Biographies: Nourhan - Actor

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A Lebanese actress, born to Circassian parents in 1922. They gave birth to their children in Damascus before the father died within 40 days of the birth of Nourhan, and then the mother only 7 years later, so the daughter moved to boarding school. Nourhan was married at the age of thirteen to a Lebanese language and literature professor. She convinced her husband to complete his studies abroad, and the two moved to live in Cairo, where she would study music before the city opened the doors of fame to her thanks to the popularity of Lebanese and Syrian folk music that was previously unknown. Then Nourhan married Mohamed Salman, whom she met in the movie Good and Evil. She moved a lot between Cairo, Damascus, Aleppo, and Baghdad, and sang in restaurants and clubs for certain periods before returning to Beirut and settling on the Lebanese radio at the beginning of the fifties, where she sang for a large number of composers, including Mohammad Mohsen, Philemon Wehbe, and Halim El Roumi. She's known for Laila in Iraq (1949) and Son of the East (1945). She died on 28 February 2022.

• 17 December 2023
• Shaimaa Saied