The book contains condensed and brief facts to provide both readers and researchers information about Egyptian cinema during the XXe century until year 2000. The book presents a panorama of achievements and defeats which occured in a whole century, relating these facts to what is happening nowadays in the motherland. Author "Ali Abou Shadi" deals through his book with Egyptian cinema taking its first steps in 1896, starting from the silent cinema and the first motion-picture movie, to the talking movies, not to forget directors and producers. Abou Shadi relied in his book on several resources and references.