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Filmmaker · Egypt

Kamal El Sheikh

Died in 2004

Kamal El Sheikh was born on 5 February 1919, in the province of Menoufia according to Ahram Online. Having joined Studio Misr's editing department in the late thirties, he shot his first film in 1952 and directed more than thirty-five until 1987. He was nicknamed the Egyptian Hitchcock. According to Ahram Online, he brought three novels by Naguib Mahfouz to the screen and in 1991 received the State Appreciation Prize for the arts. He died in 2004, in Cairo.

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