15 Facts About Aziza Amir

Aziza Amir was an Egyptian actress, producer, and screenwriter.

Aziza Amir was born Mofida Mohamed Ghoneim in Damiettia, Egypt on 17 December 1901.

Aziza Amir's dad worked at sea to provide for her family.

Aziza Amir changed her name due to the general outlook of Egyptian society on theatre women and how it would've negatively affected her family's reputation.

Aziza Amir then took the stage and started working as a theatre actress.

Aziza Amir acted in the theater until 1935, when she decided to focus her attention on films.

Egypt's film industry began to thrive in the 1940s; Aziza Amir began to write more screenplays as a result.

Aziza Amir starred in the silent film Fattah min Istanbul and played the role of Brezka in the film Ahl El Kahf.

Aziza Amir got into the film industry and stayed and worked in different factions of film production, be it producer, actress or director.

Aziza Amir produced the movie A Girl from Palestine about the Palestinian struggle with her husband Mahmoud Zulfikar and Soad Mohamed in the lead.

Aziza Amir introduced a dance by the famous dancer Bamba Kashar in Laila Dance was included in hundreds of Egyptian musical melodramas which followed this film.

Aziza Amir went on to star in almost two dozen films, many of them directed by her husband, the actor-director Mahmoud Zulfikar.

Aziza Amir remained active as a leading actress and producer up to her death at the age of fifty, when she passed from an un-described terminal illness.

However, this was not the reason that Aziza Amir replaced Turkish director Wadad Orfi with Stephane Rosti, rather his efforts on another film project were disastrous.

Aziza Amir flipped the national dialogue and themes of maternity upside down, strengthening her position as a working woman in the film industry.