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Youssef Chahine appears as himself at the beginning of the film, as a director.
At the beginning of the film, Yehia mentions Madame Mohsena Tawfiq in the extras scene, which is most likely the final scene in Al-3osfoor.
Yehia and Andrew the driver exchange a line from Hamlet: "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.".
Yehia's home phone number in Cairo: 816196.
Yehia’s Mother gave birth when she was 18.
Yehia’s Sister was married off when she was 18.
Yehia’s Mother married at 16, to a husband 30 years older than her.
Archival footage from the Cannes Film Festival, featuring several international artists, around the time Ibn Al-Niel was entered in the festival in the early 1950s.
Mahdy says Hamlet's line, "There are more things in heaven and earth," and adds that they blow the mind.
The film ends with a title card reading "The Beginning" instead of "The End.".
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