Egyptian Film During The 1950s and 1960s: Class tensions, Nationalism and Gender relations. Egyptian society was permanently transformed after the 1952 Revolution. These changes are visible through the development of gender roles portrayed in films of the era of President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who took office in 1954. During his tenure from 1954 to 1970 he advocated for nationalism, anti-imperialism, socialism and gender role transformations. Egyptian films began to embody the essence of gender roles and relations of the period. Egyptian popular films such as Memoirs of a Student/ zekrayat talebah (1962), The Empty Pillow/ el wasada al khalya (1957), Mother of The Bride/ umm al 'arusah (1963), and A Film For Men Only/ film lel rejal faqat (1964), represented Egyptian attitudes of the 1950s and 60s towards money, education, love and the increased presence of women in the public sphere. The films are a miniature portrait of the contradictions and upheaval of the Nasser years. My research focuses on the depiction of women in 1950s and 60s films and the driving factors behind this depiction. What caused gender norms to drastically change during this periodo Did conventions of filmmaking differ from the 1930s and 1940s0 Was there a new generation of filmmakersr Did women's lives naturally change from mothers of the state to daughters of the state over a twenty-year periodr To what extent did the state interfere with gender norms and to what extent did it try to control women's bodies through state interventione There remains a gap in both feminist and film literature when it comes to the sudden transformation of gender norms and women's roles within the state. My analysis of the four films mentioned earlier shows how the depiction of nationalism, gender tensions and class tensions tracks with broad social changes in Egypt and shows the interplay between the two.