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The cinema of Lebanon, according to film critic and historian Roy Armes, is the only other cinema in the Arabic-speaking region, beside Egypt's, that could amount to a national cinema. [7] Cinema in Lebanon has been in existence since the 1920s, [ 8 ] and the country has produced more than 500 films.
According to film critic and historian Roy Armes, Lebanese cinema is the only other cinema in the Arabic-speaking region that could amount to a national cinema. [ 40 ] While Egyptian and Lebanese films have a long history of production, most other Arab countries did not witness film production until after independence.
The first known cinema in Jordan was the Petra Cinema in 1935. However, it is said that there was a cinema called 'Abu Siyah' in the 1920s and one of the first films it screened were Charlie Chaplin's silent films. [36] As opposed to Egypt and Lebanon, Jordan joined the film industry much later, with their first films being released in the 1950s.
The center has a museum, library, cinema, theater, and exhibition halls. [6] It was designed by the Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta. [7] The center has been listed in Time magazine as one of the world's top 100 places to visit [1] [8] and attracted one million visitors in 2019. [9]
Arabian Center (In Arabic: أرابيان سنتر) is a shopping mall in Dubai which opened on 1 March 2009 and is managed by Al-Futtaim Malls. [1] It is located at Khawaneej Road, Al Mizhar , near Mirdif in Dubai , United Arab Emirates .
Alliance Cinemas – after selling its BC locations, it now operates only one theater in Toronto; Cinémas Guzzo – 10 locations and 142 screens in the Montreal area; Cineplex Cinemas – Canada's largest and North America's fifth-largest movie theater company, with 162 locations and 1,635 screens
As a political response to an increase in Islamist activism, including the 1979 seizure of the Grand Mosque in Mecca, the government closed all cinemas and theaters. [13] During the cinema ban, the only public theater in Saudi Arabia was a single IMAX cinema located in Khobar at the Sultan Bin Abdulaziz Science and Technology Center. [14]
The Egyptian National Film Centre (ENFC), which theoretically holds copies of all films made after 1961, is according to one Egyptian film researcher, "far from being a library, houses piles of rusty cans containing positive copies." [49] The year 2007, however, saw a considerable spike in the number of Egyptian films made. In 1997, the number ...