The Cairo Trilogy

Three episodes. First broadcast from 20061015 to 20061029.

Omar Sharif stars in this generational saga chronicling the life of a middle class, and downwardly mobile, family in an Egypt adjusting to the modern world. Dramatised from the novels of Naguib Mahfouz.

 
 
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012006101520061021The First World War is ending, and then there is a popular uprising in March 1919, when the eldest son Fahmy joins the nationalist cause.
022006102220061028The late 1920s see Egypt nominally independent but still under British influence. In the mid 1930s, an outbreak of typhoid has a tragic effect on the family.
03 LAST2006102920061104The Second World War has a devastating effect on the family business and one of the grandchildren is sucked into radical Islam.

Cast and Crew

  • aida....shirine el ansari
  • al-sayyid ahmad abd al-jawab....ihab sakkout
  • amina....caroline khalil
  • director John Dryden
  • fahmy....mena reda
  • kamal....amr waked
  • miriam....ola roshdy
  • old kamal....omar sharif
  • yasin....tamer nasrat
  • young kamal....karim fouda
  • zanuba....maryam el khoshed
  • zubayda....zeinab moubarak