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We cannot, with all honesty, claim that this black-and-white film is a great piece of art. However, despite its shortcomings, the film is an important link in the history of filming the Shrew and wider Arabic Shakespeare studies. Hasan Shukri Petruchio , an upper-middle-class veterinarian specialist. As a Shakespearean derivative, the plot of Ah Min Hawwa is considerably slimmer.

From its infancy, The Taming of the Shrew has triggered strong responses. What, we might ask, constitutes an unruly woman on the Egyptian screen? For one thing, they are cousins and have been, during their three-year engagement, unsuccessfully trying to match Amira off, since it is customary for the elder sister to marry first.

It is mainly for this reason that Amira must have a grandfather; a father figure consenting to his unmarried daughter living alone with a man would be inconceivable to Arab-Islamic audiences. Indeed, all Arabic Shrew films make this distinction: the sisters in Banat Hawwa have a matriarchal uncle and the shrew in Iztakoza has a matriarchal aunt.

Even when the father is present, he is usually socially disgraced. For example, the father in al-Zawjat al-Sabi'a , who has lost his fortune and accumulated large debts, works as a gigolo in exclusive hotels. A specialist veterinarian has been summoned from Cairo. Hasan Shukri Rushdi Abazah comes with the highest recommendations.

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But she is a girl—that means she is a thorn in my back. Conversely, Amira finds Hasan utterly despicable and totally detestable. Moreover, the doctor-patient relationship gives the couple certain physical freedom that would otherwise be unacceptable in an Arab-Islamic social order. The shrew in Ah Min Hawwa is a sophisticated and complex character.