وجدت أنّ قصّة توغو مزراحي ملحّة جدًّا. كان مزراحي يهوديًّا مصريًّا، جنسيته إيطاليّة. وهو أحد روّاد صناعة الأفلام المصريّة، أسسّ استوديو تصوير وشركة إنتاج في الإسكندريّة في عام 1929.
Deborah Starr
Deborah Starr is a professor of Near Eastern studies and director of the Jewish Studies Program at Cornell University. She writes and teaches about issues of identity and inter-communal exchange in Arabic and Hebrew literature and film, with a focus on the Jews of Egypt. Her new book, Togo Mizrahi and The Making of Egyptian Cinema (University of California Press 2020), recuperates the work of a Jewish a pioneer of Egyptian cinema. She is also the author of Remembering Cosmopolitan Egypt: Literature, Culture, Empire (Routledge 2009) and co-editor with Sasson Somekh of Mongrels or Marvels: The Levantine Writings of Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff (Stanford University Press, 2011).