From: borrel@sigallah.dhhalden.no (Borre Ludvigsen)
Subject: Re: Can anyone tell me who this is? (gif)
Reply-To: borrel@sigallah.dhhalden.no (Borre Ludvigsen)
Organization: Ostfold College
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 07:13:43 GMT

In article <1992Jul28.095935.18298@dhhalden.no>  
borrel@sigallah.dhhalden.no (Borre Ludvigsen) writes:
> Can anyone tell me who this is? E-mail answers will be apprectiated.
>  [uuencoded gif removed]
> - Barre Ludvigsen (borrel@dhhalden.no)
> 

Dear friends,

Thank you all for your suggestions. The identification of the singer is no  
big matter for me, but now that the guessing game is on, it would be nice  
(and fun) to get the mystery cleared up. Here are the suggestions I have  
received so far:

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Joseph F. Angel <angel@herald.usask.ca>, University of Saskatchewan:

I believe the name of this singer is Shadiyah, an Egyptian singer who
attained considerable fame in the 1950s.
On the other hand, I might be entirely wrong!  I am not really sure.


Khaled Elsayed <gr-kme@druid.csc.ncsu.edu>, North Carolina State  
University:

Most probably, she is Egyptian monologist and actress Thorayya Helmy.
Also, it may be a lebanese actress with the name Nour El-Hoda. Both of
them were famous in the 40's and 50's.

Husam Kinawi <kinawi@cpsc.ucalgary.ca>:

This  singer  is called Soaad Mekawwi, and she is an Egyptian
Singer  who  was  famous  in  the 1950s and the 1960s for her
popular  songs and her comic roles with the Egyptian comedian
Ismaeeil Yaseein. As far as I know, she is in her mid 80s and
still lives in Cairo, Egypt.

Ossama Ahmed Essa <essa@usceast.cs.scarolina.edu>

Her name is NagaH Sallam. She is from a lebanees or Syrian origin and came  
to
Egypt in the 40's. She still sings and many people love her songs.


Naji Mouawad <nmouawad@math.uwaterloo.ca>

Sorry Borre, I looked at here. Don't know here.

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Right now I guess my money is with Husam Kinawi as the image I posted was  
indeed one from a Ismaeeil Yaseein movie.

I might also add that the major interest in a guessing game like this is  
the rudimentary "multi-media" use of the net to coomunicate more than just  
text. Right now my tape machine is being used by a student who is writing  
a remote control and video byte archiving program for me. As soon as it  
returns, I shall grap a sound byte and an image with some of the other  
actors in the film so that we can solve the mystery.

Thanks again for your help.

- Barre Ludvigsen

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