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Mohsen Sarhan
Mohsen Sarhan ( ar, محسن سرحان) (6 January 1914 in Port Said – 7 February 1993 in Cairo) was an Egyptian actor in multiple films and as part of the National Troupe. Biography One of his performances as part of the National Troupe received praise from ''The Scribe Arab Review''. He was once married to Samiha Ayoub, who has been referred to as "Arab theatre's leading lady". Selected filmography *''Ibn El-balad'' (1942) *'' Lak Yawm Ya Zalem'' (1951) *'' Deprived Lover (1954) *''Kuwait Connection'' (1973) *''Traveller Without A Road'' (1978) *''Howa wa heya ''Howa wa Heya'', (“Him and Her”, “ هو و هي” ) is an Egyptian television drama, that aired for the first time during Ramadan in 1985. It featured many prominent contemporary artists in key roles, with movie stars Soad Hosni, in her ...'' (1985) References 1914 births 1993 deaths Egyptian male actors Actors from Port Said {{egypt-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Port Said
Port Said ( ar, بورسعيد, Būrsaʿīd, ; grc, Πηλούσιον, Pēlousion) is a city that lies in northeast Egypt extending about along the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, north of the Suez Canal. With an approximate population of 603,787 (2010), it is the List of cities and towns in Egypt, fifth-largest city in Egypt. The city was established in 1859 during the building of the Suez Canal. There are numerous old houses with grand balconies on all floors, giving the city a distinctive look. Port Said's twin city is Port Fuad, which lies on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal. The two cities coexist, to the extent that there is hardly any town centre in Port Fuad. The cities are connected by free Ferry, ferries running all through the day, and together they form a metropolitan area with over a million residents that extends both on the African and the Asian sides of the Suez Canal. The only other metropolitan area in the world that also spans two continents is Istanbul. ... [...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] |
Samiha Ayoub
Samiha Ayoub ( ar, سميحة أيوب) is an Egyptian actress known for her work on stage, in film and on television. In 2015, she received the Nile Award in the Arts, and in the same year, the large hall in the National Theater was named after her, in honour of her outstanding career in cinema and theater, and her contributions to the theatrical arts in Egypt. Biography Samiha Ayoub was born in Shubra, Cairo in 1932. She graduated from the Nun's School then joined the Acting Institute in 1952. Her breakthrough came after her role in Samara and ''Rabaa ElAdawya'' (radio series). She has been married three times, to actor Mohsen Sarhan, actor Mahmoud Morsy, and playwright Sa’ed Eddine Wihbe (Saad Eddin Wehbe). Professional life From 1972 to 1975, Ayoub managed The Modern Theatre, and from 1975 to 1985, she was the director of Al-Qawmy Theatre. She acted in the famous television miniseries ''El Miraya'' alongside Salah Zulfikar Salah El Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar ( ar, ص ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibn El-balad
''Ibn El-balad'' (aliases: ''The Noble Man'', or ''The Urchin or The Son of the Country;'' Egyptian Arabic: ''إبن'' ''البلد'' translit: ''Ibn El-balad'') is a 1942 Egyptian film, directed by Stephan Rosti and starring Mahmoud Zulfikar, and Aziza Amir. Plot A contractor forces his daughter Fathia (Aziza Amir) to marry Azmi Bey (Mahmoud El-Meliguy), who covets her money while the other covets his money. Fathia gets to know the engineer Mahmoud (Mahmoud Zulfikar), whose workshop was lost in the Scandinavian raids. Mahmoud can run the factories that she inherited from her father when they were idle. Azmi pretends to be keen on his wife's money. When he senses that he is almost losing her, Fathia asks for a divorce, and after much of trouble, she gets divorced and finally marries Mahmoud, the love of her life. Primary cast * Mahmoud Zulfikar * Aziza Amir * Mahmoud El-Meliguy * Bishara Wakim * Stephan Rosti * Dawlat Abyad * Zuzu Shakib * Ferdoos Mohammed * Mohsen Sarhan * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lak Yawm Ya Zalem
''Your Day Will Come'' ('' ar, لك يوم يا ظالم, Lak Yawm Ya Zalem'') is a classic 1951 Egyptian crime thriller film directed by Salah Abouseif. It starred Faten Hamama, Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Mohammed Tawfik and Mohsen Sarhan and was chosen as one of the best 150 Egyptian film productions in 1996, during the Egyptian Cinema centennial. The film was presented in the Berlin International Film Festival The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi .... Plot A greedy man betrays his friend and falls in love with his wife, who is a rich lady. He kills him and marries the widow. He steals her money and jewelry and mistreats her. He is then arrested by the police and receives his punishment. Cast * Mohammad Tawfik * Faten Hamama * Mahmoud Al Meleji * Muhsen Sarhan External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deprived Lover
''Deprived Lover'' ( ar, العاشق المحروم, transliterated as ''El-asheeq el-mashroom'') is an Egyptian musical comedy drama film released on May 16, 1954. The film is directed and co-written by El-Sayed Ziada, features a screenplay co-written with Ali El Zorkani, and stars Mohsen Sarhan, Amina Rizk, Kamal el-Shennawi, and Ismail Yassine. The rich protagonist fails to drown his son but is ultimately repaid successfully for his sin by his own son to break a will forbidding the son and his mother from inheriting unless they stay unmarried. Cast * Mohsen Sarhan (Fouad Abdelaziz, an engineer) * Amina Rizk (Amina, a nurse) * Kamal el-Shennawi (Raouf, son of Amina and Fouad) * Ismail Yassine (Bassiouni, Tawfik Bey’s chauffeur) * Doria Ahmed (Khadra, Tawfik Bey’s maid) * Mansa Fahmy (Tawfik Shukri Bey) * Hassan Fayek (Hassan Effendi, President of the Association to Fight Poverty, Ignorance, and Disease) * Naima Gamal (Naima, a dancer) * Fathiah Shahin * Mohamed Kamel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuwait Connection
''Kuwait Connection'' ( ar, ذئاب لا تاكل اللحم ) is a 1973 Egyptian action film directed by Lebanese director Samir A. Khouri and featuring a predominantly Egyptian main cast with Lebanese and Kuwaiti actors. The film was released on DVD by Sabbah Media Corporation in 2002. Plot Hired assassin Anwar (Ezzat El Alaili) runs from the police and, wounded, takes refuge in rich libertine Walid's (Mohsen Sarhan) mansion outside Kuwait City. As Anwar narrates his story to Walid's wife Soraya (Nahed Sherif), it is revealed that he was an idealist reporter who became disillusioned with humanity after atrocities he witnessed (starting with Deir Yassin) and was drawn to the criminal world. Cast *Ezzat El Alaili: Anwar *Mohsen Sarhan: Walid *Nahed Sherif Nahed Sherif ( ar, ناهد شريف), (1 January 1942 – 7 April 1981) was an Egyptian actress who came to prominence in Egyptian and Lebanese films of the 1960s and 1970s. Biography Born Samiha Zaki El-Nial () and a Lycé ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Howa Wa Heya
''Howa wa Heya'', (“Him and Her”, “ هو و هي” ) is an Egyptian television drama, that aired for the first time during Ramadan in 1985. It featured many prominent contemporary artists in key roles, with movie stars Soad Hosni, in her sole television role, and Ahmed Zaki. The married couple drama, or dramas rather, were written by Sanaa al-Bisi and adapted by Salah Jahin into a screenplay in a rare anthology series in Egyptian television, where the same actors played different characters and storylines in each of its ten episodes. Hosni was awarded the Transtel (now part of Deutsch Welle) Prize at the African Union of Broadcasting conference in 1985 for her role in the series. Plots ''Howa wa Heya'' is based on a series of short stories columnist Sanaa al-Bisi wrote in Al-Ahram in the early 1980s about a range of social issues couples faced. Each episode presented Hosni and Zaky as completely different couples: dating, married, divorced, former lovers, intersecting t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 Births
This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It also saw the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line. Events January * January 1 – The St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line in the United States starts services between St. Petersburg and Tampa, Florida, becoming the first airline to provide scheduled regular commercial passenger services with heavier-than-air aircraft, with Tony Jannus (the first federally-licensed pilot) conveying passengers in a Benoist XIV flying boat. Abram C. Pheil, mayor of St. Petersburg, is the first airline passenger, and over 3,000 people witness the first departure. * January 11 – The Sakurajima volcano in Japan begins to erupt, becoming effusive after a very large earthquake ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Deaths
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia; In the United States, the ATF besieges a compound belonging to David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; Eritrea gains independence; A major snow storm passes over the United States and Canada, leading to over 300 fatalities; Drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar is killed by Colombian special forces; Ramzi Yousef and other Islamic terrorists detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the United States., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Oslo I Accord rect 200 0 400 200 1993 Russian constitutional crisis rect 400 0 600 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian Male Actors
Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of recorded history ** Egyptian cuisine, the local culinary traditions of Egypt * Egypt, the modern country in northeastern Africa ** Egyptian Arabic, the language spoken in contemporary Egypt ** A citizen of Egypt; see Demographics of Egypt * Ancient Egypt, a civilization from c. 3200 BC to 343 BC ** Ancient Egyptians, ethnic people of ancient Egypt ** Ancient Egyptian architecture, the architectural structure style ** Ancient Egyptian cuisine, the cuisine of ancient Egypt ** Egyptian language, the oldest known language of Egypt and a branch of the Afroasiatic language family * Copts, the ethnic Egyptian Christian minority ** Coptic language or Coptic Egyptian, the latest stage of the Egyptian language, spoken in Egypt until the 17th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
