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A Sa'idi (Arabic: صعيدي) is a person from Upper Egypt (Arabic: صعيد Sa'id).
The word literally means "from Sa'id" (i.e. Upper Egypt), and can also refer to a form of music originating there, or to the dialect spoken by Sa'idis. The Arabic word Sa'id, as a geographical term, means "highland, upland, plateau". The suffix "-i" denotes the adjective.
Although Upper Egypt has 60 percent of Egypt's land area, it contains only 17 percent of its population. Until the Aswan High Dam was built, Sa'idis were less apt to suffer from waterborne diseases such as bilharzia than Delta peasants.[citation needed]Muhammad Naguib and Gamal Abdel Nasser were of Sa'idi extraction.
Sa'idis and their dialect are the subject of numerous Egyptian ethnic jokes. They are popularly assumed to be rural simpletons, physically stronger and more clever than other Egyptians. An example of such stereotyping is the box office hit Ṣa‘īdi fil-Gama‘a al-Amrikiya ("A Sa'idi in the American University", i.e. the American University in Cairo) (1998) starring Mohamed Henedi, which depicts the Saidi character as a clever and smart capable of joining the American University in Cairo in a government scholarship because he excelled all his colleagues in high school.
Actors: Rita Dominic (actress), Russell Whaley (actor), Razaaq Adoti (actor), Sean Field (actor), Maynard Eziashi (actor), Anca-Ioana Androne (actress), Mary Czerwinski (actress), Shaban Arifi (actor), Siaka Massaquoi (actor), Suresh Sippy (actor), Justin Pierre (actor), Charlotte McMillan (composer), Laurel Krause (actress), Chike Kani Omo (producer), Adeye Sahran (actress),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Edgar Soberón Torchia (actor), Edgar Soberón Torchia (producer), Rocco Melillo (director), Rocco Melillo (producer), Rocco Melillo (writer), Nyra Soberón (actress), Nyra Soberón (producer), Leonardo Guzmán (actor), José Ángel Canto (producer), Oscar Faarup (actor), Karla Quintero (actress), Ramón Serrano (actor), Ivonne De La Rosa (miscellaneous crew), Vielka Chu (actress), Stella Lauri (actress),
Genres: Short,Actors: William Witney (director), William 'Billy' Benedict (actor), John Bleifer (actor), John Bleifer (actor), Tristram Coffin (actor), Ronald Davidson (writer), Norman S. Hall (writer), Robert Barron (actor), John Davidson (actor), Kenne Duncan (actor), George J. Lewis (actor), Charles Middleton (actor), Clayton Moore (actor), Forbes Murray (actor), George Pembroke (actor),
Plot: In this feature-length reediting of the serial 'Perils of Nyoka (1942)', the famed African jungle girl Nyoka competes with an equally resourceful (and white) female nemesis, Vultura, to obtain a set of mysterious tablets of wondrous power.
Keywords: africaActors: Dennis Price (actor), Brian Clemens (writer), Ronald Leigh-Hunt (actor), Richard Gordon (producer), Lindsay Shonteff (director), Michael Nightingale (actor), Barrie Vince (editor), John Witty (actor), Louis Mahoney (actor), Lisa Daniely (actress), Jean Lodge (actress), Beryl Cunningham (actress), Tony Thawnton (actor), Kenneth Rive (producer), Leigh Vance (writer),
Plot: In Africa, a hunter kills a great lion. The animal turns out to be sacred to a local tribe of voodoo worshipers, and when the hunter returns to England, he finds himself seeing strange apparitions involving the lion and murderous jungle warriors.
Keywords: independent-film, lion, voodooActors: Phyllis Calvert (actress), Cyril Raymond (actor), David Horne (actor), Eric Portman (actor), Herbert Smith (producer), George A. Cooper (actor), Cathleen Nesbitt (actress), Thorold Dickinson (director), Thorold Dickinson (writer), Arnold Marlé (actor), Orlando Martins (actor), Alan Jaggs (editor), Robert Adams (actor), Dorothy Broomham (costume designer), Herbert Victor (writer),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Antonio del Amo (writer), Miguel del Castillo (actor), Julio Peña (actor), Nicolás Rodríguez (actor), José María Lado (actor), Andrés Mejuto (actor), Max Aub (writer), Darius Milhaud (composer), André Malraux (editor), André Malraux (writer), André Malraux (writer), André Malraux (director), Roland Tual (producer), Denis Marion (writer), Edouard Corniglion-Molinier (producer),
Plot: 1937, during the spanish civil war, at Teruel. The fight of the Republicans (with very poor means but high commitment) against fascist army of General Franco. Can be seen as romanticized witness of director and writer Andre Malraux, who joined the Republicans in 1936.
Keywords: based-on-novel, civil-warActors: Ray Corrigan (miscellaneous crew), Desmond Roberts (actor), Jack Conway (director), Neil Hamilton (actor), Ray Corrigan (actor), Leon Gordon (writer), Paul Cavanagh (actor), William Stack (actor), Johnny Weissmuller (actor), Yola d'Avril (actress), Maureen O'Sullivan (actress), Forrester Harvey (actor), Paul Porcasi (actor), Edgar Rice Burroughs (writer), James Kevin McGuinness (writer),
Plot: In the first sequel to Tarzan, the Ape Man, Harry Holt returns to Africa to head up a large ivory expedition. This time he brings his womanizing friend Marlin Arlington. Holt also harbors ideas about convincing Jane to return to London. When Holt and Arlington show Jane some of the modern clothes and perfumes they brought from civilization, she is impressed but not enough to return. Tarzan wrestles every wild animal imaginable to protect Jane but when he disallows the expedition from plundering ivory from the elephant burial grounds, it is he who takes a bullet from Arlington's gun. Jane eventually believes that Tarzan is dead but he is nursed back to health by the apes. As Jane and the returning expedition are attacked by violent natives, we wonder if Tarzan can rescue them yet again.
Keywords: africa, attempted-murder, bare-chested-male, character-name-in-title, chimpanzee, crocodile, duplicity, elephant, english, fashion