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About Tarek El Shennawi
- Tarek El Shinnawi (sometimes spelled El Shennawi or Shennawy) (Arabic: ???? ??????? ) is an internationally recognised and renowned film critic and writer of Arab cinema.
- He is one of the most influential film critics of Arab cinema in the region, based in Cairo, Egypt.
- he writes in most of the top Arabic newspapers, magazines and websites for more than 30 years, he has more than 15 published books on Arab cinema various subjects.
- He also teaches the subject of film critique to the students in the final years of The Cairo university, faculty of Mass-communication.
- He has numerous cinematic participations in arbitration committees of International and Arab festivals.
- He has been frequently appointed as a jury member in Arab film festivals (as in the 12th Osian's-Cinefan Film Festival 2012, 9th Dubai International Film Festival 2012, 8th Abu Dhabi Film Festival 2014).He has made calls for reform of the old-fashioned censorship regulations that disallow cinema and TV to impersonate the prophets.
- These regulations were made in 1926 when Youssef Wahbi desired to make a film depicting prophet Muhammad which was disallowed by Al-Azhar.
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