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purely official censorship in which there is no popular representation, such as there is in most western countries. The State itself provides for safeguarding moral and religious principles.
A fee of 4% of the potential and actual amount of customs duties is charged for the revision of films.
Art. 4 of the ministerial decree cited lays down particular conditions for the censoring of imported films. If permission to exhibit a film is refused, all customs duties charged on the film (which until deposited with the Ministry of the Interior is considered as introduced temporarily) are returned, together with one half of the supplementary tax of 4%.
General principles of censorship : The main purpose of film censorship in Egypt is to safeguard public and private morality and to ban all that might incite, encourage, or exalt crime and vice, or that might, on the other hand, offend public feeling.
From such a very generic principle it would clearly not be possible to deduce a precise and concrete statement of the various reasons which the public censorship officials may adduce for prohibiting the exhibition of films or for requiring emendations and excisions. Such a schedule has, however, been formed in practice and, though not embodied in a a definite regulation, it offers a compendium, of indications of the highest interest.
Special criteria of Censorship :
a) Religion. — The highest respect of all religious principles and especially those of Islamism. It is forbidden to endeavour to represent the Deity in a concrete form or to show the images of the prophets on the screen.
Religious and especially Moslem ceremonies and rites must be shown, if at all, in the most decorous and respectful manner. In all cases it is absolutely prohibited to show any thing that might rouse in the spectator a feeling of contempt or of irreverence towards religion.
For this reaons, it is not allowed to present events or deeds derived from the Koran or the Gospels, which might offend the feelings of any part of the audience. It is likewise not allowed to reproduce in comic scenes, or with the object of creating by contrast a sense of the comical, texts from Holy Writ, more particularly from the Koran, the El Ahadiss or the Uabawia.
b) Political. — For reasons of domestic policy, it is prohibited to exhibit scenes of a revolutionary character or contrary to monarchic principles; and in general all scenes that are likely, in any way, to disturb the present social organization or to provoke disaffection or rebellion. It is likewise most strictly prohibited to show in an unfavourable light per
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