How to Live with Your Salary

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How to Live with Your Salary, is a 2000 Egyptian movie, directed by Tarik Al-Nahry, and starring Sanaa Younes, Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra, Azza Bahaa. with a runtime of 65 minutes.

Overview

How to Live with Your Salary is an Egyptian social comedy set in the early 2000s, capturing the financial squeeze felt by Egypt's middle class as salaries fail to keep pace with rising prices. At the centre is Dr Adam, an economics professional who finds himself as economically stretched as everyone around him, prompting him to write an article proposing practical strategies for making a monthly salary go further. The series brings together his extended family — including his university-student son Tamer, his Fine Arts student daughter Salma, and his legendarily frugal wife Fawzia — in a warm and funny portrait of a household trying to stay afloat amid real economic pressures.

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