Today, Wednesday, the artist’s birthday Siraj MunirHe was born on July 15, 1904, in Cairo, specifically in the ancient Bab Al-Khalq neighborhood, and his father is Abdel-Wahab Bey Hassan, and he was director of education in knowledge, and his sisters are film directors Hassan and Fatin Abdel-Wahab.
After finishing high school, the family sent him to study medicine in Germany at her expense, but the money that was sent is not enough, which forced him to work next to his studies, his conditions gave him to work in one of the movie studios, according to what was stated in the book “black and white” by Ashraf Baidas.
The hobby of acting started at Siraj Munir after a funny incident in 1922, when some of his friends invited him to an evening in one of the houses, and when he arrived at the intended house, he was surprised that the evening was a theater erected in the monsters of the house, and the attendees participated in the representation of one of the plays, and Siraj Munir was The only spectator, and this incident left an impact on himself, as he was born inside him the acting hobby, and thus he became a member of the school’s acting team.
Seraj Mounir began working in the cinema kompars in silent German films. This naturally affected his studies, which he left after a short time and devoted himself to art on foot between Berlin studios, and there he met the director Muhammad Karim, and after a year, they wanted to leave for Munich, where he was in that period My activity opened and Stephen Rosti.
During the presence of Siraj Munir in Germany, Siraj Munir received a telegram from an Egyptian theater troupe that summoned him to work with her, weeks before the start of the Second World War, and the telegram was like a savior from captivity for him, as Germany started the war to enter Austria, and the situation worsened, and not one Egyptian was able to Out of Germany only after six years, except that he escaped from the families with this cable.
With the start of World War II, Siraj Munir decides to return to Cairo after he lost a dream to become a doctor, and was accepted as a member of the Ramses Theater, and after a while he moves to the government band, and the first opportunity in the cinema comes, and he is assigned a role in the movie “Zainab” in 1930. So the business would be back after that.
He joined the Naguib Al-Rihani squad, and he managed to fill the void after Naguib’s departure by standing next to its members and reuniting them, and Siraj Munir stormed the field of production in 1953 AD, and presented the movie “The Rule of Qaraqosh”, starring Zaki Rustom, directed by his brother Fatin Abdel Wahab, and the film exceeded 40 thousand pounds, but he He did not earn more than 10 thousand pounds, and he had to mortgage his villa as a result of this loss, which caused him a chest angina, according to the book “black and white”.
During an artistic journey with Naguib Al-Rihani in Alexandria to present one of the shows there, the show ends, and he returns to his home, making a phone call to his wife, artist Mimi Shakeeb, informing her of his arrival, then placing the telephone to meet his Lord.
And their story is considered one of the most famous love stories in Egyptian cinema, known as Mimi Shakib in the movie (Ibn al-Shaab) in 1934 and he was associated with and loved her, but his family objected to his marriage to her because she is divorced and has a son from her ex-husband, after several years he joined the Naguib Al-Rihani theater group to meet again with Mimi Shakib, their love is renewed, and Naguib Al-Rihani interferes with the two families to convince them of their marriage, and the marriage took place between them and they lived happily for 10 years until he passed away from life and Mimi Shakeeb was injured in a bad psychological state.
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