Inas Abdel Dayem to include 207 films in Egyptian cinematic

CAIRO – 14 June 2019: Egyptian Minister of Culture Inas Abdel Dayem included 207 Egyptian films in the Egyptian Cinematic archive which houses National cinematic heritage.

Abdel Dayem further added that Egypt is the second country in the world that has a complete cinema industry.

The Egyptian minister of culture explained that the art of cinema is one of the important tributaries that have formed part of the features of the Arab identity.

The Egyptian Ministry of culture decided to create the first documented archive of the Egyptian cinema and its heritage since 1896 and name it "Egyptian Cinematic" in 2018.

The "Egyptian Cinematic" comes in light of the ministry's efforts to immortalize the Egyptian cinematic heritage through the creation of a documented archive.

The Egyptian cinema was the first representative of Egyptians to the Arab world and the representative of Egyptians and Arabs to the rest of the world.

Head of the National Film Center, Khaled Abdel Jalil, previously stated that the archive comes as part of the Ministry of Culture efforts to support the Egyptian cinematic heritage that represented the Egyptian and Arab identity and culture for decades.