JSTOR is part of , a not-for-profit organization helping the academic community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways | By making controversial films especially No Time for Love, 1962 that can be grasped by the general spectator, Abu Seif has contributed to the on-going debate on change, development and film theory |
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Some of his films tended towards naturalism Rayya and Sakina, 1953 , romanticism The Empty Pillow, 1957 , and even lyricism The Water-carrier Died, 1977 ; but within these orientations Abu Seif remains loyal to representing the social fabric of the society, bringing the spectator to the real world so as to question her or his reality | It presents scholarly articles in Arabic, English and occasionally French |
Many of Abu Seif's films are based on novels written by Naguib Mahfouz, Ihsan 'Abdel Quddus, Yusuf al-Siba'i, Yusuf al-Qa'id among others.
26He has been consistent in his forty and some odd films to principles of enlightening and recovering the real | The American University in Cairo Press is recognized as the leading English-language publisher of the Middle East, and publishes a wide range of scholarly monographs, reference works, and general books on ancient and modern Egypt and the Middle East, as well as Arabic literature in English translation, most notably the works of Egypt's Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz |
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The multiplicity of themes in his work stems from his desire to cover the richness and myriad experiences of Egyptian life |
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