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List Of Lebanese People In Egypt
This is a list of notable individuals born in Egypt of Lebanese ancestry or people of Lebanese and Egyptian dual nationality who live or lived in Egypt. Film, television and radio personalities * Youseff Chahine, film director * Henry Barakat, film director * Assia Dagher, actress and producer * Nour el Houda- actress * Mary Queeny, actress and producer *Georges Schehadé, playwright and poet * Omar Sharif, actor *Hana Shiha, actress * Badia Masabni- actress and dancer * Rose Al Yusuf- actress and journalist Writers and journalists * George Antonius- author and historian *Farah Antun- journalist and secularist * Alexandra Avierino, journalist and writer *Celine Axelos, poet * Andrée Chedid, poet *Zaynab Fawwaz- novelist and playwright * Labiba Hashim- novelist and founder of '' Fatat al-sharq'' *Khalil Mutran- poet and journalist * Hind Nawfal, journalist and feminist writer * Ihsan Abdel Quddous- novelist * Edward Zaid, writer * Jurji Zaydan- novelist, founder of ''Al-Hilal' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip of Palestine and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south, and Libya to the west. The Gulf of Aqaba in the northeast separates Egypt from Jordan and Saudi Arabia. Cairo is the capital and largest city of Egypt, while Alexandria, the second-largest city, is an important industrial and tourist hub at the Mediterranean coast. At approximately 100 million inhabitants, Egypt is the 14th-most populated country in the world. Egypt has one of the longest histories of any country, tracing its heritage along the Nile Delta back to the 6th–4th millennia BCE. Considered a cradle of civilisation, Ancient Egypt saw some of the earliest developments of writing, agriculture, ur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Labiba Hashim
Labiba Hashim (لبيبة هاشم) (1952-1882) was a Lebanese author who founded and published ''Fatat al-Sharq'' (''Girl of the East''- "فتاة الشرق") magazine in Cairo in 1906, one of the first female-oriented magazines of the Arab world. In the magazine Hashim advocated for women's rights, especially rights related to women's education and involvement in politics. Today, many researchers are working to collect information about Hashim in order to preserve her heritage and legacy . Early life Labiba Hashim, the daughter of Nassif Madi, was born in Kfarshima, Lebanon in 1882. Her father sent her to a nun school "Sisters of Love School and the English Missionary School" in Lebanon. She learned French and English in her teenage years. She also studied at the American University of Beirut, also referred to as AUB. She contributed to the publication of '' Al Hilal'', ''Thurayya'', ''Al Bayan'', and ''Al Diya''. Marriage Labiba Hashim was married to Abdo Hashim, an author. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Édika
Édika is the pen name of Édouard Karali (born 17 December 1940 in Heliopolis (Cairo Suburb), Heliopolis, Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt), a France, French comics artist, who is renowned for his distinctively absurd style. A number of his comic strips have been translated into several European languages such as; English language, English (published by ''Knockabout Comics''), Spanish language, Spanish, Italian language, Italian (in the magazine ''Totem comic''), German language, German (published by ''Alpha Comics''), Swedish language, Swedish (published by ''Epix''), Danish language, Danish (published by ''Runepress'') and Greek language, Greek (in the magazines ''Babel'' and ''Para Pente''). Biography Initially working for the advertising industry in Egypt, he moved to France where his works were published in the Franco-Belgian comics magazines ''Pilote'', ''Charlie Mensuel'', and ''Psikopat'', the magazine of his brother Paul Carali. A major milestone in his career as a comics artist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Azzam
Wadie George Azzam, better known by his stage name Bob Azzam, (24 October 1925 in Alexandria – 24 July 2004 in Monaco) was an Egyptian singer. With his hit song " Mustapha", created and composed by Egyptian musician Mohamed Fawzi for the Egyptian movie; That's What Love Is (1961); Azzam achieved success in France in the 1960s, the song was later sang by other different singers. '''', 30 May 1960 The track peaked at No. 23 in the , spending fourteen weeks in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farid Al-Atrash
Farid al-Atrash ( ar, فريد الأطرش; October 19, 1916 – December 26, 1974), also written Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor. Having immigrated to Egypt at the age of only nine years old with his mother and siblings, he studied there under numerous respected musicians. Al-Atrash embarked on a highly successful career spanning more than four decades—recording 500 songs and starring in 31 movies. Sometimes referred to as "malek al-oud", he is one of the most important figures of 20th- century Arab music. Early life Al-Atrash was born in Al-Qurayya, in southern Syria to the Druze princely al-Atrash family who fought the French colonial army. His father was Syrian and his mother was Lebanese. As a young child, al-Atrash emigrated with his mother and siblings to Egypt, escaping the French occupation. Later, they were naturalized by the Egyptian government as citizens. Farid's mother sang and played the Oud, which ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saleem Takla
Saleem Takla ( ar, سليم تقلا, also spelled Selim Taqla; 1849 – August 8, 1892) was a Lebanese-Ottoman journalist who founded of ''Al-Ahram'' newspaper with his brother Beshara Takla. Early life and education Saleem Takla was born in Kfarshima, Lebanon in 1849“السيرة الذاتية للأستاذ / سليم تقلا,” Al-Ahram, http://www.alahram.org.eg/ahram_board_sleem.htm. to Khalil and Nada Takla.حمزة عليان, “آل تقلا و«الأهرام»,” Al-Qabas, January 23, 2010. http://www.alqabas.com.kw/node/600144. The Takla family was Melkite Greek Catholic. When he was 12, he was sent to school in Beirut, first to a grade school organized by Cornelius Van Alen Van Dyck and then to the National School in Abey founded by Butrus al-Bustani. During that time, the 1860 Druze–Maronite conflict dramatically impacted the region. After completing his studies, Takla taught at the Patriarchal College in Beirut founded by Gregory II Youssef. Moving to Ale ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Ahram
''Al-Ahram'' ( ar, الأهرام; ''The Pyramids''), founded on 5 August 1875, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after '' al-Waqa'i`al-Masriya'' (''The Egyptian Events'', founded 1828). It is majority owned by the Egyptian government, and is considered a newspaper of record for Egypt. Given the many varieties of Arabic language, ''Al-Ahram'' is widely considered an influential source of writing style in Arabic. In 1950, the Middle East Institute described ''Al-Ahram'' as being to the Arabic-reading public within its area of distribution, "What ''The Times'' is to Englishmen and ''The New York Times'' to Americans";Middle East Institute, 1950, p. 155. however, it has often been accused of heavy influence and censorship by the Egyptian government. In addition to the main edition published in Egypt, the paper publishes two other Arabic-language editions, one geared to the Arab world and the other aimed at an international audience, as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May Ziadeh
May Elias Ziadeh ( ; ar, مي إلياس زيادة, ; 11 February 1886 – 17 October 1941) was a Lebanese people, Lebanese-Palestinians, Palestinian poet, essayist, and translator, who wrote many different works both in Arabic language, Arabic and in French language, French. After attending school in her native city Nazareth and in Lebanon, May Elias Ziadeh immigrated along with her family to Egypt in 1908, and started publishing her works in French (under the pen name Isis Copia) in 1911. Kahlil Gibran, Gibran Kahlil Gibran entered into a correspondence with her in 1912. Being a prolific writer, she wrote for Arabic-language newspapers and periodicals, along with publishing poems and books. May Elias Ziadeh held one of the Women's literary salons and societies in the Arab world, most famous literary salons in the modern Arab world in the year 1921. After suffering some personal losses at the beginning of the 1930s, she came back to Lebanon where her relatives placed her in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Hilal (magazine)
''Al-Hilal'' () is a monthly Egyptian cultural and literature magazine founded in 1892. It is among the oldest magazines dealing with arts in the Arab world. History and profile ''Al-Hilal'' was founded in 1892 by Jurji Zaydan, a journalist from Beirut who had come to Egypt in the 1880s. The first issue of the monthly was published in September 1892. After Jurji Zaydan's death the journal was edited by his sons, Emile and Shukri Zaydan. Shortly after its start ''Al-Hilal'' managed to be a popular magazine along with another magazine '' Al Muqtataf''. The magazine, published in Arabic, is based in Cairo. It is one of the state-owned publications in the country. State-run Dar Al Hilal Publishing House is the publisher of the magazine. Past issues of ''Al-Hilal'' were digitized by the Bibliotheca Alexandrina. In addition, the publisher also archived the past issues of the magazine and of other publications. South Korean news agency the ''AsiaN'' and the magazine initiated a cultu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jurji Zaydan
Jurji Zaydan ( ar, جرجي زيدان, ; December 14, 1861 – July 21, 1914) was a prolific Lebanese novelist, journalist, editor and teacher, most noted for his creation of the magazine ''Al-Hilal (magazine), Al-Hilal'', which he used to serialize his twenty three historical novels. His primary goal, as a writer and intellectual during the Nahda, was to make the common Arabic population know their own history through the entertaining medium of the novel. He has enjoyed a widespread popularity. He is also considered to have been one of the first thinkers to help formulate the theory of Arab nationalism. Early life Jurji Zaydan was born on December 14, 1861 in Beirut to an Eastern Orthodox Christianity in Lebanon, Eastern Orthodox Christian family of limited means. His father owned a restaurant and, being illiterate and uneducated himself, placed little importance on education. Zaydan dropped out of school after he completed an elementary education to help his father run the b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Said
Edward Wadie Said (; , ; 1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.Robert Young, ''White Mythologies: Writing History and the West'', New York & London: Routledge, 1990. Born in Mandatory Palestine, he was a citizen of the United States by way of his father, a U.S. Army veteran. Educated in the Western canon at British and American schools, Said applied his education and bi-cultural perspective to illuminating the gaps of cultural and political understanding between the Western world and the Eastern world, especially about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in the Middle East; his principal influences were Antonio Gramsci, Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, Michel Foucault, and Theodor Adorno. As a cultural critic, Said is known for the book ''Orientalism'' (1978), a critique of the cultural representations that are the bases o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ihsan Abdel Quddous
Ihsan Abdel Quddous ( arz, إحسان عبد القدوس ', ) (1 January 1919 – 12 January 1990) was an Egyptian writer, novelist, and journalist and editor in Egypt's '' Al Akhbar'' and ''Al-Ahram'' newspapers. He wrote many novels that were adapted into films, and served as editor for many years of the literary journal ''Ruz al-Yusuf''. Early life and education Abdel Quddous was born in Cairo, Egypt, to an Egyptian father, Mohamed Abd El-Quddous, and Turkish-Lebanese journalist Rose al Yusuf. His favorite hobby as a child was reading. At the age of eleven, he started writing short stories and classical poems. His father, Mohamed Abdel Quddous, an Egyptian theater and film actor, motivated him to pursue a career in law. Ihsan graduated from law school in 1942 and worked as a lawyer. He was, at the beginning of his career, a trainee for the law firm of Edward Qussairi, a famous Egyptian lawyer. He was also an editor in '' Rose al Youssef'', a weekly magazine that his mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
