About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Egyptian ballet dancers, Egyptian cartoonists, Egyptian dancers, Egyptian erotic artists, Egyptian painters, Egyptian sculptors, Nelly Mazloum, Gazbia Sirry, Nicos Nicolaides, Farouk Hosny, Hussein El Gebaly, Salah Jahin, Hassan Mohamed Hassan, Abdel Hadi Al Gazzar, Samia Gamal, Yehia Dessouki, Hanan Tork, Isaac Fanous, Fathi Hassan, Ghawazi, Farida of Egypt, Margaret Nakhla, George Bahgoury, Ghada Amer, Kamal Amin, Taheyya Kariokka, Injy Aflatoun, Nadia Gamal, Hany Armanious, Nagwa Fouad, Tahia Halim, Kuchuk Hanem, Naima Akef, Moataz Nasr, Dina Talaat, Hussein Bikar, Chafik Charobim, Mohamed Sobhi, Gomaa Frahat, Georges Hanna Sabbagh, Mahmoud Mokhtar, Salah Taher, Mustafa Hussein, Evelyn Ashamallah, Dhimah, Fifi Abdou, Ahmed Toughan, Samir Elmesirri, Zeinat Olwi, Tarek Shahin, Ahmed Kadry, Amru Salahuddien, Seif Wanly, Adham Wanly. Excerpt: Nelly Mazloum (1929 - 21 February 2003) was an Egyptian actress, dancer and choreographer of Greek origin who taught ballet, modern dance, folkloric Egyptian dances and artistic oriental dance. Known for her sense of humor, she is famous for her role in the movie Ibn Hamidu along with Ismail Yasseen. Nelly-Catherine Mazloum-Calvo was born in Alexandria, Egypt into a Greek family. Her father was an Italian from Naples and her mother a Greek from Asia Minor. Her father created costume jewellery and her mother was an able pianist. They owned a hotel across the street from the Alambra theatre. Mazloum suffered from paralysis of the legs at the age of two and walked again after years of loving care by a paediatrician and his wife, a ballet teacher. That's where she learned to dance. At the age of five, she auditioned at the theatre and started a dance career as a child prodigy, from 1939 to 1945, working in two shows a day, all year: in Alexandria in the summer months, in Cairo...
