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 "id": "screen/al-muhajir-1994",
 "class": "screen",
 "slug": "al-muhajir-1994",
 "label": {
  "en": "The Emigrant",
  "ar": "المهاجر"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "فيلم يوسف شاهين المستوحى من قصة يوسف في مصر القديمة؛ أثار معركة قضائية وإعلامية في مصر حول تصوير أنبياء القرآن على الشاشة، فجُرّد بطلُه من الاسم القرآني.",
  "en": "Youssef Chahine's retelling of the Joseph story set in ancient Egypt; its release sparked a legal battle in Egypt over depicting Qur'anic prophets on screen."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "prophets",
  "dissent-heresy-freethought"
 ],
 "data": {
  "format": "film",
  "relevance": "substantial",
  "titles": [
   {
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "المهاجر",
    "kind": "original"
   },
   {
    "lang": "fr",
    "value": "L'Émigré",
    "kind": "release"
   },
   {
    "lang": "en",
    "value": "The Emigrant",
    "kind": "release"
   }
  ],
  "released": {
   "edtf": "1994",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "countries": [
   "eg",
   "fr"
  ],
  "languages": {
   "original": [
    "ar"
   ]
  },
  "depiction": {
   "prophet": "not-applicable",
   "companions": "not-applicable",
   "imams": "not-applicable",
   "note": "The hero is named Ram, not Joseph — the film was made after the Prophet-depiction controversy it generated."
  },
  "approach": "historical-drama",
  "sensitivity": "contested",
  "reception": [
   {
    "kind": "ban",
    "where": [
     "eg"
    ],
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "A court order suspended Egyptian screenings; Chahine contested it, and the ban was later lifted on appeal.",
    "sources": []
   }
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q3205314",
   "imdb": "tt0110545"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata",
   "source/imdb"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), screen-index lane; existence, year and identifiers verified against Wikidata and IMDb, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "«المهاجر» فيلم درامي تاريخي صدر سنة 1994 من إنتاج مصر وفرنسا، من إخراج [[person/youssef-chahine|يوسف شاهين]]. ومن أبرز ممثليه [[person/khaled-el-nabawy|خالد النبوي]]، و[[person/michel-piccoli|ميشيل بيكولي]]، و[[person/mahmoud-hemida|محمود حميدة]]، و[[person/yousra|يسرا]]، و[[person/safia-el-emari|صفية العمري]]. فيلم يوسف شاهين المستوحى من قصة يوسف في مصر القديمة؛ أثار معركة قضائية وإعلامية في مصر حول تصوير أنبياء القرآن على الشاشة، فجُرّد بطلُه من الاسم القرآني. {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "السياق والاستقبال",
     "markdown": "مُنع عرضه في مصر. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/al-muhajir-1994",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-16"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "\"Al-Muhajir\" is a historical drama film released in 1994, produced in Egypt and France, directed by [[person/youssef-chahine|Youssef Chahine]]. Its leading performers include [[person/khaled-el-nabawy|Khaled El Nabawy]], [[person/michel-piccoli|Michel Piccoli]], [[person/mahmoud-hemida|Mahmoud Hemida]], [[person/yousra|Yousra]] and [[person/safia-el-emari|Safia El Emary]]. Youssef Chahine's film inspired by the story of Joseph in ancient Egypt; it provoked a legal and media battle in Egypt over the depiction of the prophets of the Qur'an on screen, and its hero was stripped of his Qur'anic name. {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Context and reception",
     "markdown": "It was banned in Egypt. {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/al-muhajir-1994",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "خلاصہ",
     "markdown": "«المہاجر» ایک تاریخی ڈرامائی فلم ہے جو 1994ء میں مصر اور فرانس میں بنی، جسے [[person/youssef-chahine|یوسف شاہین]] نے ڈائریکٹ کیا۔ اس کے نمایاں اداکاروں میں [[person/khaled-el-nabawy|خالد النبوی]]، [[person/michel-piccoli|میشل پیکولی]]، [[person/mahmoud-hemida|محمود حمیدہ]]، [[person/yousra|یسری]] اور [[person/safia-el-emari|صفیہ العمری]] شامل ہیں۔ یوسف شاہین کی فلم جو قدیم مصر میں یوسف کی کہانی سے متاثر ہے؛ قرآنی انبیاء کی اسکرین پر تصویر کشی کے بارے میں مصر میں عدالتی اور میڈیا جنگ کا سبب بنی، جس کے نتیجے میں اس کے ہیرو کو قرآنی نام سے محروم کیا گیا۔ {cite:wikidata} {cite:imdb}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "سیاق اور استقبال",
     "markdown": "مصر میں اس کی نمائش پر پابندی لگی۔ {cite:wikidata}"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "screen/al-muhajir-1994",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-17"
  }
 },
 "degree": 16,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-16",
 "connections": [
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   "to": "person/khaled-el-nabawy",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/michel-piccoli",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mahmoud-hemida",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/yousra",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/safia-el-emari",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/youssef-chahine",
   "type": "directed_by",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/youssef-chahine",
   "type": "written_by",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/khaled-youssef",
   "type": "written_by",
   "inverse": false
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "screen/al-massir-1997",
  "place/alexandria",
  "place/cairo",
  "screen/al-nasir-salah-al-din-1963",
  "event/musaylima-claims-prophethood",
  "person/youssef-chahine",
  "concept/abraham-and-the-one-who-argued",
  "concept/al-amin"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}