Arabic-language cinema spans many regions, with Egypt pioneering popular musicals and melodramas, while Lebanon, Palestine, and North Africa use film as a medium for political expression and memory. Collectively, it expresses Arab identity onscreen and has influenced storytelling across the Middle East.

Ahmed Marei and Shafik Nour El Din in The Mummy (1969)

Aristocratic Khaireya loses her fiancé Amin to Fatma after her wealthy family lost its fortune. To save her face, she agrees to marry Fayez, a self-made man, despite not loving him. However she comes to love him and appreciate his kindness

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