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Fatin Abdel Wahab
Fatin Abdel Wahab ( ar, فطين عبد الوهاب; 22 November 1913 – 12 May 1972) was an Egyptian film director. He directed 52 films between 1949 and 1970. His 1961 film ''Wife Number 13'' was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival. His 1965 film ''Driven from Paradise'' was entered into the 4th Moscow International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Al-Ustazah Fatimah'' (1952) * '' Miss Hanafi'' (1954) * '' Ismail Yassine in the Navy'' (1957) * '' Hamido's son'' (1957) * ''A Rumor of Love'' (1960) * ''Wife Number 13'' (1961) * ''Bride of the Nile'' (1963) * ''Driven from Paradise'' (1965) * '' Three Thieves'' (1966) * '' My Wife, the Director General'' (1966) * ''My Wife's Dignity'' (1967) * ''My Wife's Goblin ''My Wife's Goblin'' also known as ''My Wife's Ghost'' ( arz, عفريت مراتي , translit. Afreet Meraty) is a 1968 Egyptian romantic comedy film directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab. Primary cast * Salah Zulfikar as Saleh * Shadia as Aid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damietta
Damietta ( arz, دمياط ' ; cop, ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ, Tamiati) is a port city and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt, a former bishopric and present multiple Catholic titular see. It is located at the Damietta branch, an eastern distributary of the Nile Delta, from the Mediterranean Sea, about north of Cairo. Damietta joined the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. Etymology The modern name of the town comes from its Coptic name Tamiati ( cop, ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ} Late Coptic: ), which in turn most likely comes from Ancient Egyptian ("harbour, port"), although al-Maqrizi suggested a Syriac etymology. History Mentioned by the 6th-century geographer Stephanus Byzantius, it was called ''Tamiathis'' () in the Hellenistic period. Under Caliph Omar (579–644), the Arabs took the town and successfully resisted the attempts by the Byzantine Empire to recover it, especially in 739, 821, 921 and 968. The Abbasids used Alexandria, Damietta, Aden and Siraf a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Rumor Of Love
''A Rumor of Love'' (aka ''The Love Rumor''; Arabic: إشاعة حب – ''Eshaet Hob'' or ''Ishayat hub'') is a 1960 Egyptian film by the director Fatin Abdel Wahab. The movie tells a story of a young man and the trouble he goes through to court the girl he is in love with. With the help of his uncle, the father of the girl, he manages to make her fall in love with him – but not after the entire town hears rumors about his womanizing ways. The film based on ''The Whole Town's Talking'', a play by Anita Loos and John Emerson.The Film's page on El Cinema.comSee (in Arabic)/ref> Plot Eshaet Hob starts with the introduction of a wealthy business man, Abdel Qader El Nashashgi ( Youssef Wahby), and his eccentric family – his outspoken wife, Bahiga (Ehsan Elsherif), his two nephews, Hussein ( Omar Sharif) and Mahroos (Abdel-Menam Ibrahim), and his beautiful daughter, Samiha (Soad Hosny). Hussein, a lowly writer turned-manager in his uncle’s firm, is desperately in love with S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 Deaths
Year 197 ( CXCVII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Magius and Rufinus (or, less frequently, year 950 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 197 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place Roman Empire * February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town. * Septimius Severus returns to Rome and has about 30 of Albinus's supporters in the Senate executed. After his victory he declares himself the adopted son of the late Marcus Aurelius. * Septimius Severus forms new naval units, manning all the triremes in Italy with heavily armed troops for war in the East. His soldiers embar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1913 Births
Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the war. * January 13 – Edward Carson founds the (first) Ulster Volunteer Force, by unifying several existing loyalist militias to resist home rule for Ireland. * January 23 – 1913 Ottoman coup d'état: Ismail Enver comes to power. * January – Stalin (whose first article using this name is published this month) travels to Vienna to carry out research. Until he leaves on February 16 the city is home simultaneously to him, Hitler, Trotsky and Tito alongside Berg, Freud and Jung and Ludwig and Paul Wittgenstein. February * February 1 – New York City's Grand Central Terminal, having been rebuilt, reopens as the world's largest railroad station. * February 3 – The 16th Amendment to the United S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Land Of Hypocrisy
''Land of Hypocrisy'' ( ar, أرض النفاق, translit. Ard el Nifaq) is a 1968 Egyptian comedy-drama film by Fatin Abdel Wahab, it is based on Yusuf Sibai's novel of the same name. The novel was depicted before in the 1950 film '' Virtue for Sale''. Cast * Fouad El Mohandes as Masoud Abu El Saad * Shwikar as Ilham * Samiha Ayoub as Susu * Hassan Mostafa as Uweiga Afandi (The manager) * Abdelrahim El Zarakany as The shopkeeper See also * Cinema of Egypt * Lists of Egyptian films * List of Egyptian films of the 1960s Below are lists of films produced in Egypt in the 1960s. *List of Egyptian films of 1960 *List of Egyptian films of 1961 *List of Egyptian films of 1962 *List of Egyptian films of 1963 *List of Egyptian films of 1964 *List of Egyptian films of 19 ... * List of Egyptian films of 1968 References External links * Land of Hypocrisy on elCinema 1960s Arabic-language films 1968 films 1968 comedy-drama films Egyptian comedy-drama films Films based on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Wife's Goblin
''My Wife's Goblin'' also known as ''My Wife's Ghost'' ( arz, عفريت مراتي , translit. Afreet Meraty) is a 1968 Egyptian romantic comedy film directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab. Primary cast * Salah Zulfikar as Saleh * Shadia as Aida * Emad Hamdy as Raef * Adel Emam as Shafaey * Hassan Hussein as Lamey See also * Cinema of Egypt * Lists of Egyptian films * Salah Zulfikar filmography * List of Egyptian films of 1968 * List of Egyptian films of the 1960s Below are lists of films produced in Egypt in the 1960s. *List of Egyptian films of 1960 *List of Egyptian films of 1961 *List of Egyptian films of 1962 *List of Egyptian films of 1963 *List of Egyptian films of 1964 *List of Egyptian films of 19 ... References External links * My Wife's Goblin on elCinema* “Raw Narrative Walks on Two Feet.” ''Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated'', by Mohamed Berrada and Christina Phillips, American University in Cairo Press, Cairo; New York, 2009, pp. 139–154. ''JSTOR'', ww ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Wife's Dignity
''My Wife's Dignity'' (Egyptian Arabic: كرامة زوجتي translit: ''Karamet Zawgati'' or ''Karamat Zawjati'') is 1967 Egyptian film written by Ihsan Abdel Quddous and directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab. The film stars Salah Zulfikar and Shadia. Plot Mahmoud is a womanizer. He spends all his time in relationships without thinking about marriage and tries to get close to Nadia, his club partner for five years, but she repels him, forcing him to ask for marriage and stipulates that before agreeing that if he betrays her, she will betray him in the same way. Mahmoud agrees and marries her, and she succeeds in turning him into another successful person in his working life. After months of marriage, the wife suspects her husband’s actions, then discovers his betrayal with one of his clients, and begins to act with him in a way that suggests that she is cheating on him, which makes him live in torment and pain, and when the suspicion increases, he divorces her and leaves Cairo to fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Wife, The Director General
My Wife, the Director General ( ar, مراتي مدير عام, translit.Miraty Modir 'Am) is a 1966 Egyptian Comedy film directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab. It stars Salah Zulfikar and Shadia. The film is listed in the Top 100 Egyptian films of the 20th century. Plot Hussein Omar, the head of the projects department, is surprised by the transfer of his wife, Ismat Fahmy, as the general manager of the construction company he works for. This stems from many paradoxes from his co-workers and the different temperament of his wife in dealing with him at work from home. Cast * Salah Zulfikar as Hussein Omar * Shadia as Ismat Fahmy * Tawfik El Deken as Abou El Khir Hassanein * Yousuf Shaaban as the director's secretary * Shafik Nour El Din as Abdel 'Awy * Cariman as Aida * El Deif Ahmed as Hotel waiter * Adel Emam as Abou El Magd See also * Cinema of Egypt * Lists of Egyptian films * Salah Zulfikar filmography * List of Egyptian films of the 1960s Below are lists of films produced i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Thieves (1966)
Three Thieves also known as 3 Robbers (Egyptian Arabic: ثلاثة لصوص translit: ''Thalathat lousous'' french:''Trois voleurs'') is a 1966 Egyptian film. It tells 3 separate stories about three thieves. The film is written by Ihsan Abdel Quddous and produced by Salah Zulfikar. Yehia Chahine played the role of the judge. First story: The gold thief Plot The events revolve around Mohsen, an employee who is transferred to Cairo. He searches for an apartment to live in. He finds an apartment, but is surprised by its high price. He requires that he buy meat from the owner of the apartment who owns a butcher's shop. He gets to know the butcher's wife and goes to her apartment and gives him some of her gold. The wife is against someone else who comes to buy another apartment, the wife refuses to meet Mohsen and he decides to steal the wife's gold. Cast * Salah Zulfikar: (Mohsen) * Hind Rostom: (Narges - Madbouly's wife) * Saeed Abu Bakr: (Musad Al-Bawab) * Mohamed Reda: (Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bride Of The Nile
''Bride of The Nile'' ( arz, عروس النيل, translit. A'roos El Nil) is a 1963 Egyptian fantasy film directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab. Cast * Lobna Abdel Aziz as Hamis * Rushdy Abaza as Samy Fouad * Shwikar as Didi * Abdel Moneim Ibrahim as Fathy * Fouad Shafik as Doctor Hassan See also * Cinema of Egypt * Lists of Egyptian films * List of Egyptian films of the 1960s Below are lists of films produced in Egypt in the 1960s. *List of Egyptian films of 1960 *List of Egyptian films of 1961 *List of Egyptian films of 1962 *List of Egyptian films of 1963 *List of Egyptian films of 1964 *List of Egyptian films of 19 ... References External links * 1963 films 1960s Arabic-language films 1960s fantasy films Egyptian fantasy films Films directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab {{Egypt-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beirut
Beirut, french: Beyrouth is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. , Greater Beirut has a population of 2.5 million, which makes it the third-largest city in the Levant region. The city is situated on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coast. Beirut has been inhabited for more than 5,000 years, and was one of Phoenicia's most prominent city states, making it one of the oldest cities in the world (see Berytus). The first historical mention of Beirut is found in the Amarna letters from the New Kingdom of Egypt, which date to the 14th century BC. Beirut is Lebanon's seat of government and plays a central role in the Lebanese economy, with many banks and corporations based in the city. Beirut is an important seaport for the country and region, and rated a Beta + World City by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network. Beirut was severely damaged by the Lebanese Civil War, the 2006 Lebanon War, and the 2020 massive explosion in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
