amir El-Masry’s Escape From Typecasting to Hollywood
How Amir El-Masry escaped a career of typecast comic roles, retrained at LAMDA, and refused Hollywood's usual scripts for Arab actors on…