Tamara Maatouk - The Emergence of the Cinema Crisis in 1950s Egypt

This lecture will be hosted on Wednesday, 6 May 2026 at 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm.

This talk will trace how a group of Egyptian film administrators and professionals in conversation with fellow artists, critics, and other intellectuals debated the problems facing the film industry in the mid-1950s, posing them as a crisis and proposing state intervention, including socialist solutions, as a remedy.

About the Speaker

Tamara Maatouk is an assistant professor of film studies in the Department of the Arts at The American University in Cairo. She is a historian of the modern Middle East and North Africa, with a focus on film as an art form, an industry and a social practice.

Attention!

The lecture starts at 6 pm. The number of seats is limited and we work on a first-come, first-served basis. We open our doors at 5:30 and close them at 6:15 or earlier in case the lecture room reaches its full capacity.