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Fawazeer Ramadan
Fawazeer Ramadan ( ar, فوازير رمضان) was an Egyptian television show broadcast during the month of Ramadan. It involved riddles (''fawazeer'') presented in musical form, with awards given out to the winners. The show began in the 1960s and lasted until the year 2000, being broadcast irregularly. Many prominent Egyptian actors and entertainers participated in the show, most notably Sherihan, Fouad el-Mohandes, Nelly Cornell Iral Haynes Jr. (born November 2, 1974), better known by his stage name Nelly, is an American rapper, singer, actor and entrepreneur. He embarked on his music career with the hip hop group St. Lunatics in 1993 and signed to Universal ..., and the Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah trio. Sherihan's performances in particular have had a strong cultural influence in the Arabic-speaking world. References Egyptian television series Ramadan {{Egypt-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramadan
, type = islam , longtype = Religious , image = Ramadan montage.jpg , caption=From top, left to right: A crescent moon over Sarıçam, Turkey, marking the beginning of the Islamic month of Ramadan. Ramadan Quran reading in Bandar Torkaman, Iran. Community Iftar meal in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Tarawah prayers in a mosque in West Sumatra, Indonesia. Foods served at a traditional Iftar meal. Ramadan decorations in Jerusalem. Zakat donation boxes in Taipei, Taiwan. , official_name = , observedby = Muslims , begins = At the last night of the month of Sha'ban , ends = At the last night of the month of Ramadan , date = Variable (follows the Islamic lunar calendar) , date2022 = 2 April – 2 May , celebrations = Community iftars and Community prayers , observances = * Sawm (fasting) * Zakat and sadaqah (alms giving) * Commemorating Qadr Night * Reading the Quran * Abstaining from all bad deeds and staying humble * Taraweeh prayer (Sunni Muslims) , relatedto = Eid al-F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherihan
Sherihan ( ar, شريهان) (born 6 December 1964) is an Egyptian actress, singer and classically trained dancer. Biography Sherihan started acting at the age of four. She is mostly known for Fawazir Ramadan. She retired in 2002 and came out of retirement in 2016. In 2021, she made her stage return after a 20-year hiatus from acting by starring in ''Coco Chanel'' play. Personal life Sherihan is a half-sister of Omar Khorshid. She married Jordanian businessman Alaa Khawaja, with whom she has two daughters. In 1990, she had a terrible accident, in which she broke her back including the spine. In 2002, she suffered from Salivary gland tumours, which forced her to retire from acting. Sherihan is a popular Egyptian nationalist too and was a main participating figure in her homeland's revolution in 2011 demanding the removal of president Hosni Mubarak Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak, (; 4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian politician and military officer wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fouad El-Mohandes
Fouad Zaki Mohamed el-Mohandes ar, فؤاد زكي محمد المهندس; known as Fouad el-Mohandes (or Fuad el-Mohandess; ar, فؤاد المهندس; September 6, 1924 – September 16, 2006) was an Egyptian stage and screen actor, and star from the 1950s specializing mostly in comedy roles in dozens of theater, cinema, and TV hits spanning five decades. Biography Born in Abbassia, Cairo. he was the son of linguist Zaki Mohamed el-Mohandes, the dean of the faculty of Dar al-Oloom and a member of the Arabic language Academy of Egypt. Therefore, their home was a fortress to preserve the Arabic language, which he mastered through his father, who was the one who had the first credit in developing his artistic talents. el-Mohandes was survived by a brother and two sisters, one of whom is the late Safiya el-Mohandes, who was the head of Television and Radio station for more than ten years successively, and a noted Egyptian broadcaster who was married to Mohamed Mahmoud Shaab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelly (Egyptian Entertainer)
Nelly Artin Kalfayan ( ar, نيلّي آرتين كالفيان, born 3 January 1949 in Cairo, Egypt), better known by only her mononym Nelly, is an Egyptian actress, singer, comedian, dancer, television personality, and all-around entertainer. Family background Nelly was born and 1949 to an Egyptian family of Armenian roots. The school she attended as a child was run by and for people of Armenian descent in Cairo. She is the younger sister of Feyrouz, a well-known child actress, and a cousin of Lubluba, another well-known Egyptian-Armenian film actress who is a little older than she is. Nelly was married to the Egyptian film director Houssam El-Din Mustafa, and later on she married musician Moody Elemam for a very short time. She later married Khaled Barakat (Egyptian businessman) and moved to London, then later divorced and married Adel Hossny, another Egyptian businessman working in the Tourism industry. Career Her father was a film director. and she started her career as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah
Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah ( arz, ثلاثى أضواء المسرح) was an Egyptian stand-up comedy trio formed of the Egyptian comedians alongside El Deif Ahmed, George Sidhom and Samir Ghanem Samir Yousef Ghanem ( ar, سمير يوسف غانم; 15 January 1937 – 20 May 2021) was an Egyptian comedian, singer, and entertainer. Career Ghanem was born in al-ʿAtawlah, Asyut Governorate. He earned a bachelor's degree in Agriculture f .... They performed various musical sketches, stand-up comedy shows, comedy plays and movies. Their debut was ''Doctor Save Me'', a short performance that introduced them to the world of fame. They presented the first ever TV Ramadan Riddles, which continued for ten years and was written by Hussain El-Said. Their most popular movies are 'Akher Shakawa', '30 Yom fel Segn', 'El Maganeen El Talata'. After El Deif Ahmed's death in 1970, Ghanem and Sidhom continued under the same name (Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah) until 1982. Notable plays *Tabeek ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian Television Series
An Arab television drama or Arab soap opera (also known as musalsal ( ar, مسلسل), plural musalsalat ( ar, مسلسلات)) is a television form of melodramatic serialized fiction. The musalsalat are similar in style to Latin American telenovelas. They are often historical epics about Islamic figures or love stories involving class conflict and intrigue. The word ''musalsal'' literally means "chained, continuous". During the evenings of the month of Ramadan, after the Iftar meal is eaten to break the day's fast, families across much of the Arab world watch these special dramas on television. Arab satellite channels broadcast the programs each night, drawing families who have gathered to break their fast. Most musalselat are bundled into about 30 episodes, or about one episode for each night of Ramadan. These television series are an integral part of the Ramadan tradition, the same way the hakawati, the storyteller who recounted tales and myths, was part of Ramadan nights in th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
