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Muna Wassef
Muna Wassef (also spelled Mona Wasef) (; born 9 February 1942) is a Syrian 1/2Kurdish/ 1/2 Christian Valley stage, film and television actress. She is also a United Nations Goodwill ambassador. She is an icon in the Arab world and the Middle East. Wassef is credited for acting alongside Salah Zulfikar at the prime of her career in '' Memory of a Night of Love'' (1973). Wassef had become the highest-paid actress in the Arab World since the end of the 1970s until the year 2000; now she is one of the highest-paid actresses. Wassef is the first Syrian woman to receive the Syrian Order of Civil Merit–Excellent Degree in 2009. Mona Wassef is most known internationally for starring in Al Hayba with Taim Hasan, streaming on Netflix. Background When she was 15 she worked as a cotton candy (Ghazl Al Banat) seller in the streets of Damascus. By the age of 16, she worked as a women's clothes saleswoman for one of Syria's most famous fashion designers at that time, and when she turne ...
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Damascus
Damascus ( , ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in the Levant region by population, largest city of Syria. It is the oldest capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth Holiest sites in Islam, holiest city in Islam. Known colloquially in Syria as () and dubbed, poetically, the "City of Jasmine" ( ), Damascus is a major cultural center of the Levant and the Arab world. Situated in southwestern Syria, Damascus is the center of a large metropolitan area. Nestled among the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean on a plateau above sea level, Damascus experiences an arid climate because of the rain shadow effect. The Barada, Barada River flows through Damascus. Damascus is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world. First settled in the 3rd millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750. Afte ...
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Army General
Army general or General of the army is the highest ranked general officer in many countries that use the French Revolutionary System. Army general is normally the highest rank used in peacetime. In countries that adopt the general officer four-rank system, it is the rank of a general commanding a field army. However, in some countries such as Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, which have adopted the three-rank system, the rank of army general is immediately above that of divisional general. As such, it is the rank of commander of an army corps or larger formations. The equivalent position in the Commonwealth, U.S., and several other countries is simply general, four-star rank, or informally " full general". Country specific Army general ranks by country * Army general (France) * Army general (East Germany) * Army general (Russia) ** Army general (Soviet Union) * Army general (Vietnam) * Army general (Kingdom of Yugoslavia) *General of the Army (United States) Army generals' army ...
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Irene Papas
Irene Papas or Irene Pappas (, ; born Eirini Lelekou (); 3 September 1929 – 14 September 2022) was a Greek actress and singer who starred in over 70 films in a career spanning more than 50 years. She gained international recognition through such popular award-winning films as '' The Guns of Navarone'' (1961), '' Zorba the Greek'' (1964) and '' Z'' (1969). She was a powerful protagonist in films including ''The Trojan Women'' (1971) and '' Iphigenia'' (1977). She played the title roles in '' Antigone'' (1961) and ''Electra'' (1962). She had a fine singing voice, on display in the 1968 recording ''Songs of Theodorakis''. Papas won Best Actress awards at the Berlin International Film Festival for ''Antigone'' and from the National Board of Review for ''The Trojan Women''. Her career awards include the Golden Arrow Award in 1993 at Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Golden Lion Award in 2009 at the Venice Biennale. Early life Papas was born as Eirini Lelekou (Ειρ ...
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Anthony Quinn
Manuel Antonio Rodolfo Quinn Oaxaca (April 21, 1915 – June 3, 2001), known as Anthony Quinn, was an American actor. He was known for his portrayal of earthy, passionate characters "marked by a brutal and elemental virility" in over 100 film, television and stage roles between 1936 and 2002. He was a two-time Academy Award winner, and was also nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two BAFTA Awards and a Tony Award. Quinn was born in Chihuahua City, Mexico, and was raised in El Paso, Texas and East Los Angeles. After stints as a boxer and an architect, he made his film debut in the Cecil B. DeMille Western ''The Plainsman'' in 1936. Initially typecast as a "heavy" and playing other minor parts as well, he was gradually cast in more substantial parts, including co-starring roles in Blood and Sand (1941 film), ''Blood and Sand'' (1941) and ''The Ox-Bow Incident'' (1943). He won his first Oscar, for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actor, for his po ...
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Mohammad, Messenger Of God
''The Message'' () originally known as ''Mohammed, Messenger of God'' () is a 1976 epic film directed and produced by Moustapha Akkad that chronicles the life and times of Muhammad, who is Depictions of Muhammad, never directly depicted. Released in separately filmed Arabic- and English-language versions, ''The Message'' serves as an introduction to the early history of Islam. The international ensemble cast includes Anthony Quinn, Irene Papas, Michael Ansara, Johnny Sekka, Michael Forest, André Morell, Garrick Hagon, Damien Thomas, and Martin Benson (actor), Martin Benson. It was an international co-production between Libya, Morocco, Lebanon, Syria and the UK. The film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Original Score, Best Original Score in the 50th Academy Awards, composed by Maurice Jarre, but lost the award to ''Star Wars (film), Star Wars'' (composed by John Williams). Plot The film begins with Muhammad sending an invitation to accept Islam to the surrounding rule ...
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Hind Bint Utbah
Hind bint Utba ibn Rabi'a () was an Arabs, Arab commander, the wife of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb and the mother of Mu'awiya I. Hind fought against the early Muslims and the Prophets and messengers in Islam, prophet Muhammad until converting to Islam herself in 630 after the conquest of Mecca. She is highly praised by Sunni Islam, Sunni Muslim sources for her military role at the Battle of the Yarmuk under caliph Umar, Umar ibn Khattab. Biography She was born in Mecca, the daughter of one of the most prominent leaders of the Quraysh (tribe), Quraysh, Utbah ibn Rabi'ah, Utba ibn Rabi'a, and of Safiya bint Umayya ibn Abd Shams. Hence Safiyya and Utba are cousins. She had two brothers: Abu Hudhayfa ibn Utba and Al-Walid ibn Utba ibn Rabi'a. She also had two sisters: Atika bint Utba and Umm Kulthum bint Utba. Her father and her paternal uncle Shaibah ibn Rabī‘a were among the chief adversaries of Islam who eventually were killed by Ali in the Battle of Badr. Hind's son was Mu'awiya. He ...
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Moustapha Akkad
Moustapha al Akkad (; July 1, 1930 – November 11, 2005) was a Syrian Americans, Syrian-American film producer and Film director, director, best known for producing the original series of ''Halloween (franchise), Halloween'' films and directing ''The Message (1976 film), The Message'' and ''Lion of the Desert''. He was killed along with his daughter Rima Al Akkad Monla in the 2005 Amman bombings.King Abdullah II of Jordan, ''Our Last Best Chance'', New York, New York: Viking Press, 2011, p. 251 He is also the cousin to television personality star Tareq Salahi. Early life Al Akkad was born on July 1, 1930, in Aleppo in the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon. He received his high school degree from the Aleppo College, Aleppo American College. His father, then a customs officer, gave him $200 and a copy of the Quran before he left for the United States to study film direction and production at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). Akkad spent a further thre ...
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Sun On A Hazy Day
''Al-Shams Fi Yawm Gha'em'' () is a 1986 Syrian language film release directed by the Syrian film Director Muhammad Shahin of 90 minutes duration. Plot This film is set in 1930s Syria's pre-independence days. Adil ( Jihad Sahd) was born into wealth yet empathizes with the poor, renounces his family and joins the "lower orders." He is given a crash course in Syrian customs by the Old Man ( Rafik El Soubeil). Adil is awakened sexually by the ingratiating prostitute (Muna Wassef). Adil's father finds his son, is envious of the Old Man's relationship with the boy and he exacts a terrible revenge on the old man by using his money and social position as protection from legal consequences. Cast * Muna Wassef - the "Prostitute" * Rafik El Soubeil - Old Man * Jihad Sahd - Adil * Jada El Charnaa - Nour
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Al-Mughamara
''Al-Mughamara'' () (''The Adventure'') is a Syrian film which was released in 1974. It was directed by the Syrian film Director Muhammad Shahin Muhammad (8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious and political leader and the founder of Islam. Muhammad in Islam, According to Islam, he was a prophet who was divinely inspired to preach and confirm the tawhid, monotheistic teachings of A .... The movie is 100 minutes long. Plot This film depends on history trying to give some contemporary interpretations by telling about the struggle over power between the Vizier and the Caliphate. The Vizier is trying to seek help from foreign armies to help him usurp power. One guard takes the chance and delivers his head to the Vizier so as to write a message of help to the enemies. The guard starts his adventure dreaming of wealth and beautiful slave girls. But he discovers too late that the Vizier had asked the enemy to cut the head of the message carrier. So the adventure ends with deat ...
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The Visit (1970 Film)
''The Visit'' (, ''Al-Ziyarah'') is a 1970 Syrian experimental short film directed by Iraqi-born filmmaker Kais al-Zubaidi. Described by al-Zubaidi as a " film-poem", ''The Visit'' is a collage film composed of photographs and drawings; poetry by Palestinian poets Mahmoud Darwish, Samih al-Qasim and Tawfiq Ziad; and two acted scenes. Cast * Muna Wassef * * * Hassan Baghdadi * Marwan Arnaout Themes and interpretations In 2018, author Nadia Yaqub analyzed the film's use of juxtaposition, writing that its incorporation of "verses from poets residing within Israel, the documentary images of violence from the 1967 Israeli occupation of Arab lands, and the acted scenes in indeterminate locations suggest the shared political context in which disparate Palestinians (and perhaps other Arabs) face oppression." Yaqub adds that the film's juxtaposition of photographs and acted scenes suggest "the dichotomy between documentary (in which violence is explicit and graphic) and imaginative (in ...
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