Director-writer Mohamed Diab's timely film stars Dubai Film Festival Best Actress winner Bushra as one of three Egyptian women who rebel against their country's history of sexual harassment. By Frank ...

IT'S WITH AUSPICIOUS timing that Mohamed Diab's Cairo 678 screens locally, with Egypt and its horror show of social tumult on everyone's mind. 678 deals pointedly with the issue of rampant sexual ...

The winner of the 2011 Sydney Film Prize came down to a tight contest between two Middle Eastern films, Ashgar Farhadi’s "A Separation" from Iran and Mohamed Diab’s "Cairo 678" from Egypt, but it was ...

INDIANAPOLIS, Oct. 21 (UPI) -- Egyptian filmmaker and revolutionary Mohamed Diab's film "Cairo 678" won Best Narrative Feature, the top prize at the Heartland Film Festival in Indianapolis. When Diab ...

Riots are scary enough, but being locked in a police van in the midst of a riot ups the ante. So Mohamed Diab was asking a lot when he put his cast through the harrowing sequences of “Clash,” the ...

Mohamed Diab, the critically-acclaimed Egyptian director of “Cairo 678” and “Clash,” is prepping “Deja,” a politically-charged film set in Palestine. “Deja” is inspired by true stories of Palestinian ...

678 is the first Egyptian film to explore the many dimensions of sexual harassment, but perhaps it comes several decades too late No film in Egypt's recent history has attempted the task of addressing ...

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“Angels curse women who reject their husbands!” complains a frustrated man in the film Cairo 678. When his more frustrated wife replies by asking if sex is what he married her for, he says yes. “I ...

SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: Writer/director Mohamed Diab leaves no room for ambiguity in his depiction of modern Cairo. As deconstructed in his flawed but fiery drama Cairo 678, it is a truly awful place ...

Caito 678 is screening for one night only this Sunday at the Whitsell, though it was originally released in 2010. It is, as the name would suggest, an Egyptian film, one that specifically deals with ...