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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 May 2019
This article explores the coloniality of gender, sexuality, and desire, and the links between nationalist and commercial imperatives, in the making of Egypt's first sound film, or talkie, in 1932. Through an analysis of the politics, economy, and memory of Yusuf Wahbi's film Awlad al-Dhawat (Sons of the Aristocrats), it shows how the interplay between new sound technologies, the global film trade, and nationalist and racialized narratives of gender and resistance shaped the contours of ideal femininity and masculinity during the interwar period in Egypt. The article also shows how the film's representations formed at the intersection between the filmmakers’ attempts to challenge colonial stereotyping and their efforts to capture an ever-expanding global film market. Often neglected in cinema scholarship, early filmmaking in Egypt, I argue, is critical to understanding wider processes of nation formation and gendered characterizations.
Author's note: I am grateful to the anonymous IJMES reviewers and the IJMES editors for their invaluable comments and suggestions. Many thanks to the friends and colleagues, especially Robert Aldrich, Nijmeh Hajjar, Rudolf de Jong, and ʿAlla Arraf, who read the article at various stages and helped me think through its ideas.
1 See, e.g., “Awlad al-Dhawat,” Ruz al-Yusuf, 14 September 1931, 17; Fikri Abaza, “Film Awlad al-Dhawat,” al-Ahram, 18 March 1932, 7; and “Film Awlad al-Dhawat ʿala al-Shasha al-Baydaʾ,” al-Hisan, 27 March 1932, 3.
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17 Karim, Mudhakkirat Muhammad Karim, 169.
18 Ibid., 170
19 “Maʿlumat Zarifa ʿan Film Awlad al-Dhawat,” 11.
20 “Hal Taʿlam” al-Kawakib, 2 May 1932, 11.
21 The plot of the film was published in al-Kawakib shortly after the film's release; “Qisas al-Kawakib: Awlad al-Dhawat, Taʾlif al-Ustaz Yusuf Wahbi,” al-Kawakib, 4 April 1932, 19–21. The film's storyline and excerpts from the script have been gathered from several sources. The film itself is lost, but a two-minute clip of it can be found on YouTube; “Muqabala Qadima Maʿ Yusuf Wahbi,” YouTube video, accessed 19 October 2018, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xii3bGgKmtI.
22 Wahbi, Yusuf, ʿIshtu Alf ʿAm (Cairo: Dar al-Maʿarif, 1978), 197–203Google Scholar. This ʿAli Fahmi should not be confused with the nationalist leader and brother of Mustafa Kamil, ʿAli Fahmi Kamil.
23 There are only two works in English that deal with the Fahmi murder. One mainly focuses on the Egyptian perspective, and the other on the British perspective. See, respectively, Shaun Timothy Lopez, “Media Sensations, Contested Sensibilities: Gender and Moral Order in the Egyptian Mass Media, 1920–1955” (PhD diss., University of Michigan, 2004), 100–37; and Bland, Lucy, “The Trial of Madame Fahmi: Orientalism, Violence, Sexual Perversity and the Fear of Miscegenation,” in Everyday Violence in Britain: Gender and Class, ed. D'Cruze, Shani (Harlow, UK: Pearson Education Limited, 2000), 185–97Google Scholar.
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27 According to Lucy Bland, English reactions to the Fahmi trial constituted part of a wider fascination with Arab desert narratives, including the famous desert film The Sheik popularized in Britain during this period. Bland, “The Trial of Madame Fahmi,” 191–93.
28 See editions of al-Ahram from 12 September 1923 to 19 September 1923. This press coverage as well as a documentary about the life of ʿAli Kamil Fahmi produced in 1923 made the case accessible to a wide Egyptian audience. On the documentary, see Chadi, Aly Abou, A Chronology of the Egyptian Cinema in One Hundred Years, 1896–1994, trans. Amine, Nora (Cairo: al-Majlis al-Aʿla li-l-Thaqafa, 1998), 18Google Scholar.
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30 Marjoribanks, For the Defence, 437.
31 Ibid.
32 Ibid., 438.
33 Ibid., 433.
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39 Ibid., 201.
40 Ibid.
41 Ibid.
42 Quoted in al-Hadari, Ahmad, Tarikh al-Sinima fi Misr: al-Juzʾ al-Thani min Bidayat 1931 li-Akhir 1940 (Cairo: al-Hayʾa al-Misriyya al-ʿamma li-l-Kitab, 2007), 36Google Scholar.
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44 “Qisas al-Kawakib,” 20.
45 Karim, Mudhakkirat, 173–74.
46 Shaun Timothy Lopez argues that the working-class background of foreign wives in part precipitated anxieties about mixed marriages. Lopez, “Media Sensations, Contested Sensibilities,” 109. Naguib Mahfouz captures this class dynamic well in his novel Palace of Desire, the second part of his Cairo Trilogy. Upon speaking about marriage to European women, Ismaʿil, one of the characters in the novel, comments, “Do you know what it means to marry a European? In a word, you ‘win’ a woman from the lowest classes, one willing to submit to a man she secretly feels only fit for servitude.” Mahfouz, Naguib, Palace of Desire, trans. Maynard, William Hutchins, Lorne M. Kenny, and Olive E. Kenny (London: Black Swan, 1994), 314Google Scholar.
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52 “Misri Yuhabbidh al-Zawaj min al-Ajnabiyyat: Baynama Fatayatuna al-Mutaʿallimat Yasrukhuna min Azmat al-Zawaj,” al-Sabah, 6 January 1933, 13.
53 See “Fatat Yunaniyya Tahjur Ahlaha min Ajl Shabb Misri,” al-Sabah, 13 November 1931, 33; and “Fatat Britaniyya Taʿshaq Shabb Misri,” al-Sabah, 2 October 1931, 23.
54 Kholoussy, “Stolen Husbands, Foreign Wives,” 218–21.
55 Quoted in ibid., 222.
56 Karim, Mudhakkirat, 187.
57 Yusuf Wahbi quoted in Yusuf Wahbi wa-l-Dhikrayat, ed. Ahmad, Muhammad ʿIsa (Cairo: Matbaʿat al-Dar al-Misriyya, 1973), 64Google Scholar.
58 Cited in “Ashwak,” al-Kawakib, 11 April 1932, 3.
59 “The Cinema Evil: Corrupting the Young,” Egyptian Mail, 21 October 1917, 1.
60 This is related to broader anxiety over the purity of white women in colonial rhetoric. See in particular the literature on the Black Peril or Yellow Peril: O'Donnell, Krista, “Poisonous Women: Sexual Danger, Illicit Violence, and Domestic Work in German South Africa, 1904–1915,” Journal of Women's History 11 (1999): 32–54CrossRefGoogle Scholar; McCulloch, Jock, Black Peril, White Virtue: Sexual Crime in Southern Rhodesia, 1902–1935 (Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2000)Google Scholar; Yi Lui, Mary Ting, The Chinatown Trunk Mystery: Murder, Miscegenation, and Other Dangerous Encounters in Turn-of-the-Century New York City (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005)Google Scholar; and Nicolosi, Ann Marie, “‘We Do Not Want Our Girls to Marry Foreigners’: Gender, Race, and American Citizenship,” NWSA Journal 13 (2001): 1–21Google Scholar.
61 British commentators also worried about film posters representing white women in India; Arora, Poonam, “‘Imperilling the Prestige of the White Woman’: Colonial Anxiety and Film Censorship in British India,” Visual Anthropology Review: 11 (1995): 39CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
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65 Arora, “‘Imperilling the Prestige of the White Woman,’” 41.
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68 For more on the film, see Madkur Thabit, ed., Zaynab al-Adib Haykal ʿala al-Shasha al-Misriyya (Cairo: al-Majlis al-Aʿla li-l-Thaqafa, 1996. For a historical overview of the novel Zaynab, see Colla, Elliott, “How Zaynab Became the First Arabic Novel,” History Compass 7 (2009): 214–25CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
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70 “Qisas al-Kawakib,” 21.
71 Scholarship on the construction of domestic roles for Egyptian woman include Pollard, Lisa, Nurturing the Nation: The Family Politics of Modernizing, Colonizing, and Liberating Egypt, 1805–1923 (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2005)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Baron, Beth, The Woman's Awakening in Egypt: Culture, Society, and the Press (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1994), esp. 144–67Google Scholar; and El-Shakry, Omnia, “Schooled Mothers and Structured Play: Child Rearing in Turn-of-the-Century Egypt,” in Remaking Women: Feminism and Modernity in the Middle East, ed. Abu-Lughod, Lila (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998), 126–70Google Scholar. On Egyptian constructions of wifehood, see Kholoussy, Hanan, For Better, For Worse: The Marriage Crisis That Made Modern Egypt (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2010), 49–76Google Scholar; Reynolds, Nancy Y., “Salesclerks, Sexual Danger, and Sexual Identity in Egypt, 1920s–1950s,” Journal of Women's History, 23 (2011): 63–88CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Lopez, Shaun T., “The Dangers of Dancing: The Media and Morality in 1930s Egypt,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 24 (2004): 97–105CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
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73 Ibid., 30.
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75 On the press coverage surrounding the establishment of the Arabic Language Academy, see Yunan Labib Rizk, “Academy of Arabic,” al-Ahram Weekly Online, accessed 3 December 2018, http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/647/chrncls.htm . See also Israel Gershoni and James P. Jankowski, Redefining the Egyptian Nation, 1930–1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 128–30.
76 Dougherty, Roberta L., “Badiʿa Masabni, Artiste, and Modernist: The Egyptian Print Media's Carnival of National Identity,” in Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond, ed. Armbrust, Walter (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 2000), 262Google Scholar.
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82 See also the last page of Misr al-Haditha al-Musawwara, 29 January 1929.
83 Karim suggests that Hafiz fainted on the set, and left Paris the next day. He did not provide an explanation as to what may have angered her. Karim, Mudhakkirat, 172. In an article Hafiz wrote years after the film, she admitted to having disputed with Wahbi “over some technical matters,” and recalled locking herself in her room and refusing to take part in the filming; Bahiga Hafez, “On the Egyptian Silent Film.”
84 “Hiya Riwayat Awlad al-Dhawat Aydan,” 22–24.
85 For a representative example of Amina Rizk's intonation, pitch, and pacing of voice, see the film al-Tariq al-Mustaqim.
86 “Maʿlumat Zarifa ʿan Film Awlad al-Dhawat,” 11.
87 The relative openness to female film spectatorship in Egypt was in stark contrast to the situation in Syria where women had a harder time going to the cinema; Thompson, Elizabeth, “Sex and Cinema in Damascus: The Gendered Politics of Public Space in a Colonial City,” in Middle Eastern Cities, 1900–1950: Public Spaces and Public Spheres in Transformation, ed. Chr., Hans Korsholm Nielson and Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (Gylling: Aarhus University Press, 2001), 89–111.Google Scholar
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89 Wahbi, ʿIshtu Alf ʿAm, 201.
90 Kholoussy, “Stolen Husbands, Foreign Wives,” 214.
91 Much of my argument here is inspired by the works of Karen Mahar and Mark Garrett Cooper and their assessment of the decline of female directors in early Hollywood. See Karen Mahar, Women Filmmakers in Early Hollywood (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006); and Mark Garrett Cooper, Universal Women: Filmmaking and Institutional Change in Early Hollywood (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010). More research needs to be conducted on this matter in the Egyptian context.
92 Al-Hadari, Tarikh al-Sinima fi Misr, 2:34.
93 Kholoussy, “Stolen Husbands, Foreign Wives,” 206–40.
94 “Muqabala Qadima maʿ Yusuf Wahbi.”
95 The film was exported to Syria, where it was a hit among audiences. Elizabeth Thompson, in her work on cinemas in Damascus, refers to French reports of cheers by a Syrian audience during a film screening that depicted an Egyptian man striking his French wife and lover. This film was Awlad al-Dhawat; Thompson, “Sex and Cinema in Damascus,” 102. See also Thompson, Elizabeth, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon (New York: Columbia University Press, 2000), 201Google Scholar. The screening of Awlad al-Dhawat in Syria points to a wider question of how the film traveled to and was received in other colonized spaces.
96 “Qisas al-Kawakib,” 21.
97 For more on trams, speed, and imported modernities, see Barak, On Time, 152–74.
98 A short excerpt of this scene can be viewed in “Muqabala Qadima Maʿ Yusuf Wahbi.”
99 Hanan Kholoussy has recently shifted scholarly attention to Egyptian state control of male sexuality; Kholoussy, “Monitoring and Medicalising Male Sexuality in Semi-Colonial Egypt,” Gender and History 22 (2010): 677–91.
100 Egyptian men's choice of partner was not only open to debate in the media, but also, in some cases, regulated by the law. It is widely known that colonial powers often discouraged and at times banned their female citizens from marrying men from colonized communities. However, Egyptian laws also regulated certain Egyptian men's marriage to non-Egyptians. On British attitudes toward mixed marriages in Egypt, see Mak, Lanver, The British in Egypt: Community, Crime and Crises 1882–1922 (London: I.B.Tauris, 2012), 72–80Google Scholar. On mixed-marriages in Egypt, see Kholoussy, Hanan, “Interfaith Unions and Non-Muslim Wives in Early Twentieth Century Alexandrian Courts,” in Untold Histories of the Middle East: Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries, ed. Singer, Amy, Neumann, Christoph K. and Somel, Selçuk Aksin (London: Routledge, 2011), 54–70Google Scholar. In 1932, a law was introduced to prohibit men in the Foreign Service from marrying non-Egyptian women. As Hanan Kholoussy has shown, this law was rooted in broader anticolonial anxieties of the period; Kholoussy, “The Private Affairs of Public Officials.” 483–503. It did not take long for the law to take effect. On 11 April 1932, Ruz al-Yusuf magazine reported that Ramsis Shafiʿi was removed from his position as Egyptian consul in Paris for marrying a Russian woman. See “Zawaj Ramsis Shafiʿi Bey min Sayyida Rusiyya wa-l-Qanun al-Jadid Alladhi Yuharrim ʿala Rijal al-Silk al-Siyasi al-Zawaj bi-l-Ajnabiyyat,” Ruz al-Yusuf , 11 April 1932, 14.
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110 Karim, Mudhakkirat, 94.
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112 Ibid.
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