The train station is a fascinating place, unlike any other transportation hub. There’s a certain casualness and freneticism ...

Chahine's film Cairo Station was the first Arab and the first African film to be submitted for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film (1958).

This was the breakthrough film of the late great Egyptian director. Chahine plays the leading role (excellently) himself of a simple-minded news vendor in Cairo’s busy main railway station ...