Egyptian lobby cards combined a film’s poster art, still photographs from the set, and a credit list that usually included the production company, cast and crew, director, screenwriter, and music composer—excellent tools for the study of the history of cinema and highly desirable collectors’ items.
Pierre Sioufi (1961–2018), iconic collector, artist, and revolutionary godfather to young activists who led the 2011 Egyptian uprising, amassed a vast quantity of cinema ephemera over the course of his lifetime. Dream Factory on the Nile presents a glimpse of his extensive collection of Egyptian film lobby cards spanning the growth, glory years, and decline of Egyptian cinema between the 1930s and 1990s.
Includes a concise introduction by Rasha Azab to the history of Egyptian film production from its birth in Alexandria at the turn of the twentieth century to the late 1990s. A Zeitouna publication.
Dream Factory on the Nile
Pierre Sioufi Collection of Egyptian Cinema Lobby Cards
Egyptian lobby cards combined a film’s poster art, still photographs from the set, and a credit list that usually included the production company, c
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Sherif Boraie is an editor and publisher based in Cairo. He founded his imprint, Zeitouna, in 1988, under which he has published forty highly illustrated books on Egyptian history, from the pharaohs to modern times.
Rasha Azab
Rasha Azab is a journalist, researcher, and scriptwriter with years of experience writing for and about
the Egyptian film industry. She is the author of Cinema Cairo (Zeitouna, 2017).
