Born on October 26, 1942, He completed his high school in Egypt, then traveled to England where studied at the London School of Film Technique (now known as The London Int. Film School) between 1962 and 1963. He directed several 8mms. He came back to Egypt in 1963 and worked at script department of the General Egyptian FIlm company. Worked in Lebanon between 1964 and 1966 as an assistant director, then moved to England where he wrote his book “An Introduction to the Egyptian Cinema”, Published in London by Informatics in 1969. Edited another Book entitled “Outline of Czechoslovakian Cinema”, which was also published in London by Informatics in 1971.
He has one daughter, Nadine, and one son, Hassan. According to the book that has been issued in December 2007 in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Khan’s Ahlam Hind we Kamilia (1988) is one of the 100 landmarks in the history of the Cinema of Egypt. 1963 and working all the way till now, the man still does not have the Egyptian nationality… read more
Born on October 26, 1942, He completed his high school in Egypt, then traveled to England where studied at the London School of Film Technique (now known as The London Int. Film School) between 1962 and 1963. He directed several 8mms. He came back to Egypt in 1963 and worked at script department of the General Egyptian FIlm company. Worked in Lebanon between 1964 and 1966 as an assistant director, then moved to England where he wrote his book “An Introduction to the Egyptian Cinema”, Published in London by Informatics in 1969. Edited another Book entitled “Outline of Czechoslovakian Cinema”, which was also published in London by Informatics in 1971.
He has one daughter, Nadine, and one son, Hassan. According to the book that has been issued in December 2007 in the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Khan’s Ahlam Hind we Kamilia (1988) is one of the 100 landmarks in the history of the Cinema of Egypt. 1963 and working all the way till now, the man still does not have the Egyptian nationality.
Khan has accomplished a couple of “Art Pieces” that can hardly be accomplished again. For instance, in this very film, El Harrif, he convince one of the most famous and successful comedians of all times in the Arab World, Adel Emam, to star in this very darkly viewed story. It is said that Adel Emam himself does not like this film now, but for me it is still considered to be one of the Master pieces in the history of Egyptian Cinema and it shows how deep can Emam goes in acting if only he can stop working on those trivial scripts that he got from time to time and earn him success among the mainstream cinema viewers in the Arab World. But may be the man chose his way, but for Khan, we can say that he has chosen the more Difficult way, the way via which he had always to produce meticulously crafted movies, working on stories – mainly that he wrote – with great script writers, among which is Beshir El Deek, to produce movies that simply touch the inner soul of any Egyptian who may view them after years and years of their production. —Wikipedia
