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Born on the 17th of August in 1932.Hussein Kamal is a film director who owns an intellectual vision of art, he is one of the most important directors of the traditional Egyptian cinema.His own tendencies towards art took off at a young age; as he tried to study the art of cinema after he completed his school but his father forced him to study commerce.After getting his high school diploma of commerce from the Le Ferares. He traveled to Paris to achieve his old dream, as he joined the Academy of Cinema, to study the art of direction, and he was graduated in 1954.

When he returned to Egypt he worked as a director for programs like (The magazine of youth, Issues and opinions).After awhile he directed a number of Television series. His most remarkable T.V work was (The Juncture); inspired by a novel written by Naguib Mahfouz, he also won first prize for drama at the T.V festival in 1964. After that Hussein Kamal made his second film (Al Bostagy-1968). Hussein Kamal had managed to break and shatter a number of the usual basics and as he presented his third film(shai` min al khaof-1969) he gave a new modern technique to the Egyptian cinema, to make the film more like a public tale. Hussein Kamal contributed to the development of the Arabic songs in the cinema and presented differently away from the traditional form, which all were used to in the Egyptian cinema before that.

He directed a number of important films in the history of the Egyptian cinema; among them were: shai`min al khaof, nahnu la nazra al shawq,abi fawq al shagara, al nedaha, moulid ya donia, imbratoriat meem, al omr lahza, habibi da`eman. Some of his major works for the theatre were: bamba kashar, alashan khater euonik, Raia we Sikena, ana wa al nezam wa hawak, khan al khalili, el wad said al shaghal, for the T.V he directed: ranin, al ma`taf, moftaraq al toroq and kolona ekhwa. —Egyptian Figures