Mounir Mourad or Monir Morad (Arabic: منير مراد January 13, 1922 - October 17, 1981), born Maurice Zaki Mourad Mordechai was an Egyptian artist, singer, actor, and distinguished composer of lighthearted songs. His compositions included duets for Shadia and Abdel Halim Hafez.

He played the leading roles in a few Egyptian films, the most famous being "Of the Good Day" (Naharak Sa'id).

His father Ibrahim Zaki Mourad Mordechai was a famous Jewish Egyptian singer, musician and composer in the early twentieth century, his mother was a Jewish Egyptian called Gamilah Ibrahim Roushou, the daughter of Ibrahim Roushou, a local concert contractor in the early 20th century who regularly booked Zaki Mourad to sing at concerts and wedding parties. Mourad was born in Cairo. When Mounir was growing up, his sister, the artist Leila Mourad was already famous and singing on Egyptian radio.

In 1939, Mourad left his French college (Collège des Frères (Bab al-Louq)) took various jobs, then entered the field of cinema, firstly as a script supervisor (Klaket), and then as an *istant director to Kamal Salim in about 24 films in the 1940s.

Mourad attempted to compose and present jazz music that was popular at that time in the West, but faced difficulties in promoting it and to convince anyone to produce it. His big breakthrough, however, came when he composed his first popular song "One Two" ("Wahed .. Etneen") sung by Shadia which then opened the way for the singers and film-makers to entrust him to compose songs in many movies.

Mourad was a pioneer in dance music and musical shows. He composed and developed much of Egypt's most famous dance music, performed by the leading dancers of the time, Tahiya Karioka, Samia Gamal, and Naima Akef.

His *ociation with singer Shadia was a milestone in the history of Egyptian music as their songs have become cl*ic songs of romance in Egypt. In addition, songs for Abdel Halim Hafez served as a special aspect of the Halim experience.

Mounir Mourad composed music for several other singers from Egypt and some Arab countries with the same method, which is characterised with successive rapid rhythm.

Mounir also acted in three movies, acting and singing mixing jazz with oriental music.

Mounir Mourad was married to actress Soher Al Bably .

Contents

• 1 Personal life
• 2 His Death
• 3 Filmography
• 4 References
• 5 Sources
• 6 External links

Personal life

• Mourad married three times, the first to a Jewish girl, from whom he bore his only son “Zaki Mourad”, then he married the artist Suhair Al-Babli for 9 years from 1958 until 1967, “ Suhair ” the true love in his life, as a result of the multiplicity of differences, it ended Divorce marriage...He remained unmarried for several years, until he married for the third time to Mervat Sharif the step sister of the singer Tamer Hosny

• Mounir Mourad converted to Islam out of conviction like the artist Leila Mourad, and not as it is rumored

that he entered Islam just to marry to Soher Al Bably .

His Death

Mounir Murad died on October 17, 1981 at the age of 59, after suffering a heart attack, Mounir's death came as a result of a sudden heart attack, but it was undoubtedly a natural result after long days of psychological depression due to the tragic conditions that the country witnessed and the overwhelming sense of danger of what was to come and the unknown, in addition to the severe crises he is going through personally.

Filmography

• Naharak Sa'id, 1955
• Ana Wa Habibi, 1953

References

Sources

• Film Database
• Jews of Egypt

External links

• Munir Mourad at IMDb
• Egyptian State Information Service
• يهود مصر
• Jews of Egypt