What is Samir Farid?
[[Image:Samir Farid.jpg|thumb|Samir Farid]] '''Samir Farid''' ({{lang-ar|سمير فريد}}) (December 1, 1943 – April 4, 2017) was an Egyptian writer, [[movie critic]], journalist and movie historian. He was born in [[Cairo]], [[Egypt]]. He authored and translated over 60 books since 1966 on Egyptian, Arab and World cinema. He was the consultant for Cinema affairs in the [[Bibliotheca Alexandrina]] (2001-2016). He was a member of jury in International film festivals since 1972. (Among them [[Oberhausen Film Festival]] 1978, [[Dok Leipzig|DOC Leipzig Film festival]] 1984, [[Annecy International Animated Film Festival]] 1998, [[Torino Film Festival]] 2001, Controcorrente (Upstream section) of [[Venice Film Festival]] 2003,<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://variety.com/2003/film/markets-festivals/hep-hit-venice-highlight-1117890846/|title=Hep hit Venice highlight|last=Jennings|first=Sheri|date=2003-08-14|newspaper=Variety|language=en-US|access-date=2017-01-19}}</ref> [[Thessaloniki Film Festival]] 2003 and [[Taormina Film Festival]] 2010.) He also was the Head of The [[Cairo International Film Festival]] 2014. Farid died on April 4, 2017 in Cairo from a long-illness at the age of 73.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/32/262299/Arts--Culture/Film/Renowned-Egyptian-film-critic,-writer-and-film-his.aspx |title=Renowned Egyptian film critic, writer and film historian Samir Farid dies |access-date=2017-04-04 |archive-date=2017-04-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406232227/http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/32/262299/Arts--Culture/Film/Renowned-Egyptian-film-critic,-writer-and-film-his.aspx |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Related pages== *[[List of historians by continent]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Farid, Samir}} [[Category:1943 births]] [[Category:2017 deaths]] [[Category:Egyptian journalists]] [[Category:Movie critics]] [[Category:Historians]] [[Category:Writers from Cairo]] {{bio-stub}}