Salah Jaheen in "Salon El-Qahera"
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Alexandria—
This week's "Salon El-Qahera" TV show, presented by Dr. Ismail Seragedlin, Director of the Library of Alexandria, will host distinguished guests to speak on Salah Jaheen, a leading Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist.
Salah Jaheen was born in 1930 in Shobra district. His father worked in the judicial field, and his mother was a teacher. Jaheen succeeded with his simplicity and spontaneity to express all what preoccupies the public in a manner easy to grasp, thus, he became a hero with his words and cartoons in the minds of the Egyptian people with their different social levels. His spontaneity was his passport to other Arab countries, which used his words as a motivator for more achievements.
Jaheen's woks were not limited to composing poetry and drawing cartoons in Egyptian papers, he also entered the cinema field. He produced several films, which are still alive in the history of Egyptian cinema, such as: "Amira Hoby Ana" (Amira My Sweetheart), "Awdat al ibn al dal" (The Return of the Prodigal Son), in addition to writing the scripts of several films, most famous of which "Khally ballak men ZouZou" (Be careful, she is Zouzou), which was among the best movies in the seventies; it was screened for more than 54 successive weeks.
The weekly one-hour program "Salon El-Qahera" features special guests every week, and opens new horizons on pressing cultural, scientific, and intellectual issues, serving as an enlightened podium for Arab and Egyptian audiences. The topics vary from science and technology, history of printing, plastic arts, new biology, Egypt and world history, pioneer international figures, to cinema, literary and intellectual life, and many other interesting topics. The episodes is a discussion on a book or several books between four guests, moderated by Dr. Ismail Serageldin. The show is directed by Yehia Momtaz.
It is worth mentioning that the show is screened, during Ramadan, on Saturday at 23:30 hrs. on Egypt's Channel 1.