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Tawfiq Saleh
Directing
27 Oct 1926
† 18 Aug 2013
Alexandria, Egypt
Biography
The director of seven shorts and seven full-length feature films, Saleh graduated in 1949 in English literature and was trained in cinema in Paris until 1951. Tewfik Saleh's oeuvre is the only one in Egyptian cinema which may be considered purely "Third Worldist". All his films deal with social injustice, underdevelopment, political abuse and the class struggle. His first film, Darb al-mahabil (1955), co-written by Najeeb Mahfouz, was set in a popular neighborhood but represented a kind of alle...
Also Known As
Taufiq Salih, توفيق صالح
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