
Naima ElSoghier
Acting
Biography
Na’eema El Soghayar was born in Alexandria on the 31st of December, 1931. Her full name is Na’eema ‘Abd Al Maguid ‘Abd Al Gawad and she started out as a monologist performing next to her husband Mohamed El Soghayar before both worked together in Ibrahim Hamouda and Isma’il Yassin’s troupe. After her husband passed away, Na’eema transitioned to cinema where she portrayed the role of the cruel mother at times and the role of the cautious mother at other times. Amongst her most famous roles was a part in “al-Shaqa men Haqq al-Zawgah” (“The Wife Holds the Right to the Flat”). Na’eema devoted herself to cinema works and did not seek stage or television performances as vigorously.
Known For

The film is an adaptation of a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.
The Malatily Bathhouse

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أشجان

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ماشي يا دنيا ماشي

Ramadan is a poor young employee who wants to marry his fiancée Alia but can't afford it. He plans to steal and hide the employees' salary bag, then turn himself in and serve his sentence so that he can get married after. Upon his release, he finds out that another gang stole the money bag.
Ramadan On The Volcano

A philosophy teacher finds himself and his ethics surrounded by a corrupt society, and as he's mistaken for an exorcist and fortune-teller. He uses logic and psychological tricks to practice wizardry, until he masters it and controls people, meanwhile losing his ethics.
The Egg and the Stone

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet and falls in love with two young Egyptian brothers, reflecting complex themes of colonial desire, affection, and personal connection.
Adieu Bonaparte

Set in the 1980s, an employee who has reached the age of retirement gets another job as a taxi driver to provide for his family and ensure better education for his kids. Will his children make peace with the fact that their respectable father is now a cab driver?
There's Something Wrong

Azza escapes from her family’s home after being incessantly harassed by her stepfather. On her journey, she meets Medhat and agrees to live in his house, where she meets Magda and they become friends. Things get complicated when Magda dies and Azza pretends to be her.
Troublemaker

Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
Alexandria… Why?

A wrongfully convicted man falls in love with his fellow inmate. They decide to get married after their release and seek revenge on a corrupt businessman.
Love in a Jail Cell

Adel opposes Shawkat's attempts to use his office to carry out suspicious construction work. As Shawkat frames Adel for murder, Adel's fiancée Nagwa enlists the help of Medhat, a lawyer who starts to hit on her, as she pretends to be Adel's sister.
No My Ex-Lover

Sharif, his wife Su'ad, their daughter Sarah, their son Hany and his mother are all living in the shelters after their house was demolished. Due to the inhumane standard of living in the shelters, they go to live in the courtyard of the family house. Unfortunately they find another person living there. Sharif designs and builds a wooden cabin to live in the street. He is subjected to many harassment.
Karakon On The Street

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الرقم المجهول

Hussein Shaker is a man with dictatorial power, he tries to put one of his colleagues under control but he couldn't because of the man patriotism but then he dies and Hussein tries to destroy the man's whole family.
Something in my Chest

Zarifa objects the marriage of her daughter Mona from Tahsin, as she wants her married to a wealthy man, while Ashour, Mona's father, supports the marriage. Zarifa dies, and Ashour, Mona and Tahsin settle on a wedding date, only to see Zarifa's spirit appearing to them trying to spoil their plans.
Forbidden at the Wedding Night

An adaptation of “Crime and Punishment", a young educated man's descent into madness and paranoia after committing a crime, and finding comfort in the company of kind-hearted but abused poor prostitute in the middle of his turmoil.
Sonya and the Madman

The film revolves around Magda, who lives under extremely difficult social conditions and tries in vain to obtain an honest source of livelihood. She ends up pickpocketing on public transportation, and from there she picks up the lawyer Alaa with his knowledge. He searches for her everywhere out of his extreme love for her and his sympathy for her condition and case, with the help of his brother who works in the prosecution service.
Shafah Ghaliza

In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.
Karnak

When Samir graduates from university, and is confronted with the reality that his job will not provide him with enough income, he decides to work in other jobs. While his fiancée struggles all the time until a producer asks her to work with him in advertisements.
El-Ardhahalgi fi Qadhiyyat Nasb

Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's help to find him a job, Salem not only gets him a job at the ministry where he works but he finds him a bride as well. But the bride is the mistress of Qasem Bek, who will be visiting her once a week.