El akhar, French: L'Autre) is a 1999 French-Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine.

[1] Lebanese soprano Majida El Roumi sang "Adam W Hanan", an Egyptian song included in the film.

Love sparks when Adam, back visiting Cairo from University of California, Los Angeles, meets Hanan, native journalist from a smaller town of Egypt in seek of a juicy story to expose the gritty truth about corruption running rampant in the country.

Adam's mother, Margaret, very much Americanized and obsessed with Western culture, expresses much displeasure with her son's rash decision to marry a girl such as Hanan, when it would be better to marry a wealthy Western woman, believing "money is the only thing that binds."

Eventually the two make up, and later Adam goes with Hanan to investigate what is happening with her exiled brother (who turns out to be the terrorist).