Zaynab (film)

{{short description|1930 film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = Zaynab

| image = Bahiga Hafez in ‘Zeinab’ 1930.jpg

| caption = Film poster

| director = Mohammed Karim

| producer = Youssef Wahbi

| writer = Mohamed Hussein Heikal

| starring = Bahiga Hafez
Zaki Rostom

| studio = Ramses Film

| distributor =

| cinematography = Mohamed Abdelazim
Hassan Murad
Gaston Madre

| editing = Mohammed Karim

| music = Bahiga Hafez

| released = {{Film date|df=yes|1930|04|09|Egypt}}

| runtime = 110 minutes

| country = Egypt

| language = Egyptian Arabic

| budget =

| gross =

}}

Zaynab is a 1930 Egyptian silent film directed by Mohammed Karim.{{Cite book |last=Abdelfattah |first=Heba Arafa |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3366/jj.9941254 |title=Filming Modernity and Islam in Colonial Egypt |date=2023 |publisher=Edinburgh University Press |isbn=978-1-3995-2075-1 |jstor=10.3366/jj.9941254 }}{{Cite book |last=Leaman |first=Oliver |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X6-EAgAAQBAJ&dq=zaynab+%281930%29&pg=PT59 |title=Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film |date=2003-12-16 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-66251-7 |language=en}} It is based on the 1913 novel under the same name by Mohammed Hussein Heikal.{{Cite book |last=Shafik |first=Viola |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MSPTF7wPv_QC&dq=zaynab+%281930%29&pg=PA132 |title=Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity |date=2007 |publisher=American Univ in Cairo Press |isbn=978-977-416-065-3 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last1=Vitali |first1=Valentina |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Wmr8DwAAQBAJ&dq=zaynab+%281930%29&pg=PT399 |title=Theorising National Cinema |last2=Willemen |first2=Paul |date=2019-07-25 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-83902-083-4 |language=en}} The film stars Bahiga Hafez and Zaki Rostom.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DDPZEAAAQBAJ&dq=zaynab+%281930%29&pg=PA236 |title=The Arab Nahda as Popular Entertainment: Mass Culture and Modernity in the Middle East |date=2023-11-16 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-0-7556-4741-5 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Brugman |first=J. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1vavqjJ0uwoC&dq=zaynab+%281930%29&pg=PA240 |title=An Introduction to the History of Modern Arabic Literature in Egypt: By J. Brugman |date=1984 |publisher=BRILL |isbn=978-90-04-07172-8 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Dina Al Mahdy |date=7 April 2020 |title=The golden age of Egyptian cinema |url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1209/366778/AlAhram-Weekly/Focus/The-golden-age-of--Egyptian-cinema-.aspx}}