Ahmed Mourad
Writing
Biography
An Egyptian writer, novelist, professional photographer , and screenwriter. He studied at The High Institute for Cinema. He achieved a bachelor's degree and was listed as the first among other students. His graduation films achieved many awards in European festivals. His films are Alhaúmon, And On The Seventh Day, and The Three Papers. He started his writing career in 2007 by publishing his first novel, Vertigo. Vertigo received critical and commercial success throughout all of Egypt and was translated into English, French, and Italian. It was also made into a television series starring actress Hend Sabri in 2012. Ahmed Mourad with "VERTIGO" has won the Award for The Mediterranean Culture Award of 2013 in fiction section.. The award ceremony was held Friday, October 4, 2013 at 17:30 at the Teatro "Rendano" of Cosenza.. Italy The success of Vertigo led Mourad to publish his second work, Diamond Dust, in 2010, which was translated into the Italian language and received generally positive reviews. He later published The Blue Elephant in 2012, his most successful novel and the best-selling novel in Egypt which was listed for the Arabic Booker Prize 2012. The novel has received unanimous positive reviews and is being turned into a theatrical film directed by Marwan Hamed, the director of The Yacoubian Building. It stars Karim Abdel Aziz as Yehia, the main protagonist and the narrator of the novel. The film was released on 27 July after the end of Ramadan in 2014 before midnight by two hours and received highly positive reviews, and is Egypt's most successful movie in reviews, with lots of people saying the movie makes the Egyptian Cinema move at a higher rank. The next novel is 1919, based on the Egyptian revolution of the same year. Although it was a commercial successes, the novel received mixed reviews unlike its predecessors. His latest novel The land of god was released in March 2016 He is the screenwriter of The Originals (Arabic: الأصليين), also directed by Marwan Hamed. Mourad was initially going to write it as a novel before he decided to make it as a theatrical film. The film was released on June 25, 2017 across Egypt to a mixed critical reception from audiences and critics alike. It was also screened at Fantastic Fest in the same year
Known For
A Third part of The Blue Elephant Saga.
The Blue Elephant: Part III
Ailing from a sickness that threatens to silence her forever, Umm Kalthoum, the greatest Egyptian singer the world has ever known, takes to the stage one final time for her most important performance yet, one with the potential to heal a nation broken by the shadow of a great defeat. As she slowly steps onto the stage to deafening chants and applause, fearful for her health and country, a legend finds herself walking down memory lane, reminiscing on her humble beginnings and the seven decade journey of triumphs, failures, defying social conventions, and loves lost that followed.
El Sett
Al Bernameg is a popular Egyptian satirical program. The series is hosted by satirical comedian Bassem Youssef on the satellite channel CBC. The press has compared it to The Daily Show hosted by Jon Stewart, which was the inspiration for this show. Youssef visited The Daily Show as a guest in April 2013, while Stewart, on hiatus from his own hosting duties, returned the favor on El Bernameg in June 2013.
Al Bernameg
Taha works as a pharmacist and lives a normal life with his disabled father. When a mysterious murder occurs, Taha's world changes forever. He starts tracking down many secrets that leads him to unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!
Diamond Dust
The movie focuses on the fury state that was among the people in synchronization with the main event in Egypt: The 1919 Egyptian Revolution which unites the fates of Kira and El Gen to participate in the struggle against the British occupation.
Kira & El Gen
Farida, a photographer, goes to a hotel to meet her friend and husband, who works at the hotel's Vertigo bar. She finds herself the only witness to the murder of two businessmen and their guards, as well as the lives of her close friends.
Vertigo
As Reem celebrates her birthday, she receives a box containing strange and incomprehensible contents, and messages asking to save a person before he is killed, leading the three friends, Youssef, Reem and Yassin on an adventure to uncover the mystery of this box.
Mystery Box
After a five-year hiatus, psychiatrist Yehia returns to work at Abbasiya Hospital. He’s assigned to evaluate a patient who turns out to be his old friend. As events unfold, Yehia uncovers dark secrets that challenge his understanding of reality.
The Blue Elephant
A meeting with a new inmate in the psychiatric hospital flips Dr. Yehia's life upside down. She prophecies that the death of his entire family is only three days away.
The Blue Elephant 2
Samir is the head of a small family and a bank employee and stable in his work, but separated after the decision to reduce the employment and then surprise that his bank balance zero and after days find a box with a mobile phone to meet a call changed his life by recruiting him to spy on people through an organization called The Originals.
The Originals
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Untitled Mohamed Ramadan /Ahmed Mourad /Hany Abu-Assad Movie
It deals with the life of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, and the story of the discovery of the amazing secrets of his tomb
The Last Pharaoh
Based on Noval by Ahmed Mourad