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Naguib Elias Rihana: An Egyptian comic actor, and a pioneer of Egyptian and Arab art in the first half of the twentieth century. He was famous for his "Kashkish Bey" character. He presented many plays and films, including the movie "Ghazl Al Banat", which was chosen to be the ninth best film in the history of Egyptian cinema. Najib al-Rihani was born in 1889 in Cairo, to an Iraqi Christian father and an Egyptian Coptic mother. His father worked in the horse trade. The child grew up in the Bab al-Shaariya area. He lived with the poor and simple classes. Rihani was fond of his mother and inherited a sense of humor from her. The social contradictions in the Egyptian society at that time, however, he practiced this sarcasm with shame. Al-Rihani was an introverted personality, he did not mix with people a lot and preferred isolation. His father entered him at the Freire School, where he mastered French, and continued his studies until he obtained his baccalaureate degree, but he did not complete his education due to the deterioration of his father's trade, and he was satisfied with this certificate. And it was owned by the Egyptian economist Aboud Pasha, and he was receiving a decent salary at the time, up to six pounds per month. However, Al-Rihani found that this job did not satisfy his desire, so he decided to leave it, and he kept looking for another job, until fate led him to meet a friend of his named Muhammad. Saeed and he loved acting, so he suggested to Al-Rihani that they form a theater group together that would present light sketches to the masses of nightclubs on Imad Al-Din Street. As soon as Al-Rihani began his artistic career, his star rose to prominence, and he became famous among the people, because of his exceptional acting talent and genius sense of humor. Al-Rihani died in 1949, after suffering from typhoid, and he was about to finish filming the movie Ghazal Al Banat, so the end of the movie was forcibly modified, until it was shown, and the movie was a great success and was even considered one of the best films shown in the history of Egyptian cinema.