The Cairo Trilogy on BBC Radio
A big thank you to reader Marwa for alerting me to a BBC Radio rendition of Naguib Mahfouz’s Cairo Trilogy, featuring the great Omar Sharif and my friend Ihab Sakkout (he’s also great):
The Cairo Trilogy, part 1 of 3
By Naguib Mahfouz, dramatised by Ayeesha Menon
Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab, a prosperous shopkeeper, is a tyrant at home who terrorises his wife and two daughters and keeps them in strict seclusion behind the house’s latticed windows. But outside the home he is a serial womaniser with an appetite for plump, middle-aged singers.
The First World War is ending, and then there is a popular uprising in March 1919, when the eldest son Fahmy joins the nationalist cause.
Recorded entirely in Cairo.
Old Kamal …… Omar Sharif
Young Kamal …… Karim Fouda
Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab …… Ihab Sakkout
Amina …… Caroline Khalil
Fahmy …… Mena Reda
Yasin …… Tamer Nasrat
Miriam …… Ola RoshdyMusic by Sacha Puttnam; producer/director John Dryden.
I’ll try to record them and post them for iPod enjoyment.
Update: 68MB MP3 file available here. Not great quality, unfortunately. Min babak?
Categories: Culture, Egypt.
Thanks Issandr(and Marwa of course) , i would have missed it otherwise!
The first part of the series which is currently on BBC Radio 4’s website will be on until Saturday. Part 2 will be airing as of Sunday.
Thanks Issander!
nice one, thanks.
if only it was all in arabic :((
Thank you so much.