![]() ![]() "I think will be like a document of the time we live in," he says, noting that the movie says in public what many citizens are thinking in private. The crumbling façade represents the fading glory of. ![]() The architecture is an old European style, symbolizing the colonialist legacy that touches the lives of the characters. ![]() Wahid Hamed is Egypt's most celebrated screenwriter and wrote the screenplay for Yacoubian. The building that gives the book its title, the Yacoubian Building is a physical manifestation of many of the narrative’s preoccupying themes. It tackles subjects considered taboo in traditional Egyptian society, such as homosexuality, and even features a corrupt imam. Yacoubian takes a look at sometimes uncomfortable truths about life in contemporary Egypt. Now, the novel is being made into a star-studded, $3 million film - a large budget by Egyptian standards - which the producer hopes will be "an Egyptian Ocean's Eleven."īut the significance of The Yacoubian Building transcends its record-setting budget and its pantheon of top Egyptian actors. It follows the lives of residents both rich and poor of the Yacoubian, an actual apartment building in downtown Cairo. The controversial, best-selling Egyptian novel The Yacoubian Building describes a country that is corrupt, unfair and thuggish. ![]()
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