Review of Three Studies of Egyptian Cinema: Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Modernity from Reel to Real; The National Imaginarium: A History of Egyptian Filmmaking; Making Film in Egypt: How Labor, Technology, and Mediation Shape the Industry

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Nezar Alsayyad And Heba Safey Eldeen, eds., Cinematic Cairo: Egyptian Modernity from Reel to Real (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2022). xxxiii + 288pp., £49.95 hardcover. ISBN 978-1-64903-133-4.