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Money And Women
''Money and Women'' ( ar, مال ونساء, transliterated: ''Mal Wa Nissa'', aliases: ''Fortune and Females'') is an Egyptian film released in 1960. The film is directed by Hassan Al-Imam and stars Salah Zulfikar, Soad Hosny and Youssef Wahbi. Plot Shehata Effendi is an employee in a hospital, a simple man with a lively conscience who represents a thorn in the throat of his corrupt colleagues who embezzled from the hospital's warehouses, and they are Badawi, Hanafi, Borai and Bashkatib, Where they agree with the supplier to send his representative in half the quantities, they sign the invoices in the full amount, and they take the difference for themselves away from Shehata, who was living with his wife Amina and his daughter Nemat who aspires to get rich and glory, and loves her neighbor Hussein, the son of Saber, the shoe worker. Hussein was an employee and affiliated with one of the colleges, and he had got engaged to Nemat, but when Shehata Effendi saw them alone on th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hassan Al-Imam
Hassan al-Imam ( ar, حسن الإمام; March 6, 1919 in Mansoura, Egypt – January 29, 1988) was a prominent Egyptian film director. He was nicknamed the Box-office King, made three films listed in the Top 100 Egyptian films list. Early life Hassan Al-Imam was born on March 6, 1919 in the city of Mansoura, and his father al-Imam pasha Al-Imam was a wealthy businessman. Hassan al-Imam was persistent, open-minded, and interested in public events, especially in theatrical art events, due to the proliferation of theaters at that time, and the lack of widespread cinema. He was also a lover of music. He received his education at the Frere School in al-Kharnfash. Career Hassan Al-Imam began his career in the 1940s, and worked as an assistant director in a number of films such as ''Muhammad Ali Street'', ''Hassan and Hassan'', and ''Miss Boussa.'' He got his first directing opportunity in 1946 with his first film, ''Angels in Hell'' (1947). In the following year, he directed the film ... [...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 Cinema of Egypt, 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 100 Egyptian films, 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 patrioti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soad Hosny
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Youssef Wahbi
Youssef Abdallah Wahbi Qotb ( ar, يوسف عبد الله هديب وهبي قطب) (14 July 1902 – 17 October 1982) was an Egyptian stage and film actor and director, a leading star of the 1930s and 1940s and one of the most prominent Egyptian stage actors of any era, who also served on the jury of the Cannes Film Festival in 1946. He was born to a high state official in Egypt but renounced his family's wealth and traveled to Rome in the 1920s to study theatre. Besides his stage work, he acted in about 50 films, starting with ''Awlad al-Zawat'' (''Sons of Aristocrats''; 1932) to "Iskanderiya... lih?" (''Alexandria... Why?'', 1978). Early life Youssef Wahbi was born into an Egyptian family of Egyptian origin, from the Fayoum region. He was named after the place where he was born, ''Bahr Yussef'' and his father worked as an inspector in the Ministry of Water Resources and Irrigation. Career In 1926, Turkish filmmaker Vedat Örfi Bengü approached Wahbi to play the r ... [...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, agr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston, 2011. Having emerged in the 1st century, it is named after the Arab people; the term "Arab" was initially used to describe those living in the Arabian Peninsula, as perceived by geographers from ancient Greece. Since the 7th century, Arabic has been characterized by diglossia, with an opposition between a standard prestige language—i.e., Literary Arabic: Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) or Classical Arabic—and diverse vernacular varieties, which serve as mother tongues. Colloquial dialects vary significantly from MSA, impeding mutual intelligibility. MSA is only acquired through formal education and is not spoken natively. It is the language of literature, official documents, and formal writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transliteration
Transliteration is a type of conversion of a text from one script to another that involves swapping letters (thus ''trans-'' + '' liter-'') in predictable ways, such as Greek → , Cyrillic → , Greek → the digraph , Armenian → or Latin → . For instance, for the Modern Greek term "", which is usually translated as " Hellenic Republic", the usual transliteration to Latin script is , and the name for Russia in Cyrillic script, "", is usually transliterated as . Transliteration is not primarily concerned with representing the sounds of the original but rather with representing the characters, ideally accurately and unambiguously. Thus, in the Greek above example, is transliterated though it is pronounced , is transliterated though pronounced , and is transliterated , though it is pronounced (exactly like ) and is not long. Transcription, conversely, seeks to capture sound rather than spelling; "" corresponds to in the International Phonetic Alphabet. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Sea
The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; Tigrinya: ቀይሕ ባሕሪ ''Qeyih Bahri''; ) is a seawater inlet of the Indian Ocean, lying between Africa and Asia. Its connection to the ocean is in the south, through the Bab el Mandeb strait and the Gulf of Aden. To its north lie the Sinai Peninsula, the Gulf of Aqaba, and the Gulf of Suez (leading to the Suez Canal). It is underlain by the Red Sea Rift, which is part of the Great Rift Valley. The Red Sea has a surface area of roughly 438,000 km2 (169,100 mi2), is about 2250 km (1398 mi) long, and — at its widest point — 355 km (220.6 mi) wide. It has an average depth of 490 m (1,608 ft), and in the central ''Suakin Trough'' it reaches its maximum depth of . The Red Sea also ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amina Rizk
Amina Rizk ( ar, أمينة رزق; April 15, 1910 – August 24, 2003) was a classic Egyptian actress who appeared in around 208 artworks including more than 70 movies between 1928 and 1996. She was calm in her later years, but described as a clown when she was young. Life Amina Rizk came from a poor rural area. She and her aunt, Amina Mohamed, moved to Cairo with their mothers; the pair were locked in the house after their first theatrical performance. She was popular for her roles as the kind-hearted mother in plays and films, appearing in major pictures such as '' Doa al karawan'' in 1959 in which she appeared alongside actors such as Faten Hamama and Ahmed Mazhar, and Bidaya wa nihaya, in which she played the role of the Mother to Omar Sharif, Farid Shawqi and Sanaa Gamil Sanaa Gamil ( ar, سناء جميل), born Thoraya Youssef Atallah ( ar, ثريا يوسف عطالله) (April 27, 1930 – December 22, 2002), was an Egyptian actress. Born to a Coptic Orth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adly Kasseb
Adly Kasseb عدلى كاسب (full name: Adly Abdel Hamid Kasseb) (April 21, 1918 – September 13, 1978) was an Egyptian actor who acted in many movies and plays. His talent was recognized since he was a child and has grown over the years. He graduated from the faculty of Applied Arts then worked as a teacher in the faculty of Engineering for 12 years. When the Institute of Dramatic Art opened he joined it and earned a Bachelor of Dramatic Art. He resigned his job in the faculty of Engineering and worked as an acting teacher in the Ministry of Education, he was promoted until he reached Undersecretary of the Ministry. He joined a lot of theater teams, starting with "The Modern Theater (national)" then "Youssef Wahby" then "Ismail Yasin " then "El Rayhany" then "Hassan Yousef" then "El Rayhany" again which he acted in for about 30 years. He was nicknamed "the actor of the 1000 faces" or "the cinema demon" for his ability to act any role personifying the different types of perso ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nagwa Fouad
Nagwa Fouad ( arz, نجوى فؤاد, Arabic: ; born Awatef Mohamed Agami ( arz, عواطف محمد) on 17 January 1939) is an Egyptian belly dancer and actress. She has appeared in around fifty Egyptian films. Family Nagwa was born as Awatef Mohamed Agami, in Alexandria to a middle-class Egyptian family from Agami region. She then changed her Egyptian folk name (Awatef) to a more artistic sounding one. Career She began belly dancing in the early 1960s. In 1976, the composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab wrote an entire musical piece exclusively for her belly dancing show titled ''"Amar Arbatashar"'' (a popular Egyptian slang term meaning the ''"full Moon of the 14th (day)"''), it was her transition from traditional oriental dance to a choreographed stage performances. After Fouad's marriage to Ahmed Fouad Hassan, the prominent Egyptian violin player, composer and conductor, she danced in the stage show ''Adwoua El-Madina'' (City Lights), which had featured such performers as Abdel Ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian Black-and-white Films
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 c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
