The Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz 3 Radio episode

Friday Play / ex Classic Serial

Naguib Mahfouz

The Cairo Trilogy

Epic family saga set in Egypt under colonial rule from Naguib Mahfouz.
Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon from the novels of Nobel Prize-winning author Naguib Mahfouz the drama was recorded on the
streets of Cairo.

Music by Sacha Puttnam
Dramatised by Ayeesha Menon
Producer/Director: John Dryden
A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4.

Three episodes of app 58 mins each, cut into halves by me.
Broadcast 18 and 25 Mar 2011 and 1 Apr 2011 @ 21:00 on BBC Radio 4

Radiolistings says:
Originally a Classic Serial, it was repeated as a Friday Play.
First broadcast on 20061015, 20061022, 20061029 respectively.
The BBC announcements called it a repeat indirectly, but this info is not provided by the BBC itself.

Episode 1
1/3. Epic family saga set in Egypt under colonial rule from Naguib Mahfouz.

This episode begins at the end of the First World War and culminates in a popular uprising in March 1919 when the eldest
son Fahmy joins the nationalist cause.

Cast:
Old Kamal...........Omar Sharif
Young Kamal.......Karim Fouda
Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab.....Ihab Sakkout
Amina..............Caroline Khalil
Fahmy..............Mena Reda
Yasin................Tamer Nasrat
Miriam..............Ola Roshdy

Other cast members: Rena Malak, Yara Goubran, Zeinab Moubarak, Maryam El Khoshed, Nairy Avedissian, Ekram Zalat, Sherif
Nour, Shirine El Ansari, Salah Fahmy, Yeve Youssef, Sedky Sakhar, Dina Nadim, Ahmed Nour, Saymaa Shalan, Radwa Elgabry,
Mika Thabet, Hany Seef, Hugh Sowden.

Episode 2
2/3. Epic family saga set in Egypt under colonial rule from Naguib Mahfouz.

This episode begins is the late 1920s with Egypt nominally independent but still under British influence, and ends in the
mid 1930s with an outbreak of typhoid which has a tragic effect on the family.

Cast:
Old Kamal......Omar Sharif
Kamal............Amr Waked
Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab...Ihab Sakkout
Aida...............Shirine El Ansari
Zanuba...........Maryam El Khoshed
Zubayda..........Zeinab Moubarak
Yasin..............Tamer Nasrat

Other cast members: Rena Malak, Caroline Khalil, Yara Goubran, Ola Roshdy, Nairy Avedissian, Ekram Zalat, Sherif Nour,
Salah Fahmy, Yeve Youssef, Sedky Sakhar, Dina Nadim, Ahmed Nour, Saymaa Shalan, Radwa Elgabry, Mika Thabet, Hany Seef, Hugh Sowden.

Episode 3
3/3. The final part of Naguib Mahfouz's masterpiece, recorded on the streets of Cairo.

This episode begins in the 1940s with the Second World War in progress. It has a devastating effect on the family business
and one of the grandchildren is sucked into a newly emerging radical Islamist movement.

Cast:
Old Kamal............Omar Sharif
Kamal..................Amr Waked
Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawab....Ihab Sakkout
Ahmad................Sedky Sakhar
Munim.................Ahmed Nour
Sawsan...............Dina Nadim
Badur..................Radwa Elgabry

Other cast members: Tamer Nasrat, Rena Malak, Caroline Khalil, Yara Goubran, Zeinab Moubarak, Ola Roshdy, Nairy Avedissian,
Ekram Zalat, Sherif Nour, Salah Fahmy, Yeve Youssef, Sedky Sakhar, Dina Nadim , Saymaa Shalan, Radwa Elgabry, Mika Thabet,
Hany Seef, Hugh Sowden.