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Hassan Youssef (actor)
Hassan Youssef ( ar, حسن يوسف; born 14 April 1939) is an Egyptian actor and director. He performed in many films since 1960s and indicated that he made fifteen films with the famous Egyptian actress Soad Hosny all of which were successful at the box office (the interview is available on YouTube). He also acted in several dramatic series in early 1980s including ''Dalia the Egyptian'' with the famous Egyptian actor Salah Zulfikar, and featuring actress Madiha Salem as Dalia. He acted in the famously drama series ''Layaly El Helmeya'' in mid 1980s. He has been married to former actress Shams al-Baroudi since 1970.Rizq, Hamdi (حمدى رزق).Renouncing The 'Niqab'." (Print version, ) Translation bEltorjoman International. ''Almasry Alyoum''. Monday 25 February 2008. Issue 1352. Page 13. Retrieved on February 20, 2013. Original Arabic article:العودة من النقاب" (Print friendly ) They have four children, including a son, Omar H. Youssef. On July 11, 2011, on the r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soad Hosny
System of a Down (also known as SoaD or simply System) is an Armenian-American heavy metal band formed in Glendale, California, in 1994. Since 1997, the band has consisted of Serj Tankian (lead vocals, keyboards); Daron Malakian (guitar, vocals); Shavo Odadjian (bass, backing vocals); and John Dolmayan (drums), who replaced original drummer Andy Khachaturian. The band achieved commercial success with the release of five studio albums, three of which debuted at number one on the US ''Billboard'' 200. System of a Down has been nominated for four Grammy Awards, and their song " B.Y.O.B." won a Grammy Award for Best Hard Rock Performance in 2006. The band went on hiatus in 2006 and reunited in 2010. Other than two new songs in 2020 (" Protect the Land" and "Genocidal Humanoidz"), System of a Down has not released a full-length record since the '' Mezmerize'' and '' Hypnotize'' albums in 2005. The band has sold over 12 million records worldwide, while two of their singles, " Aeri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salah Zulfikar
Salah El Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar ( ar, صلاح ذو الفقار; ; 18 January 1926 – 22 December 1993) was an Egyptian actor and film producer. He started his career as a police officer in the Egyptian National Police, before becoming an actor in 1956. He is regarded as one of the most influential actors in the history of Egyptian film industry. Zulfikar had roles in more than hundred feature films in multiple genres during a 37-year career, mostly as the leading actor. In 1996, in the centenary of Egyptian cinema, ten of his films as an actor and five of his films as a producer were listed in the Top hundred Egyptian films of the 20th century. Salah Zulfikar was one of Egypt's heroes in its battle against the occupation while serving in the police. His son, Egyptian entrepreneur Ahmed Zulfikar, mentioned in a 1994 press release that his father participated in the guerrilla war in Ismailia against the British in 1944, and his patriotism was without limits. Afterwards, Zul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madiha Salem
Madiha Salem ( ar, مديحة سالم; 2 October 1944 – 19 November 2015) was an Egyptian actress who appeared in 29 films, and 13 radio and TV serials. She is known for playing the "dreamy teenager" in Egyptian classics from the 1960s. Early life Salem was born in the Zamalek neighborhood of Cairo. In high school she studied at the Zamalek School for Girls. Her father died shortly after she finished high school, forcing her to abandon further studies and to look for work. Career Known as the "teenager of the cinema" and the "innocent cat of the screen," she played many supporting roles during the golden era of Egyptian cinema of the 60s and 70s, mainly in the role of the dreamy teenager. She acted on TV and worked as a voice actress in radio serials as well. She is said to have drawn attention for her "light-hearted and unassuming" performances of her roles on the Egyptian screen. She quit acting in the early 80s, preferring to spend her time with her husband and family. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shams Al-Baroudi
Shams al-Muluk Gamil al-Baroudi ( ar, شمس الملوك جميل البارودي) is a retired Egyptian actress who was active in Egyptian films and also Lebanese films during the 1960s and 1970s. Lisa Anderson of the ''Chicago Tribune'' described her as "one of the most beautiful and glamorous of Egypt's actresses".Anderson, Lisa. "Egypt's cultural shift reflects Islam's pull." ''Chicago Tribune''. March 21, 2004. p3 Retrieved on February 21, 2013. Career She was born to an Egyptian father and a Syrian mother who was born in Egypt, al-Baroudi studied at the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Cairo for two and a half years and made her cinema debut in Ismail Yassin's comedy '' Hired Husband'' (زوج بالإيجار) in 1961. After a prolific career in the 1960s, she came under spotlight with "transgressive" roles in early 1970s, such as her role in Salah Zulfikar's psychological drama '' The Other Man'' (الرجل الآخر) in 1973 and ''Malatily Bathhouse'' (حمام ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almasry Alyoum
''Al-Masry Al-Youm'' ( ar, المصري اليوم ', , meaning ''The Egyptian Today'') is an Egyptian privately owned Daily paper, daily newspaper that was first published in June 2004. It is published in Modern Standard Arabic, Arabic as is its website, ''almasryalyoum.com''. An English version of the website was introduced in 2009 as the ''Al-masry Al-youm English Edition'', which later evolved into ''Egypt Independent''. It strives to be a full-service multimedia news organization for Egypt. History and profile The newspaper was founded in late 2002 by Salah Diab, an Egyptian businessman whose grandfather (Tawfik Diab) was one of Egypt's most renowned publishers in the 1930s and 1940s. Hisham Kassem is also a founder of ''Al Masry Al Youm''. In 2004, its establishment was finalized, and on 7 June 2004, it published its first edition. The publisher of the daily is Al-Masry Al-Youm for Journalism and Publication. Magdi El Galad is one of the former Editor-in-chief, editors-in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandria grew rapidly and became a major centre of Hellenic civilisation, eventually replacing Memphis, in present-day Greater Cairo, as Egypt's capital. During the Hellenistic period, it was home to the Lighthouse of Alexandria, which ranked among the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, as well as the storied Library of Alexandria. Today, the library is reincarnated in the disc-shaped, ultramodern Bibliotheca Alexandrina. Its 15th-century seafront Qaitbay Citadel is now a museum. Called the "Bride of the Mediterranean" by locals, Alexandria is a popular tourist destination and an important industrial centre due to its natural gas and oil pipelines from Suez. The city extends about along the northern coast of Egypt, and is the largest city on t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tahrir Square
Tahrir Square ( ar, ميدان التحرير ', , English language, English: Liberation Square), also known as "Martyr Square", is a major public town square in downtown Cairo, Egypt. The square has been the location and focus for political demonstrations in Cairo since the early 20th century; the city's previous central square was Salah al-Din Square. The 2011 Egyptian revolution and the resignation of President of Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak occurred at the Tahrir Square. History The square was originally called "Ismailia Square" ( '), after the 19th-century ruler Khedive Ismail, who commissioned the new downtown district's 'Paris on the Nile' design. After the Egyptian Revolution of 1919, the square became widely known as Tahrir (Liberation) Square. In 1933 Fuad I of Egypt, King Fuad I (r. 1922–1936), the son of Khedive Ismail, renamed the square officially to Khedive Ismail Square ('). Before the end of his reign in 1936, a roundabout with a garden was created at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
There Is A Man In Our House
''There Is a Man in Our House '' or ''A Man in Our House'' ( ar, في بيتِنا رَجِل Fi baitina rajul), is a 1961 Egyptian drama, history, romance film directed by Henry Barakat, an Egyptian film director of Lebanese origin. The film is based on a novel by an Egyptian writer, Ihsan Abdel Quddous, and stars Omar Sharif. ''There Is a Man in Our House'' is one of the Top 100 Egyptian films. Plot Ibrahim is a young radical leader who lost his brother during a student demonstration that turned out to be very violent when the police decided to get involved and started to shoot anyone in their way. Unfortunately, Ibrahim's brother, a young smart boy, was shot to death in front of Ibrahim. When Ibrahim sees this, he plans to murder the prime minister as revenge, and he succeeds. After murdering the Prime Minister, Ibrahim seeks to hide in his friend's house, as he had no other choice whatsoever because the authorities were pursuing him. His presence in the house endangered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Thieves (1966 Film)
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] |
1934 Births
Events January–February * January 1 – The International Telecommunication Union, a specialist agency of the League of Nations, is established. * January 15 – The 8.0 Nepal–Bihar earthquake strikes Nepal and Bihar with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (''Extreme''), killing an estimated 6,000–10,700 people. * January 26 – A 10-year German–Polish declaration of non-aggression is signed by Nazi Germany and the Second Polish Republic. * January 30 ** In Nazi Germany, the political power of federal states such as Prussia is substantially abolished, by the "Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich" (''Gesetz über den Neuaufbau des Reiches''). ** Franklin D. Roosevelt, President of the United States, signs the Gold Reserve Act: all gold held in the Federal Reserve is to be surrendered to the United States Department of the Treasury; immediately following, the President raises the statutory gold price from US$20.67 per ounce to $35. * February 6 – F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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