Sameh Sami (also spelled Samy;سامح سامي is an Egyptian writer,The Official Syndicate of Cinematographic Professions In Egypt held an interview with him about the role of the film magazine, the Jesuit culture and the Egyptian cinema crisis.. He is editor-in-chief of the Cairo Magazine El film, which is concerned with the culture of image and film. It is the only current Egyptian magazine specialized in cinema. He is also the head of the cultural section of the Egyptian newspaperAl ShoroukShorouk News, the editor of the JOSOR program on culture, politics and society on SAT 7 channel SAT-7, and the executive manager at Jesuit cultural center in Cairo.
Views on film
Abla Al Rewiny wrote an article about Sameh Samy and El film magazine :"Some see that cinema is the closest art to literature and some see that it can not be combined between literature and film, the issue of the film magazine about the relationship of films and literature is presented from the angle of the film. In the editor article of the magazine, Sameh Samy sees that "Ibrahim Aslan" Ibrahim Aslan is the best writer of the relationship of literature in cinema.. Aslan's novel "Heron/ malek alhazeen", which turned to the film "Kit kat" by Dawood Abdel-Sayed, a landmark in the relationship literature in cinema, "literature can be a of cinema. Al-Arabi Al-Jadeed newspaper wrote a newspaper file on the work of Sameh Sami and the film magazine:"Despite the years of decline in the film industry in Egypt, it must be realized that it is a retreat in "industry" rather than "art." The decline comes largely on the heads of manufacturers, the logic of how much production compared to the past, and the relationship with the economic and political situation miserable and extended for a long time, the ratio between exchange and revenue, and so on. On the other hand, you are in front of a much better artistic era than in previous eras with respect to individual awareness and remarkable talents at the level of writing, directing, photography, acting and music. The equation was stimulated by what the Egyptian writer Sameh Samy, the editor of the magazine , put forward in his opening article, which quoted the title of the famous book by Ala Deeb as a "pause before the slope", calling on those interested to stand collectively before falling into the slope. Sami talked about crises related to the lack of interest in presenting an idea and does not pay attention to the awareness and expression of people's issues, stressing that there are exceptions".
