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Youssef El Sebai
Writer 1917 - 1978

Youssef El Sebai

Cyprus

Youssef El Sebaei was an Egyptian novelist. He was born in Cairo in 1917, and joined the Military Faculty in 1935, and stayed there as a staff member for years following his graduation. He started his writing career in the mid 1940's, beginning with short stories, and then... Read full bio →

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Al-saqqa mat

Al-saqqa mat

Salah Abu Seif 1977 1h 43m

The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years before, spends his days thinking about her. The other, who works in the funeral business, spends his life in the pursuit of pleasure because he recognizes that death will bring an end to all enjoyment.

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