Download or read book Barra and Zaman: Reading Egyptian Modernity in Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy written by Youssef Rakha and published by Palgrave Pivot. This book was released on 2021-12-31 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brilliantly introduced by Nezar Andary, this book is a work of creative nonfiction that approaches writing on film in a fresh and provocative way. It draws on academic, literary, and personal material to start a dialogue with the Egyptian filmmaker Shadi Abdel Salam’s The Mummy (1969), tracing the many meanings of Egypt’s postcolonial modernity and touching on Arab, Muslim, and ancient Egyptian identities through watching the film.