Word: ismahan
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Millions of fellahin knew her by her cinema name, Ismahan. They preferred her passionate acting and singing to Hollywood's best, Westerns included...
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...
...Soon Ismahan and Ahmed Salem quarreled and parted. A fortnight ago the estranged husband came to his wife's villa on Cairo's Pyramids Road, fired several revolver shots, missed her, wounded a policeman, then turned the gun on himself. Doting Arabic cinemafans sighed with relief when they learned that their favorite had not been harmed. Last week the hospital reported that Ahmed Salem and the policeman were on the way to recovery...
...Ismahan heard the news gaily. She had just finished work on her latest movie. She said goodbye to steaming Cairo, stepped into her limousine, headed north for a cool vacation on the Mediterranean. While she was laughing over a joke her maid was telling her, the car skidded, plunged into a deep Nile canal, carried Ismahan to death...
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