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Filmmaker · Egypt

Yousry Nasrallah

Yousry Nasrallah was born in Cairo in 1952. He studied statistics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science of Cairo University, frequented film clubs, and was then a film critic in Beirut from 1978 to 1982. Back in Cairo, he became Youssef Chahine's assistant and co-wrote two of his films, according to Africultures. His work as a director, begun in 1988, has been honoured at Locarno and selected in competition at Cannes in 2012.

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