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desire to die, as if Zainab is a symbol of the youth of Egypt, who were violated, sometimes by oppression in prison, and sometimes by exploiting them in shattered ruins at the hands of the filthy profiteers in despair and absence of reason, and at last in the name of love, where only the debris of pleasure mixed with impurities of oppression and rape remained, in the interpretation of
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any activity or opposition thought within the university walls. It also comes to the arrest of members of
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symbolizes the civilized framework of Egypt, which has been shortened in the modern era to the name of a café owned by one of the retired dancers with ties to politicians in the former era and the era of the revolution alike. The pyramid is under the weight of despair, the absence of reason and the
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The film tells about the state of media blackout pursued by the
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