Tawfiq Saleh was born in 1927 with Alexandria, it develops a work of political cinema very deep in the Arab world. That it is by its dared adaptation of a capital literary work (Journal of a Substitute of Countryside of Tawfiq Al-Hakim) or its original screenplays this realizer had constantly business with the censure of its country. Tawfiq Saleh was exiled in Iraq for a time.

Catalog of films

• 1955 : the Lane of Insane the ( Darb Al-Mahâbil )

• 1962: the Fight of the heroes ( Sirâa Al-Abtâl )
• 1967: the Passage of Master Bulti ( Zuqâq Al-sayyid Al-Bulti )
• 1968: Revolted the ( Al-Mutamarridûn )
• 1968: Newspaper of a Substitute of Countryside ( Yawmiyyât Nâ' ib wire-Ariâf )
• 1972: Easily deceived the ( Al-Makhdu' a )