Mais Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan Selim (, born October 31, 1982), better known as Mais Hamdan (), is a
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. Jordan is bordered by Syria to the north, Iraq to the east, Saudi Arabia to the south, and Israel and the occupied Palestinian ter ...
ian actress,
singer
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and
TV presenter.
Her sisters are
Mai Selim and Dana Hamdan.
Early life
Mais Hamdan was born in
Abu Dhabi
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, United Arab Emirates to a Jordanian father of
Palestinian
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*: "Palestine was part of the first wave of conquest following Muhammad's death in 632 CE; Jerusalem fell to the Caliph Umar in 638. The indigenous p ...
descent, and a Jordanian mother.
She graduated from the Faculty of Commerce – English Section,
Cairo University
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.
Career
Hamdan started her career through the comedian TV show ''CBM'' which was aired on
MBC,
she was also the presenter of the TV show ''Meyya Mesa'' and ''Sister Soup'' with her sisters
Mai and Dana.
In 2004, Hamdan started her TV career in ''Khareta Am Rakan'' and ''Sawalef Hareem'', and ''Qerqee'aan'' in the next year. 2006 witnessed her film debut, she played the role of "Jameela" in the Egyptian film ''Zarf Taree (Emergency Case)'' alongside
Ahmed Helmy and
Nour, and the
Saudi film ''
Keif al-Hal?''
In April 2020, her TV commercial for Cottonil was banned due to her mentioning of "underwear".
Filmography
Films
TV
References
External links
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Living people
Jordanian actresses
Jordanian television actresses
Jordanian film actresses
Jordanian women singers
1982 births
Jordanian people of Palestinian descent
Cairo University alumni