Middle Eastern and North African cinema
Cinematographers, also known as movie theaters, were soon built. The first movie theater was built in 1896 in Algiers and, shortly after, the Lumière Brothers built the Cinematographé Lumière in Alexandria.  Between 1906 and 1908 the French cinematographer company Pathé built cinematographers in Cairo and Alexandria, Egypt, and in Tunis, Tunisia. The first cinematographers, similarly to the first screenings of movies, were not addressed towards the native people. However, Egypt was the first country in which movies had voice-overs in Arabic allowing native audiences to watch as well. While cinema, as a form of entertainment, was widely accepted in North Africa, in much of the Arabian Peninsula was not mainly because of religious reasons.