Atef Salem (; 23 July 1927 – 30 July 2002) was an Egyptian

film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...

. He directed 32 films between 1954 and 2001. Many of his films were scripted by the novelist

Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through wo ...

. His 1967 film '' Khan el khalili'' was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.

Selected filmography

* '' Woman's Secret'' (1960) * '' Mother of the Bride'' (1963) * '' The Mamelukes'' (1965) * '' A Wife from Paris'' (1966) * '' Khan el khalili'' (1967) * '' Where Is My Mind?'' (1974) * ''Edge of the Sword'' (1986)

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* 1927 births 2002 deaths Egyptian film directors {{Egypt-film-director-stub