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- 1 2 Terri Ginsberg; Chris Lippard (11 March 2010). Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema. Scarecrow Press. p. 25. ISBN 978-0-8108-7364-3.
- 1 2 3 4 5 Daily Star. Film history faces destruction again
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- ↑ Aruna Vasudev; Latika Padgaonkar; Rashmi Doraiswamy (2002). Being & becoming, the cinemas of Asia. Macmillan. p. 530. ISBN 978-0-333-93820-1.
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