A Girl Named Mahmoud (1975)

1h 50m
Running Time

January 2, 1975
Release Date

A Girl Named Mahmoud (1975)

1h 50m
Running Time

January 2, 1975
Release Date

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Plot.

Hamida dreams of studying at the faculty of commerce and live her life like any ordinary girl, but her narrow minded father wants her to stay at home and wait for her future husband. With the help of her boyfriend Hassan, who is a medical student he arranges for her to disguise herself as a man after lying to her father that his daughter had undergone a procedure and became a male.

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Release Date
January 2, 1975

Original Name
بنت اسمها محمود

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 50m

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A Girl Named Mahmoud (Arabic: بنت اسمها محمود; Bint Ismaha Maĥmood) is a 1975 Egyptian comedy film directed by Niasi Mustafa.

Samar Habib, author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations, wrote that the film "exploits the genre of transvestism as comedy" and that "several homoerotic images can be presented safely and innocently to mainstream audiences" through a female character pretending to be a male. She explained that because no characters consciously desire those of the same sex and because Ĥamida is still a woman, the film puts the audience "at ease". Habib added that "the question of [whether homoeroticism is forbidden in religion] does not surface so much as the issues of cultural belief, perhaps because the two can sometimes be interchangeable."

Habib concluded that the film does not successfully thoroughly examine homoerotic desire and that the film "attempts to rationalize homosexuality as a form of transgenderism (women who desire other women must be essentially men)".

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