Arabic-L:PEDA:Night of Counting the Years (fusha movie) online

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Date: 11 Feb 2008
From:Benjamin Geer" <benjamin.geer at gmail.com>
Subject:Night of Counting the Years (fusha movie) online

This may interest teachers and students of Modern Standard Arabic as
well as those who are interested in Egyptian film.

I tried for years to locate a copy of Shadi Abd Al-Salam's film "The
Night of Counting the Years" (1969), also known as "The Mummy"
(Al-Mumiaa'), a classic of Egyptian cinema whose dialogue is entirely
in Modern Standard Arabic.  I was told in video shops in Cairo that
it's no longer distributed.  I finally obtained a copy in the form of
two DVDs, without subtitles, from an academic colleague; I don't know
who made this version, which appears to be a non-commercial effort.
As a public service, I've made it available for download here:

http://www.archive.org/details/The_Night_of_Counting_the_Years_DVD

I've also provided a subtitled version of the film, in the form of
smaller video files with separate subtitle files that I've written in
Arabic (for language learners) as well as English:

http://www.archive.org/details/The_Night_of_Counting_the_Years

Various media player programs can play the video with the subtitles on
a computer.  If anyone is willing and able to combine the subtitles
with the DVDs, to create a DVD version of the film with its own
built-in subtitles, I think that would be a great public service.

Ben

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