Farouq Abdul-Aziz 100 pictures

Farouq Abul-Aziz (born on July 24, 1946 at El-Mahalla El-Kubra, in the heartland of Egypt's Nile Delta) is a well known TV presenter, interviewer, writer, producer and director in the Arab World. Debuting his career in his native country; Egypt in 1966 as an academic arts and film critic on radio and arts and in the press, Farouq's cultural track ...

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In Kuwait with the once highly politically charged Italian filmmaker Gilo Pontecorvo best known for his 'Battle of Algiers' and 'Burn' (featuring Brando). He was Farouq's Cine-Club guest in 1987
Interviewing Salah Abu Saif, a pioneer of Realism in the Egyptian Cinema. He had been Farouq's guest in his show in 1979
Vanessa's daughter Natasha Richardson, the then aspiring actress, was interviewed for 'Vanessa ...' in summer of 1978
Interviewing India's film star Shashi Kapoor at the Puna Film Institute in India in April 1986
Bucaille had examined scientific signs in the Scriptures as shown in 'Microcosm...' 2010
Taking the stairs in the Cinema house where Vanessa's documentary 'The Palestinian' was premiered in Kuwait in 1979 - Vanessa put on the same Oscar dress!
With Soviet actress Vera Alintova star of 'Moscow Does Not Believe in Tears' the BFF Oscar winner of 1980. Alintova was Farouq's Cine-Club guest in 1981
Foreign labor in Kuwait is the central theme of 'Barirah' (2007) documentary
A portrait of Farouq by artist A. Ghanim used as one element in the cover design of the 'Love in Exile' presentation in 1997
Farouq had been busy for a good part of the 80s writing about film in both Arabic and English
Welcoming Vanessa on her 2nd visit to Kuwait in 1982
Lining up a shot for a KFM commercial
Lining up a panoramic shot of Istanbul with DP Michael Miles on 'Merhaba' location in 1987
Presenting 'Baraka' in a private screening to a multi-cultural audience at Kuwait's Maidan Cultural Center in 2005
With the celebrated Dean of the White House correspondents Helen Thomas at her place in Washington DC for Farouq's in-production documentary slated for release in 2012
Talking on camera for 'Vanessa Talks with Farouk...'
Producer Director Mustapha Akkad interviewed for the documentary
Artwork produced for a 'Maurice & the Pharaoh' flyer 2010
Working on another Hardee's commercial flanked by an all British crew in 1993
Father Ramses II and son-successor Mernpetah were closely scrutinized by Bucaille in Cairo and Paris for well over two years
With another classic Egyptian filmmaker A. Kamel Morsey around 1978
Award winner Hildyard showed me around the Roman set his lighting scheme
With Youssef Chahine the renowned Egyptian filmmaker in 1978
Talking heads - Gulf actor G. Saleh and Farouq on location for the Hardee's commercial in 1992
Working with Congressman and writer Paul Findley in Dubai on a new documentary to be released in 2012
The Quinn 'Lion...' interview had marked the beginning of a long liaison with the acclaimed actor
Farouq's first Cairo TV interview in 1975
Cover of the booklet given away at the 'Merhaba' night in Feb. 1988
In Washington DC interviewing Presidential runner and famed consumer activist Ralph Nader for Farouq's new political documentary set for a 2012 release
The Cine-Club show around 1984
One artwork for Vanessa's documentary when presented at Ismailia Int'l Film Festival in Egypt in 1995
Shooting the first documentary for the Kuwait Oil Company in 1976
Sharing with Vanessa a fluffy moment between takes
With the ART media mogul Sheikh Saleh Kamel and IIG chaiman Sheikh Salman Al Sabah and former Undersecretay of Kuwait's MOI M. Sanousi sharing ideas on investing in the media in 2001
Farouq on 'Lion...' set in 1979
Sharing a moment with the Arabian Gulf most accomplished actress Sou'ad Abdullah in 1978
Interviewing US Classic filmmaker King Vidor in Moscow 1979
A stroll in the park for a breather before resumption of work on 'Vanessa Talks...'
On Cine-Club set sometime in 1982
DP Michael Miles lighting the miniature set for a Hardee's commercial in 1993
On session with Akkad
Capping an outdoor photo session with Vanessa in London in 1978
Having a break during a Cine-Club recording session in 1982 with director Carl Roberts
Farouq made a Kuwait Tv comeback producing the weekly 'Screen Gems' show for a year
The Cine-Club show earned a huge populrity in Kuwait and its environs in the 80's
Cartoonist M. Hadidi's vision of Farouq shooting in Turkey in 1987
An unofficial photo taken in Oct. 1978 at a restaurnat after a late night interview with Sou'ad Hossny, the Arab World all-time acting diva
Introducing Egypt's prominent filmmaker Shadi Abdussalam in a Cine-Club event in 1983
On location with Director Roy Battersby, DP Chris Menges and Soundman Albert Bailey shooting 'Vanessa...'
At the Workers Revolutionary Party school for 'Vanessa Talks with Farouk...'
Interviewing Tom Luddy of F. F. Coppola's Zoetrope Studios in San Francisco in 1981
With Mark Magidson 'Baraka's producer on location in Kuwait - May 1991
In Tunisia in 1978 interviewing at length Lotfy Khouly, ousted editor-in-chief of Cairo's shut down 'leftist' monthly magazine 'Al Tali'a' where Farouq published articles for 3 years
Interviewing Congressman Paul Findley at home in Jacksonville IL. for the upcoming Abdul-Aziz' documentary to be released in 2012
Being interviewed by an Arab Times staff reporter after the telecast of Farouq's Special Report from San Francisco in 1982
Vanessa wearing the ID of the Int'l Baghdad Film Festival on Palestine in 1978
Interviewing Ramsey Yassa the renown solo pianist for a Kuwait Tv Special produced by Farouq in 1983
Reporting on camera from San Francisco in 1981
The 'Merhaba' art exhibition attracted a big crowd before the screening of the film in Feb. 1988
Farouq and DP Michael Miles on location for a commercial for Kuwait Flour Mills Company in 1995