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The history of the late Waḥīd Ḥāmid’s works shows that he was a role model for artists and creative types.  He knew, according to the title of his early film “Man Only Lives Once” (1981) that the intellectual’s intense struggle with power would bring an end to the stable life that he had wanted to...
Author and screenwriter Waḥīd Ḥāmid passed away at the age of 77 on January 2. He is considered one of the most important and prominent people in Egyptian Cinema with regards to countering terrorism and the extremism of political Islam.
Ḥāmid starts his article by stating his own opinion on the trending Fatwa kiosk by saying, “ The Fatwa Kiosk is a heresy invented by hastened Shaykhs. 
Waḥīd Ḥāmid compares the Islamic Justice and Development Party [AKP] in Turkey, which has reached power, and the Muslim Brotherhood group in Egypt. He believes that the Turkish party has managed to attain power by concerning themselves with the real problems of people, unlike Islamists in Egypt...
The article talks about the increasing violence on both the Islamic and Christian sides when a mixed religion marriage takes place.
Information Minister Mamduh al-Beltagui’s landmark decision to refer the TV series Bint min Shubra [A girl from Shubra], starring Laila Elwi, to the Egyptian Church and the Azhar for opinion has sparked a row. All this haggling was because the heroine Maria, a Catholic Italian, is getting married...
In an unprecedented event in Egyptian cinema, Baheb al-Sima (I Love Cinema) portrays members of a Christian family as the protagonists in a film that deals with family relationships set in the 1960s. The film caused much controversy not only because it is the first film to show Christian as the...
Supporters of Sheikh Amr Khaled praise his preaching and his efforts to teach youths their religion. His opponents believe he has shallow religious knowledge and thus is not qualified to preach. Al-Arabi attacks a Coptic journalist because he expressed his opinion on Khaled and the issue of the...
Mahmoud al-Kurdi believed that "Awan al-Ward" highlighted the fact that building the civilization of Egypt would not be achieved except through the arms of both Muslims and Christians. Awdet Iskander wrote that Wahid Hamid was mistaken when he chose a mixed marital relationship as the plot of...
Hani Labeeb wrote to al-Usboa criticizing the reaction of some Coptic religious men towards the serial "Awan al- Ward," as being extremist. Two articles in al-Ahram praised the series, confirming that there is love between Muslims and Christians. The writer of the serial told al-Raya al-Masri...

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