Photo of Samir Seif
Photo of Samir Seif

Samir Seif

“Censorship was first a section of the Ministry of Interior, and then it passed to be a section of the Ministry of Culture and Guidance. It is very strange with the censorship because it always depends on who is the head, who is in charge. If it is a cultured man then there is a margin of liberty if it was just an employee, a bureaucratic one then all the art suffers a lot. So it always depends on who is in charge. Of course politics was the main taboo. It could even tolerate sex but when it came first to politics second to religion, no.”

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