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Aziza Amir
Aziza Amir (; 17 December 1901 – 28 February 1952) was an Egyptian actress, producer, and screenwriter. She has legendary status in Cinema of Egypt, Egyptian film. She was the first wife of Mahmoud Zulfikar. Early life Aziza Amir was born Mofida Mohamed Ghoneim in Damiettia, Egypt on 17 December 1901. Amir went to school at Hosn El Massarat on Mohamed Ali Street. Her dad worked at sea to provide for her family. Amir changed her name due to the general outlook of Egyptian society on theatre women and how it would’ve negatively affected her family's reputation. After the revolution of 1919 women's levels of energy rose and they wanted to make a difference. Amir got her acting start in the theater. Career Aziza then took the stage and started working as a theatre actress. She played the part of Napoleon's Daughter on stage, and that is how she met her first husband Ahmed El Sheirei, who was the mayor of Samalout. She joined the "Ramsis" acting troupe in 1925. She acted in the t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Damietta
Damietta ( ' ) is a harbor, port city and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt. It is located at the Damietta branch, an eastern distributary of the Nile Delta, from the Mediterranean Sea, and about north of Cairo. It was a Catholic Diocese, bishopric and is a multiple titular see. It is also a member of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities. Etymology The modern name of the city comes from its Coptic name Tamiati ( ), which in turn most likely comes from Ancient Egyptian language, Ancient Egyptian (, "mooring, port, town") and :wikt:𓊖, t:O49 (), a determinative used for towns and cities, although al-Maqrizi suggested a Syriac language, Syriac etymology. History Mentioned by the 6th-century geographer Stephanus of Byzantium, the city was called ''Tamíathis'' () in the Hellenistic period. Under the Rashidun Caliphate, Rashid caliph Umar (579–644), the Arabs took the city and successfully resisted the attempts by the Byzantine Empire to recover ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian Film Actresses
''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 17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian Silent Film Actresses
''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 cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Damietta
The term "the people" refers to the public or common mass of people of a polity. As such it is a concept of human rights law, international law as well as constitutional law, particularly used for claims of popular sovereignty. In contrast, a people is any plurality of persons considered as a whole. Used in politics and law, the term "a people" refers to the collective or community of an ethnic group or nation. Concepts Legal Chapter One, Article One of the Charter of the United Nations states that "peoples" have the right to self-determination. Though the mere status as peoples and the right to self-determination, as for example in the case of Indigenous peoples (''peoples'', as in all groups of indigenous people, not merely all indigenous persons as in ''indigenous people''), does not automatically provide for independent sovereignty and therefore secession. Indeed, judge Ivor Jennings identified the inherent problems in the right of "peoples" to self-determination, as i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1952 Deaths
Events January–February * January 26 – Cairo Fire, Black Saturday in Kingdom of Egypt, Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses. * February 6 ** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the British Dominions: Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Union of South Africa, South Africa, Dominion of Pakistan, Pakistan and Dominion of Ceylon, Ceylon. The princess, who is on a visit to Kenya when she hears of the death of her father, King George VI, aged 56, takes the regnal name Elizabeth II. ** In the United States, a Artificial heart, mechanical heart is used for the first time in a human patient. *February 7 – New York City announces its first crosswalk devices to be installed. * February 14–February 25, 25 – The 1952 Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics are held in Oslo, Norway. * February 15 – The State Funeral of King Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 Births
December 13 of this year is the beginning of signed 32-bit computing, 32-bit Unix time, and is scheduled to end in Year 2038 problem, January 19, 2038. Summary Political and military 1901 started with the Federation of Australia, unification of multiple Crown colony, British colonies in Australia on January 1 to form the Australia, Commonwealth of Australia after a 1898–1900 Australian constitutional referendums, referendum in 1900, Subsequently, the 1901 Australian federal election, 1901 Australian election would see the first Prime Minister of Australia, Australian prime minister, Edmund Barton. On the same day, Nigeria became a Colonial Nigeria, British protectorate. Following this, the Victorian era, Victorian Era would come to a end after Queen Victoria died on January 22 after a reign of 63 years and 216 days, which was List of monarchs in Britain by length of reign, longer than those of any of her predecessors, Her son, Edward VII, succeeded her to the throne. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virtue For Sale
Virtue for Sale (, translit. ''Akhlaq li - l bay'' or ''Akhlaq lil bai'', aliases: Ethics for Sale or Little Virtues) is a 1950 Egyptian comedy film directed by and starring Mahmoud Zulfikar. The film is based on Yusuf Sibai's story ''Land of Hypocrisy''. Primary cast includes Faten Hamama and Mimi Chakib''.'' Synopsis In a fantasy, the film revolves around a husband who is suffering from his mother-in-law until he encounters a man who sells morality in powders. He buys the powder of courage to face his domineering mother-in-law and changes his life. He decides to go back to the seller and ask for new ones. Crew * Directed by: Mahmoud Zulfikar * Story: Yusuf Sibai * Screenplay: Abo El Seoud El Ebiary * Cinematography: Celilio * Editing: Albert Naguib * Producer: Mahmoud Zulfikar * Production studio: Mahmoud Zulfikar films – Aziza Amir films * Distribution: Bahna films Cast * Mahmoud Zulfikar: (Ahmad) * Faten Hamama: (Amina) * Mimi Chakib: (Amina's mother) * Mahmoud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Lailu Lana
''Al lailu lana'' (, translit.''al-lail lana'', English: The Night is Ours) is a 1949 Egyptian film directed by and starring Mahmoud Zulfikar. The cast includes Sabah, Suleiman Naguib and Nelly Mazloum. Plot Nawal, a singer, and Maysa, a dancer, are two friends who work in a mobile band. The band manager Mohsen takes them to the city of El Mahalla El Kubra. Mohsen takes their revenue and runs away, so the owner of the hall expels them. Nawal and Maysa are thrown out of their hotel and they spend the night in the street, eventually finding an empty car to sleep in. When the owner of the car came, Dr. Wahid Kamel, who was on a home visit, and when he got into his car, he knew of their presence and they recognized him after he was misleading that they were teachers. Wahid saw Nawal again, and they are red to fall in love with each other and Wahid told his father, the Pasha that he wants to marry a school teacher, and he refused. Nawal came out of the theater at night in acting cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
My Father Deceived Me
My Father Deceived Me (aliases: My Father Tricked Me , translit. ''Khadaini abi'') is a 1951 Egyptian film written, directed by and, starring Mahmoud Zulfikar, Sabah and Taheyya Kariokka. Plot Kawthar is a girl who works in the telephone service, and is in love with Mamdouh, a poor young man. Mamdouh proposes to marry Kawthar, but her father refuses and sees that she must marry Shaaban, the rich man, and under her father's pressure, Kawthar marries Shaaban, and lives in his villa in which she resides with him and his daughter who has a mental illness. One of the misfits tries to kill Shaaban, but by chance Mamdouh saves him from fate, and Shaaban could not reward him except by entrusting him with managing the casino he owns, in a confrontation between Kawthar and the villa's maid, the maid declares to her that she is Shaaban's wife, and this is a secret between them, and she also told her that Shaaban, this rich man, is nothing but a forger of money. Others he controls so as n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ibn El-balad
''Ibn El-balad'' ( translit: ''Ibn El-balad''; aliases: ''The Noble Man'', or ''The Urchin or The Son of the Country'') 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 trouble, she gets divorced and finally marries Mahmoud, the love of her life. Cast * Mahmoud Zulfikar * Aziza Amir * Mahmoud El-Meliguy * Bishara Wakim * Stephan Rosti * Dawlat Abyad * Zuzu Shakib * Ferdoos Mohammed * Mohsen Sarhan * Mohammed Tawfik * Scheherazade Scheherazade () ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
