An elegant villa in the city of Port Said in northeastern Egypt, on its door a copper sign that reads "Theater Club". The incubator who gave Arab art a bright star was Mahmoud Yassin, who was born in this "valiant" city in 1941, and the unparalleled love of the theater club in The world - according to the description of the artist himself - from an early age, he stood on stage while he was still in middle school.

The boy did not rest until he went to Cairo for university studies and hurried to the Ataba neighborhood, where the "national theater" was in his golden age, to drown in his leading theatrical performances, and eagerly follow 10 plays in 10 days, every day a new play, which formed a treasure that he had never dreamed of He was given the opportunity to act in the National Theater during his university studies.

And as soon as he obtained a Bachelor of Laws in 1964 and worked as a lawyer for a period of time, he decided to devote himself to acting after he was ranked first in 3 qualifiers conducted by the National Theater.

the beginning

Mahmoud Yassin began his career on the national stage after the 1967 defeat, with the play "The Dream" with director Abdul Rahim Al-Zarqani, before taking his first steps in the cinema with secondary roles in 1968 in my films "The Man Who Lost His Shadow" and "The Case 86 ″ Then My Film" Smoke of crime ”and“ A Tale of Our Country ”1969.

After the play "The Dream", Yassin performed more than 20 plays, most notably: "Sweetness of Time" 1971, "Layla and Majnun" 1972, "The Return of the Absent" 1978, "Wa Qudasah" in 1985 and "The Khedive" 1993.

In 1970, he also participated in a secondary role with the actress Shadia in the movie "Something of Fear", to achieve a real breakthrough with her in the wonderful "We Do Not Sow Thorns" 1971, after it was discovered by director Hussein Kamal.

In the same year, the artist Faten Hamama returned to the cinema after a period of absence, and she accompanied Mahmoud Yassin, as a new face full of goodness and gentleness, to co-star in her film "The Thin Thread" about the story of Ihsan Abdul Quddus, and she shared with him two other films, "Habibi" 1974 and "Mouths and Rabbits" 1977, amid the torrential rains of cinematic, television, theatrical and radio works on this rising star.

Spread

Soon after the 1970s, Mahmoud Yassin became the first Arab screen boy, with more than 70 films, in which most of the stars of that period participated. With Naglaa Fathy, he presented more than 20 films, including: "Love and Pride" in 1972 and "Bodour" 1974.

With Mervat Amin, he presented about 13 films, including “Don't Leave Me Alone” 1975, and “The Devil's Third” 1978. In the same year, Madiha Kamel participated in the title of “Climb to the Abyss” among 7 other films, and collaborated with Suad Hosni in 3 of them. Who We Shot 1975, and starred in musical and musical films such as “Birth of Ya Dunya” 1976.

This is in addition to a number of works quoted by prominent writers, including "A Nose and Three Eyes", "Investigation is still ongoing" by Ihssan Abdul Quddus, 1972 and 1979, "Night and Bars" by Najeeb Al-Kilani 1973, and "Sonia and Majnun" for the novel "crime" Punishment by the international novelist Dostoyevsky 1977, as well as the movie "The Beast Within Man" by the French novelist Emile Zola 1981, and "Harafish" by Naguib Mahfouz in 1986.

Glow

In the eighties, Mahmoud Yassin presented more than 50 films, including “Al-Batiniya” 1980, “The Bribed Gentlemen” 1983, “The Secret Session” 1986, and “A Date with Destiny” 1987. In the 1990s and until his retirement, he presented 22 films, including “Statement With murder "1991," A Woman Pays the Price "1993, and" Three on the Table of Blood "1994, leading up to his role in" Al-Jazeera "2007 and in" The Promise "2008, before completing a career that spanned more than half a century with a film Find my love "in 2012.

Mahmoud Yassin is also considered one of the best who presented the Egyptian soldier character in cinema, in the films "Song on the Passage" 1972, "The Bullet is Still in My Pocket", "The Great Loyalty", "Shadows on the Other Side" 1974, and "Wall Tournaments "1998, and" A Girl from Israel "1999.

Yassin also did not neglect the television works. He presented about 65 series, most of which achieved great success, starting with "The Chase" 1969, and going through "Tomorrow Flowers Bloom" in which he gave children a song with his voice, and "Jamal al-Din al-Afghani" and "Muhammad is the Messenger of God" 1984 And “Al-Ezz Bin Abd Al-Salam” 1987 and “Ayyam Al-Munira” 1994.

And he continued his stardom in "The Great Imam Abu Hanifa Al-Nu`man" 1997, and "Behind Closed Doors" 1999, all the way to "Souk Al Asr" 2001, "Disobedience" and "The Harem Revolution" 2002 and 2003, and "Mama Fi Al Qesam", which is the latest series He presented it with Samira Ahmed in 2010.

the value

After more than 140 films, about 65 TV series, 12 plays, and 14 radio series, Mahmoud Yassin told the Kuwaiti newspaper, Al-Anbaa in 2014, that he stops in front of 3 characters in 3 series that affected him: Hamid Al-Gharabawi, the symbol of wisdom in "disobedience", and Abu Hanifa, the symbol of piety in " Imam Abu Hanifa al-Nu'man, and Helmy Askar, the symbol of evil, is in the Souk Al-Asr.

During his artistic career, Yassin won more than 50 awards, including the State Prize for his war films in 1975, and the Ismailia Festival Award in 1980. In the same year he won the Tashkent Festival Prize, the Arab Cinema Prize in America and Canada 1984, and the Algiers Festival in 1988, as well as Best Actor Award at the TV Festival in 2001 and 2002.

In 2005, he was chosen by the United Nations as a goodwill ambassador to combat poverty and hunger, and in 2015 he was honored at the Alexandria Mediterranean Film Festival.

The artist Mahmoud Yassin was unmatched in his distinguished voice, his overwhelming presence and his varied performance between political, social, dramatic and comedic roles, which made him one of the most important stars in the history of Arab cinema, and the highest paid among his generation, due to the romance that characterized him for more than two decades.