{"id":1210,"date":"2017-05-03T10:35:39","date_gmt":"2017-05-03T09:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/?p=1210"},"modified":"2017-08-08T19:28:34","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T18:28:34","slug":"auditory-hallucinations-agoraphobia-and-extremism-as-portrayed-by-actor-ahmed-magdy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2017\/05\/03\/auditory-hallucinations-agoraphobia-and-extremism-as-portrayed-by-actor-ahmed-magdy\/","title":{"rendered":"Auditory Hallucinations, Agoraphobia and Extremism as Portrayed by Actor Ahmed Magdy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>In this podcast,\u00a0our Screening Room editor, Khalid Ali, explores the role of film in shining a light on mental illlness, dysfunctional families, and the rise of religious fanaticism with Egyptian director <a href=\"http:\/\/m.imdb.com\/name\/nm5381894\/?ref_=m_tt_cl_i4\">Ahmed Magdy<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Auditory hallucinations, agoraphobia and extremism as portrayed by actor Ahemed Magdy by BMJ talk medicine\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F319733695&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=960&#038;maxwidth=640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Recently introduced to acting, Ahmed talks about his portrayal of three challenging characters: a young man imprisoned in his mother&#8217;s house in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/m.imdb.com\/title\/tt4796556\/\">Gate of Departure <\/a>(<\/em>Karim Hanafy, 2014), an extremist who converts from Islam to Christianity in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/review\/preacher-955026\"><em>The Preacher (Mawlana)\u00a0<\/em><\/a>(Magdi Ahmed Ali, 2016), and a man troubled with persistent auditory hallucinations and a legacy of inherited mental illness in <a href=\"http:\/\/variety.com\/2016\/film\/reviews\/ali-the-goat-and-ibrahim-review-1201948436\/\"><em>Ali, the Goat and Ibrahim <\/em><\/a>(Sherif El Bendary, 2016).<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Ahmed Magdy studied Law in Ain Shams University, but pursued his passion for film by taking part in\u00a0Egypt&#8217;s independent cinema scene since 2008.\u00a0He produced and directed a couple of independent films, and directed his own short, <a href=\"http:\/\/arabicshortfilms.blogspot.co.uk\/2011\/03\/cream-cake-ahmed-magdy.html\"><em>Caika Bel Crema<\/em><\/a> (<em>A Cream Cake<\/em>, 2008).<\/div>\n<p><!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this podcast,\u00a0our Screening Room editor, Khalid Ali, explores the role of film in shining a light on mental illlness, dysfunctional families, and the rise of religious fanaticism with Egyptian director Ahmed Magdy. Recently introduced to acting, Ahmed talks about his portrayal of three challenging characters: a young man imprisoned in his mother&#8217;s house in [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/2017\/05\/03\/auditory-hallucinations-agoraphobia-and-extremism-as-portrayed-by-actor-ahmed-magdy\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":78,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-film"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/78"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/medical-humanities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}