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Filmmaker · Egypt

Aziza Amir

Died in 1952

Aziza Amir, whose real name was Moufida Mohammed Ghanem, was born in 1901, in Alexandria according to the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, into a family originally from Damietta according to Al Jazeera. She made her stage debut in 1925 in Youssef Wahbi's troupe, then founded the company Isis Film. She produced some twenty films from 1927 to 1949, directed two, and in 1948 devoted to Palestine the first Arab film on that subject. She died in 1952, on 28 February according to Al Jazeera.

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