Year Title (English translation) Honours 1979 Qatrat ma' (Drop of Water) Best Short Film at the Alexandria Film Festival; Prize of Saad Nadin at the Egyptian Documentary Film Festival in 1980 1981 Burtreh (Portrait) Dahsha (Surprise) 1982 Hayy al - Daher (Daher District) Al Rukham (Marble) 1991 Shahatin wa Nubala (Beggars and Nobles) Critics Prize, International Confederation of Art Cinemas (CICAE) prize, and Audience Grand Prize, Montpellier; Audience Prize, Freiburg 1992; Grand Prix of the International Jury in Rennes, 1992) 1995 Mathaf al Iskandariya (Museum of Alexandria) 1998 Kunchirtu fi darb sa'ada (Concert in the Street of Happiness) 2001 Al Fatimiyun (The Fatimids) 2003 Al Alyubiyun (The Ayubbids) 2004 Al Unf wa al sukhriya (Violence and Derision)[9]