The Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine, who died last Sunday at the age of 82, will be remembered both as one of Arab cinema's great auteurs and as a brave man who always sided with the oppressed, writes Hani Mustafa

A shorthand guide to Youssef Chahine's films with extracts from 30 years of interviews with the great Egyptian filmmaker, by Samir Farid

In his later years Youssef Chahine enjoyed stalwart support from France, drawing attention to the Franco-Egyptian thread in his later films and his cosmopolitan sympathies, writes David Tresilian in Paris

By Mursi Saad El-Din