Mohamed karim egyptian actor biography

Mohamed Karim

 (1886-1972)

Mohamed Karim was born on 8 December 1886 in Abdeen in Cairo.

He remembers vividly the first time he went to the cinematograph as a child, and asked his elder brother to take him there again, because he had been absolutely fascinated by it. It was this second time that “determined [his] future and led [him] along the path he took” (Ali, p.

34). Since that time “I started to imagine myself in the place of the actors I see on screen” (Ali, p.

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36).

One September day in 1917 his Italian friend and neighbour told him that the Banco di Roma had established an Italian production company in Alexandria called The Italian Cinematographic Society (SITCIA).

This, the first production company in Egypt, would produce films adapted from The Thousand and One Nights. Karim