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'Souad' Review: Religious Conservatism Clashes With Social Media in Egyptian Drama 'Souad' Review: Religious Conservatism Clashes With Social Media in Egyptian Drama A vibrant young woman north of Cairo is trapped between conflicting modes of comportment, with religion on one side and social media on the other. Jay Weissberg, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Director: Ayten Amin With: Bassant Ahmed, Basmala Elghaiesh, Hussein Ghanem, Hager Mahmoud, Sarah Shedid, Carol Ackad, Mona Elnamoury, Islam Shalaby, Nayera El Dahshoury. (Arabic dialogue) Running time: Running time: 98 MIN. Courtesy of ...
(The article continues below - Commercial information) Up to now, few Egyptian features have received quite this kind of major festival spotlight, and beyond Amin’s engaging filmmaking style and flair with actors (most of the cast members are non-professionals), Souad unveils a whole world as well as, crucially, a young female-centered perspective that are worth discovering for the first time. That world is of course rife with the challenges of being a young woman in a majority Islamic country, but it is also subjected to the distorting effects of social media, a topic examined in great da...