And people heard the call and responded to it, and as ever it was state brutality that fanned the flames. There was the sense that this was an opportunity that we either take or don’t. When the square was forcibly evicted that night the real question was, tomorrow, would people continue? ‘Can they keep it? Can they keep it?’ That was the question. Khalid Abdalla: I remember when I got the news that happened. VICE: When you returned to Egypt from England in 2011, at the height of the uprising, were you conscious at that time that you were about to participate in a revolution? The downtown area was nearly deserted save for small groups of pro-government demonstrators. Earlier that day, four bomb blasts killed six people. It was a dark moment in the long arc of Egypt’s uprising. Last Days tells a story that roughly echoes Khalid’s own life: It’s the tale of a documentarian who is trying to make a film about his city, Cairo, and according to Khalid, “a group of friends of his from Iraq and Lebanon come to visit and spend nights out talking to each other about their cities and growing up in instability and living and creating art in those circumstances.”īorn in Scottland and educated at Cambridge, Khalid quickly became a succesful actor, with roles in United 93 and Green Zone. He divided his time between Egypt and London, but when his native country erupted in an uprising against dictator Hosni Mubarak in 2011, he returned to Cairo and formed a media company called Mosireen, which he’s used to document the ups and downs of the Egyptian revolution from the front lines.Ī few weeks ago, on the eve of the third anniversary of the revolt against Mubarak, I headed to downtown Cairo to speak with Khalid about his films and his activism.
His new film, In the Last Days of the City, is going to be even better. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.Egyptian actor Khalid Abdalla is one of the chief protagonists in the documentary The Square, which was nominated earlier this month for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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The section "Biography" of this page contains content from the copyrighted Wikipedia article " Khalid Abdalla" that content is used under the GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL). Three months after it began, Mosireen became the most watched non-profit YouTube channel in Egypt of all time, and in the whole world in January 2012. In 2011 Abdalla became one of the founding members of the Mosireen Collective in Cairo: a group of revolutionary filmmakers and activists dedicated to supporting citizen media across Egypt in the wake of Mubarak's fall. Abdalla appears as himself in Jehane Noujaim's documentary on the ongoing Egyptian revolution, "The Square", which won the Audience Award at Sundance Festival in 2013.Ībdalla is on the board of the National Student Drama Festival. He starred as Amir in the film of The Kite Runner and acted with Matt Damon in Green Zone, his second film with director Paul Greengrass. Abdalla played Ziad Jarrah, the pilot and leader of the four hijackers on board the flight. Written and directed by Paul Greengrass, it chronicles events aboard United Airlines Flight 93, which was hijacked as part of the September 11 attacks. He came to international prominence after starring in the 2006 Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning film, United 93.
Khalid Abdalla (Arabic: خالد عبد الله, Khālid ‘Abd Allāh born 26 October 1981) is a British Egyptian actor and activist.
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