Biographies: Saad Nadim - Editor

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Saad El Nadim was born on the 17th of February, 1920 in the neighborhood of Boulaq, an old poor neighborhood in Cairo. He was named after the great Egyptian leader Saad Zaghloul. After spending his childhood in that neighborhood, the large family (him and nine other brothers and sisters) moved to Hadaeq Al Kobba where he continued his education. He left the Law school to work with his cousin, the great director Salah Abu Seif, as a movie editor. He started as an assistant and moved up to be a talented editor at Studio Misr. Sharing Realism as a tendency with his cousin, he wanted to make documentaries, and he did. From big cities, industries to minor ethnicities and military he barely left an untreated subject in his documentaries. The year 1950 is a milestone in his career, he met the godfather of documentaries, John Gregerson who taught him in a year and half documentaries' basics. He returned to Egypt two years after the revolution in 1952, to join the newly established cinematic department at the ministry of culture.

• 23 December 2013
• Ahmed Refaat