Word: amal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cairo's cabarets first heard the sultry voice of Amal el Atrash 20 years...
...year Amal lived in pampered boredom in a Syrian mountain villa. Then Cairo's footlights called irresistibly. She divorced the Emir, hurried to Egypt, married a film director, divorced him within a year. By that time she had a new career: she was well on the way to be coming the Arabic world's Hedy Lamarr...
Enter Ahmed. Ismahan's days, like Amal's days, were gaudy with melodrama. In 1941 she remarried Cousin Emir Hassan. Her motive was patriotism, not love. She brought him and his fierce Druse tribesmen into the Allied camp, inspired him to help the British take Syria from the Vichy French. Then she got another divorce and another husband, temperamental Ahmed Salem, Egypt's foremost cinema producer...