{"id":69917,"date":"2026-06-11T15:38:22","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T11:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=69917"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T14:19:25","slug":"the-blazing-sun-dir-youssef-chahine-1954","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-blazing-sun-dir-youssef-chahine-1954\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blazing Sun: dir Youssef Chahine (1954)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In pre-1952 Luxor, newly graduated agricultural engineer Ahmed helps his village upgrade their crops. That threatens the interests of their feudalist landlord, Taher Pasha; seeking revenge, Pasha and his conniving nephew, Riad, devise a plan to flood the peasants\u2019 fields, spoiling the crop and setting off a murderous chain of events. The conflict is complicated by the star-crossed romance between Ahmed and the Pasha\u2019s daughter, Amal, and Riad\u2019s scheme to force her into marrying him &#8230; Stars Faten Hamama and a young Omar Sharif.<\/p>\n<p>Screens in the Jameel&#8217;s second Summer Cinema programme, in collaboration with Hind Mezaina&#8217;s Culturist Film Club. Screenings are followed by an informal discussion with invited guests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">In pre-1952 Luxor, newly graduated agricultural engineer Ahmed helps his village upgrade their crops. That threatens the interests of their feudalist landlord, Taher Pasha; seeking revenge, Pasha and his conniving nephew, Riad, devise a plan to flood the peasants\u2019 fields, <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/event\/the-blazing-sun-dir-youssef-chahine-1954\/\" title=\"The Blazing Sun: dir Youssef Chahine (1954)\"> [&#8230; more]<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":69918,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[52],"class_list":["post-69917","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","tribe_events_cat-film","cat_film"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/69917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/69917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69917"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/magpie.ae\/staging4\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=69917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}