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Egypt's Top Movie Critic Youssef Cherif Rizkallah Dies

Diaa Bekheet

   WASHINGTON - Egypt's legendary movie critic and film historian
   [1]Youssef Cherif Rizkallah, the man who helped popularize Hollywood
   movie reviews on Egyptian and Middle East televisions, died Friday.

   His death comes two days after revealing he had kidney problems. He was
   76.

   The famed broadcast journalist, best known as Egypt's mobile movie
   encyclopedia, was an invaluable film resource for Arab media. He wrote
   thousands of movie reviews for Egyptian and Arab newspapers, magazines,
   radio and TV shows.

References

   1. (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4970826/)

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