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One character, Raouf, is a male homosexual. Habib said that Raouf "subverts popular understandbing of homosexuality by being unable to be brought back into the norm of heterosexual desires."<ref name=Habib120/> |
One character, Raouf, is a male homosexual. Habib said that Raouf "subverts popular understandbing of homosexuality by being unable to be brought back into the norm of heterosexual desires."<ref name=Habib120/> Raouf makes advances towards Ahmad, who cannot comprehend them.<ref name=Habib121/> |
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Revision as of 17:10, 22 February 2013
Malaṯily Bathhouse (Template:Lang-ar "Ĥamam al-Malaṯily") is a 1973 Egyptian film directed by Salah Abu Seif. The main actors are Shams al-Baroudi and Yusuf Shåban. It is adapted from a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. Samar Habib, author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations, said "that the title of the film can "be easily translated" as Malatily Bathhouse."[1] The opening credits of the film have the English title An Egyptian Tragedy. Habib said that it was "strangely translated" into An Egyptian Tragedy.[1]
Plot
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The beginning shows what Habib calls a "long scenic tribute" to Cairo and to the general city.[1] Habib said that the director "visually implies the polymorphous vagaries of the city in which an immoral underworld is bound to flourish.[2]
Habib said "There appears to be a sensitive awareness that foreign viewers of the film should not regard its content as conspiring with or approving of the morally loose behaviour of the libertines it depicts."[1] Habib argues that this seems to depict Egyptian society in a "state of disarray" likely to be occurring during the Suez Crisis.[3]
The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, get an apartment for his parents, and obtain a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. While there, Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a male homosexual. Ali later has Ahmad work as his accountant.[3]
Cast and characters
One character, Raouf, is a male homosexual. Habib said that Raouf "subverts popular understandbing of homosexuality by being unable to be brought back into the norm of heterosexual desires."[1] Raouf makes advances towards Ahmad, who cannot comprehend them.[3]
See also
References
- Habib, Samar. Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. Routledge, July 18, 2007. ISBN 0415956730, 9780415956734.