This is a 39" x 53" two-piece Egyptian poster designed by Wahib Fahmy
and Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1970 Houssam El-Din Mustafa
film Duel at Alamein AKA Al-Ashrar written by Houssam
El-Din Mustafa and Faisal Nada and starring Rushdy Abaza as Khaled.
Plot summary: In Egypt's northern Sahara at Alamein, the site of a
major World War II battle between the allied and axis powers, a small
gang of smugglers is transporting a large sum in stolen US dollars to
an American client. As they do this, tourists looking at graves and
broken war machinery are woven into the narrative while romance, greed
and betrayal appear among the smugglers to keep the story on edge.
Cast and crew: Faisal Nada, Aly Kheiralla, Abdel Khalek Saleh,
Nahed Sherif, Rushdy Abaza, Adel Adham, Ibrahim Khan, Houssam El-Din
Mustafa, Salah Nazmi, Aly Kheiralla, Amira
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Hassan Mazhar Gasour
and Mohammad Abdel Aziz for the 1966 Atef Salem film Khan
al-Khalili based on a novel by Naguib Mahfouz and starring Samira
Ahmed as Nawal. Plot Summary: The Akef family moved to Khan
al-Khalili. They were the parents, the big brother Ahmed Akef [Imad
Hamdi] who was over 40 and the little brother Rushdy [Hassan Youssef]
who was completing his studies. A variety of personality types lived
in Khan al-Khalili such as the teacher Nunu who lived his life with no
tomorrow and ran sentences together when he spoke. In the midst of
the air raids during World War II the people in the neighborhood took
refuge in the air raid shelter. Ahmed loved his good-looking neighbor
Nawal [Samira Ahmed] and tried to get close to her. His mother talked
about his feelings for her. He felt he had hopes. When Nawal fell in
love with Rushdy, met him and went for a walk with him Rushdy went
through a crisis within and came down with tuberculosis. He thought
of Ahmad and the sacrifice of his love for Nawal. Ahmad began to get
involved with the Khan al-Khalil society and had an encounter with the
teacher Nunu's nihilism. Rushdy's illness worsened and he died.
Nawal was stricken by Rushdy's death and the family decided to move
from Khan al-Khalili to another area.
Cast and crew: Naguib Mahfouz, Atef Salem, Samira Ahmed, Imad
Hamdi, Hassan Youssef, Taheya Cariocca, Abdel Waress Assar, Mohamed
Reda, George Sidhum, Tewfik El Dekn, Amal Zayed, Abdel Khalek Saleh,
Abdel Aziz Fahmy, Mustafa Samy
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by an unknown artist for
an undated rerelease of the 1963 Niazi Mostafa film I Am the
Fugitive [ana al-hareb] written by Abdel Hay Adib and starring
Farid Shawqi as Hamdi. Plot summary: Hamdi was working as a
corrections officer in a prison. He had a child afflicted with
cerebral palsy in need of expensive treatment. When Hamdi was
transporting four narcotics smugglers one of them tried to escape and
Hamdi killed him. The dead man's family learned about Hamdi's
need for money and tried to bribe him to get revenge.
Cast and crew: Farid Shawqi, Niazi Mostafa, Abdel Hay Adib, Zahrat
El-Ola, Salah Mansour, Mahmoud Moursy, Mohamed Hamdi, Masud Isa, Abdel
Khalek Saleh, Youssef Chaban, Nimat Mukhtar
Pictured is a US 27" x 41" one-sheet poster for the 1963 Wolf Rilla
film Cairo based on a novel by W.R. Burnett, screenplay by Joan
Scott and starring George Sanders as The Major. This film is a remake
of the 1950 John Huston film The Asphalt Jungle based on the
novel by W.R. Burnett. The woman pictured on the poster is the film's
principal dancer, Nahed Sabri. Plot summary: On a visit to Cairo fresh
out of a German prison, the Major tries to resurrect an old plan to
steal the jewels from the Tutankhamen exhibit at the Cairo Museum but
there are unexpected problems when he tries to abscond after the
robbery.
Cast and crew: Wolf Rilla, W. R. Burnett, George Sanders, Richard Johnson, Faten Hamama, John Meillon, Ahmed Mazhar, Eric Pohlmann, Walter Rilla, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Salah Nazmi, Shouweikar, Mona, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Said Abu Bakr, Salah Mansour, Mohamed El Sayed, Youssef Chaban, Ezzat El Alaili, Mohamed Abdel Rahman, Nahed Sabri, Aziza Hassan
Pictured is an original 27" x 39" Egyptian poster made to promote the
1960 127-minute Salah Abouseif black-and-white film The Dead among
the Living [bedaya wa nehaya] based on a novel by Naguib Mahfouz
with screenplay by Salah Ezzedine, dialogue by Ahmed Shawqi and Kamel
Abdel Salam and cinematography by Kamal Korayem. Plot summary: The
head of the household died leaving the family suffering from hardship
and deprivation. The oldest son Hassan [Farid Shawqi] ended up living
in a depraved neighborhood dealing in drugs and women. Hussein [Kamal
Hussein] the middle son took work with his middle school diploma to
provide an opportunity for his brother Hassanein [Omar Sharif] to
complete his studies and go to the war college. The daughter Nafisa
[Sanaa Gamil] was without beauty and found herself driven out of the
life of Soliman [Salah Mansour] the grocer after sinning with him.
She continued on this disreputable path without any friends. She
helped her brother Hassanein and her mother [Amina Rizk] with small
amounts of money she had acquired. Hassanein graduated as an officer.
He turned his back on his family, his fiancee Bayeha [Amal Farid] and
his social milieu and rose to associate with the wealthy class through
marriage. Hassan returned to his family broken-hearted, wounded and
driven out of the police force. At the same time Hassanein was
summoned to the police station because his sister had been accused of
debauchery. Hassanein was in denial at first, but then knocked Nafisa
down, kicked dirt on her and finally goaded her into drowning herself
to eliminate the scandal after he was forced to acknowledge her guilt.
This is the confrontation depicted on the poster. Then when it was too
late he regretted her death, thought about his own life, saw his own
world in ruins and jumped into the Nile himself.
This film is on film critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Salah Abouseif, Farid Shawqi, Amina Rizk, Amal Zayed, Sanaa Gamil, Kamal Hussein, Salah Mansour, Omar Sharif, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Kamal Korayem, Naguib Mahfouz, Amina Rizk, Amal Farid, Hamed Morsi, Ahmed Shoukry, Souraya Fakhry, Mokhtar Hussein, Mohamed Hamdi, Abdel Moniem Ismail, Kamal Karim, Salah Ezzedine, Ahmed Shawqi, Kamel Abdel Salam
Pictured is a 32" x 42" Egyptian poster designed by Studio Adly to
promote the 1961 153-minute Henry Barakat black-and-white
film There is a Man in Our House [fi baitina ragol] starring
Omar Sharif based on a story by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus with screenplay by
Youssef Issa and Henry Barakat, dialogue by Youssef Issa and
cinematography by Hesham Wadid Serri. Plot summary: Ibrahim [Omar
Sharif] assassinates the prime minister who has been collaborating
with the imperialists, then asks his friend Mohey [Hassan Youssef] to
hide him. Mohey's father does not welcome the fugitive, but his
sisters are happy to help Ibrahim contact his political friends.
Ibrahim eventually escapes, rejoins the rebellion in Egypt and is
killed in an attack on a British base.
This film is on film critic Ahmad Al-Hadari's 2007 list of the 100 most important Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Zubaida Tharwat, Henry Barakat, Ihsan Abd al-Qudus, Youssef Issa, Rushdy Abaza, Omar Sharif, Zahrat El-Ola, Hassan Youssef, Tewfik El Dekn, Hesham Wadid Serri, Hussein Riad, Nahed Samir, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Youssef Chaban, Abdel Moneim Bassioni, Khalil Badreddine, Zaki Abel Magid, Sherif Hamdya
This is a picture of a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Wahib
Fahmy to promote the 1969 102-minute Hassan El-Seify black-and-white
film Struggle of the Professionals [sera' al-mohtarefin]
starring Rushdy Abaza and Naglaa Fathy based on story, screenplay and
dialogue by Fayek Ismail with cinematography by Mohamed Emara. Plot
summary: Gharabawy Bey [Mahmoud El-Meliguy] is the owner of a fishing
fleet in the Abu Qir district of the Governorate of Alexandria. He is
actually a smuggler being sought by an officer named Wahid [Rushdy
Abaza], working undercover disguised as a Dr. Fathy, who is trying to
get close to the smuggler's daughter Leila [Naglaa Fathy]. There is a
temporary love triangle when Garabawy Bey's wife Ashgan [Nagwa Fouad]
also tries to rekindle an old romance with Officer Wahid, but after
Wahid has a one-man fist fight against the entire gang and is
temporarily a captive on one of their boats, the police arrest the
smugglers and Leila and Wahid end up getting together.
Cast and crew: Mohamed Emara, Rushdy Abaza, Naglaa Fathy, Nagwa Fouad, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Tewfik El Dekn, Hassan El-Seify, Nazim Shaarawy, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Fayek Ismail, Mohamed Emara, Ibrahim Saafan, Kawsar Shafik, Samir Shadid, Iskandar Mansi, Seif Allah Mokhtar, Abbas Rahmy
This is a 27" x 39" undated Egyptian rerelease poster designed by an
unknown artist to promote the 1963 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 82-minute
black-and-white film The Secret of the Runaway [serr
al-harebah] starring Soad Hosny based on a story by Hassan Rashad with
screenplay and dialogue by Fayek Ismail and cinematography by Mahmoud
Fahmy.
Cast and crew: Soad Hosny, Shukry Sarhan, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Nagah Salam, Hassan Rashad, Mahmoud Fahmy, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Fayek Ismail, Linda Badawy, Fawzi Darwish, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Souraya Fakhry, Qatquta
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman to
promote the 1964 Houssam El-Din Mustafa 111-minute black-and-white
film The Search [al-tariq] starring Rushdy Abaza based on a
story by Naguib Mahfouz with secreenplay and dialogue by Hussein Helmy
and cinematograpny by Wadid Serri. Plot summary: Saber al-Rahimi
[Rushdy Abaza] resisted when his mother [Taheya Cariocca] was telling
him while she was in prison about her scandalous past with his wealthy
respectable father. It became his goal to find that father to save
him from ruin and give him support and security. He left Alexandria
to live in Cairo and on his long trip looking for his unknown father
Saber found himself on his general life journey. He met Karima
[Shadia] the wife of the owner of the hotel where he stayed. She was
a woman softened by lust. Saber wooed her and at the same time he met
Elham [Soad Hosny] at the newspaper Al-Akhbar al-Yom where he
placed an advertisement looking for his father. A tender love story
developed between the two of them but the sensous side developed
between him and Karima, who came to his room at night and asked him to
kill her husband [Hassan el Baroudi] to leave them free. He agreed to
kill the husband but the police suspected him and went looking for
him. Karima helped him flee and Elham tried to save him but the
police lost no time arresting him and he was sentenced to death.
According to film critic Sa'ad al-Din Tawfiq this is one of the top
100 Egyptian films.
Cast and crew: Rushdy Abaza, Shadia, Soad Hosny, Taheya Cariocca, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Naguib Mahfouz, Wadid Serri, Hassan el Baroudi, Mohammad Tawfik, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Hussein Helmy, Ahmed Louxor
Pictured is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Abdel Rahman to
promote the 1970 Abdel Hamid Al-Shazly 90-minute black-and-white
film Dreadful Hours [al-saat al-rahiba] starring Nabila Ebeid
based on a story by Nabil Nawar and screenplay and dialogue by Yayha
Tadros with cinematography by Gamal El-Tabei. The film was produced
and distributed by Gamal El-Tabei Films. Plot smmmary: Ramzy was a
young man who worked at his corporate job seriously and with
discipline. He lived in a humble apartment with his sister Sanaa, a
good and simple girl. Shawkat Bey tried to push Ramzy into a projects
office to facilitate his embezzlement activity. He issued an order
appointing Ramzy director of an office so he could collaborate with
him. He also introduced him to an abnormal girl so she could catch
him in her traps. Ramzy proposed to her and discovered the extent of
her demands and dreams about such things as villas and automobiles.
She tried to push him into accepting bribes and Shawkat Bey tried to
get rid of him by catching him on an accusation of accepting a bribe so he
could have him thrown into prison. Ramzy endured the prison sentence;
when he was released he found his sister had committed suicide after
one of his friends had assaulted her. Then he sought revenge against
the manager who had gotten him thrown in prison and the friend who had
killed his sister.
Cast and crew: Nabila Ebeid, Ahmed Ramzy, Youssef Chaban, Shams El-Barudy, Nawal Abul Foutouh, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Abdel Hamid Al-Shazly, Gamal El-Tabei, Haleh Al-Shawareby, Mahmoud Sobhy, Rafat El-Tabei, Salah Dessouky, Amin Antar
This is an original Egyptian stone litho poster designed by Marcel to
promote the 1964 Hassan Al Imam 125-minute color film A Thousand and
One Nights [الف ليلة وليلة] starring Shadia as Shahira with screenplay and dialogue by Mohamed
Moustapha Sami and cinematography by Abdelhalim Nasr. Plot summary:
Hassan [Farid Shawqi] the beggar and his son Shahtut frequented fairs, where Hassan
did tricks. They were often away from home. His wife Shahira worked
in his absence and entertained her paramour, a genie. However Shahtut
discovered the genie's presence once when he come home unexpectedly.
He warned his mother he would say somthing to his father. The lover
seized him and threatened him, and the boy died in his hands. Shahira
fled with the paramour to the desert and he began attacking caravans.
He was able to get away from the caliph's men. Shahira had a baby but
lost the way with him in the desert. She left him alone in the desert
with half an amulet, the other half of which was with the paramour.
The caliph's soldiers took him and named him Kazem. Meanwhile Hassan
married Ka'ba al-Ghazal and had a baby named Hayat. The soldiers
declared a curfew and were beating the people to drive them into their
homes. Hayat was knocked to the ground, but she was saved by Fotouh.
She thought he was a beggar but discovered he was a gardener in the
sultan's palace and fell in love with him. However, Nourhan, a lady
from the palace, was eavesdropping on the conversations between Fotouh
and Hayat. Kazem grew up and because of his intrigues he bacame a
minister who took lovers, among them Zubayda and Nourhan, who brought
him news from the palace. The caliph made a plan for his son
Noureddin to masquerade as one of the people and present himself to
Hayat as the gardener named Fotouh if he was not in agreement with the
behavior of his minister Kazem. A caravan came into Baghdad owned by
Sheikh Gawal. Hassan the beggar knew him as the old genie enemy who
had killed his son, and decided to take revenge against him. The
paramour accused him of theft and asked the sultan to cut off his
hand, but the caliph died and his son Noureddin took the throne. Hayat
was surprised when she learned the new caliph was the palace gardener.
The new caliph revoked all the orders Kazem had issued. Zubayda
offered to kill the caliph by means of Hassan. Kazem released Hassan
and asked him for the hand of his daughter Hayat and to kill the
caliph during the dance that would take place at the celebration.
However Nourhan intervened at the last minute and intercepted the
knife thrust Hassan had directed at the caliph. When Hassan was
caught he said it was the genie who had incited him to commit this
crime; he had taken advantage of the fact that he was in the same
prison, killed him and fled. Kazem fell in love with Hayat. This
angered Zubayda, who decided to take revenge. She allowed Hassan into
the palace, who dicovered that Kazem was carrying the other part of
the amulet, learned he was the son of the genie and attacked him.
However Kazem did not die and he ordered that Hassan and his son be
burned in the public square. The caliph returned from his journey at
that time, revoked Kazem's order and asked Hayat to marry him.
Cast and crew: Shadia, Farid Shawqi, Leila Fawzi, Hassan Al Imam, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Youssef Chaban, Fakher Fakher, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Nahed Sabri, Mohammad Awad, Aleyah Abdel Monem, Gawaher, Salwa Mahmoud, Zein El-Ashmawy, Mohammad Sabih
This is a promotional poster for designed by Ahmed Hamed for the 1961 Hassan El-Seify 90-minute
black-and-white film Fattouma starring Hind Rostom with story,
screenplay and dialogue by Zaki Saleh and cinematography by Alvisy
Orphanily. Plot summary: Fattouma (Hind Rostom) told her boyfriend
Dr. Wahid Farid (Kamal Al-Shennawi) that her husband had left her a message
saying he intended to commit suicide. Wahid advised her to leave the
message beside the body so the police would not be suspicious. She
asked him to do this himself. He went to the home of the deceased and
was surprised to find him threatening him with a pistol instead of dead.
He took out his own pistol and killed the husband of his mistress. He
told the police he had known Fattouma long ago when she almost committed
suicide, but Dr. Wahid had given her hope and asked her to marry him. He
spent the night with her and the next morning he left a message with her
but the wind blew it out the window before she saw it. When she woke up she decided to
kill herself. Then she married Khorshid (Mahmoud El-Meliguy) so he would
take care of her son. Wahid went back, met her by chance and became her
lover. Fattouma's account to the police was from a different point of
view. She said when her husband knew Wahid had returned from abroad he
invented the story to blackmail him to get money for his son. She claimed
she told her lover about the killing of her husband so he could face him,
and that she had changed the pistol because of the extent of the danger to
her lover. The lovers were then accused, but the attorney was able to
prove they had not collaborated in the killing.
Cast and crew: Hind Rostom, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Ahmed Hamed, Hassan El-Seify, Zaki Saleh, Khayria Ahmed, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Orlando, Hoda Shamseddine, Alvisy Orphanily
Pictured is a three-piece promotional poster for the 1965 130-minute
black-and-white Helmy Salim film The Entire Life Story, with story and
screenplay by Helmy Salim and cinematography by Wahid Farid. Plot
Summary: The musician Farid (Farid Al Atrache) had many friends who
spent the night at his home. He lived his life fully. Nadia (Faten
Hamama) came to his house one day to tell him she was the daughter of
his professor who had just died. Farid asked her to stay at his
house. There was no doubt that the presence of the girl in his house
would be quite undignified for him and would tarnish his reputation;
this caused him to have a heart attack. Nadia began taking care of him
and nursing him; feelings of love grew in one of them, and that was
the musician. However Nadia loved Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy), Farid's
little brother who had returned from abroad. Their affairs fell into
disarray as the love between the two of them grew, while Farid tried
to reveal his feelings to Nadia without knowing about his brother's
feelings for Nadia. A friend tried to convince Farid that she loved
him and Farid's best friend Sami defended her in that. However Laila
(Laila Fawzi) always felt frustrated while Farid was always distracted
from Laila and tried to give the reasons why he loved Nadia, who ran
away with her love and by chance went to the city of Alexandria for a
honeymoon. Farid met them at the train station to bless them and
acknowledge their love.
Cast and crew: Helmy Halim, Farid Al Atrache, Leila Fawzi, Faten Hamama, Ahmed Ramzy, Maha Sabry, Wahid Farid, Ahmed Ramzy, Abdel Moneim Ibrahim, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Kamel Anwar
This is a promotional poster designed by Abdel Aziz for the 1962
Houssam El-Din Mustafa 100-minute black-and-white film Days without
Love [ayyam bila hob] starring Nadia Lutfi with story, screenplay
and dialogue by Fayek Ismail and cinematography by Klelio. Plot
summary: Two friends from Port Said met at a university. The girl was
Nadia [Nadia Lutfi] who had a bachelor's degree in literature and was
the daughter of the wealthy Mr. Shaker [Abdel Khalek Saleh]. The boy
Hosny Abdel Dayem [Kamal Al-Shennawi] had a bachelor's degree in
engineering and was the son of a poor fisherman. The two of them
returned to Port Said, where struggles awaited them. The father
controlled the livelihoods of the fishermen and wanted to marry Nadia
to his nephew Rafat [Youssef Chaban]. Hosny's father [Abdel Aziz
Khorshed] suffered under the oppression imposed upon him with the help
of commandos by the father of Nadia Abdel Dayem. Hosny refused to work
at his job in Cairo and decided to remain in Port Said to confront
Abdul Dayem. Nadia offered him a job on her father's boat but Hosny
refused. Meanwhile both the love and the confrontation continued as
the workers united against Abdel Dayem. Nadia decided to run away
with her beloved but the commandos caught her and she agreed to marry
Rafat in exchange for them leaving Hosny alone. A factory was built
to preserve fish where Hosny worked. Nadia broke her engagement with
Rafat and joined Hosny, who was on his way back to Cairo after the
workers had succeeded in stopping capitalist oppression.
Cast and crew: Kamal Al-Shennawi, Nadia Lutfi, Houssam El-Din Mustafa, Klelio, Fayek Ismail, Mahmoud El-Sabbaa, Youssef Chaban, Nahed Sabri, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Lotfi Abdel Hamid, Mary Ezzedin, Saham Fathy, Mohamed Taha, Ali Kamel, Abdel Salam Mohamed, Qadriah Kamel
This is a 27" x 39" Egyptian poster designed by Mohammad Aziz and
Hassan Mazhar Gasour for the 1970 El Sayed Bedir film Beauty of the
Airport based on story, screenplay and dialogue by Abdul Rahim
Abol Aouf and starring Naglaa Fathy as Jill. Plot summary: On the
return flight from Beirut the lawyer Fouad (Hassan Youssef) met a
pretty girl (Naglaa Fathy) who called herself Jill. They separated at
the Cairo airport. Fouad went home and Jill went to a hotel in the
city. At the airport the police found an unclaimed briefcase filled
with dollars and investigated the source of the funds. Downtown the
gang was looking everywhere for Jill -- who did the gang's accounting
-- intending to torture her to make her tell them the location of the
briefcase. The leader of the gang demanded that she be released so
they could follow her and find the briefcase. Jill feared for her
life and contacted the attorney Fouad for help, claiming she was being
threatened with murder because of an inheritance from the family of
her deceased husband. Fouad befriended her and allowed her to stay
with him. The gang learned where she was staying and seized her a
second time in an automobile owned by the father of Fouad's fiance
Amal. Fouad was worried about the possibility of being associated
with the gang when he read a report about Jill's struggle in dark
circumstances. Meanwhile the security men were tracking the gang's
movements and ordered that they be surrounded and caught before they
could flee to Beirut. The innocence of Amal's father was proven and
it was established that he was not part of the gang; indeed it was
proven that the leader of the gang was the one who had been driving
his automobile.
Cast and crew: Naglaa Fathy, Hassan Youssef, El Seyed Bedir, Aly Hassan, Abdel Khalek Saleh, Samia Shukry, Shafik Noureddin, Wahid Ezat
A Thousand and One Nights [alf layla wa layla] (1964) - (Shadia) Style A Egyptian film poster
In this film director Hassan Al Imam, screenplay and dialogue writer
Mohamed Moustapha Sami and cinematographer Abdelhalim Nasr join forces
with the help of an all-star cast to play the role of the mythical
storyteller Scheherezade as she spins in the language of cinema one of
her many tales of desert mystery, magic, palace intrigue, mendicant
effrontery and sexual desire. The poster was designed by Mohammad
Abdel Aziz.
Love in August (1966) - (Fouad El-Mohandes) three-piece Egyptian poster
This 65x39" poster for a 1966 Hassan El-Seify film was designed by Wahib Fahmy and Abdel Aziz, printed by Al-Nasr printers of Cairo and distributed by the General Company for the Distribution and Marketing of Cinematic Films [sherket al-'am li-tawdi' wa-ard al-aflam al-sinemaia]. The actors in the painting are Fouad El-Mohandes holding the undersized umbrella, and Shouweikar whom he is attempting to shelter. The umbrella seems much too small for blocking either sun or rain, and seems also to symbolize the suitor's hopeless situation. I haven't seen the film but have read that the character Farid (El-Mohandes) is trying to fill the shoes of the late husband of Salwa (Shouweikar), who was killed in a traffic accident on their wedding night. Apparently he manages to do this because they eventually marry (the required happy ending for this type of Egyptian film).
