2022/04/30
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“Sahebat Al-Saada,” her nickname, and Asaad Younes, is her name. She is a multi-talented artist, actress, broadcaster, writer, producer and sometimes sings.
Esaad Hamed Gamal El-Din Younes, famous for Esaad Younes, was born in Cairo on April 12, to a father who worked as a military pilot, one of the free men of the revolution, and was a student of the writer Ihsan Abdel Quddous, and a journalist at the Rosal Youssef Foundation and had a great influence on her, and to a Cairene mother of Turkish origins. And an Italian woman, Kawkab Muhammad Sadiq Orfali, who died in April 2002.
And her mother named her “Esaad”, so that her name would stick to her father’s name, so that she would be Esaad Hamed, perhaps he would be happy and end his trip to England at the time of her birth, and return safely.
Asaad Younes has two sisters known in the artistic world, the famous singer Iman Younes, and the famous ballerina Dr. Ahlam Younes.
Esaad Younes graduated from the Institute of Tourist Guidance in 1972. Immediately following graduating, she worked as a broadcaster at the Sheraton Hotel in Cairo, presenting parties, fashion shows, and the night program for the sales department.
Esaad Younes stormed the field of acting in the seventies, through small roles in a number of artworks, including the films “An Unfinished Crime”, “Me, My Daughter and Love”, “End of Love”, “The Queen and I”, and “Mirrors”. And “Doaa of the Oppressed”, “A Rendezvous with Sosut”, the series “The World is Not Damaged”, “The Origin of the Story is a Lie”, and “Journey in a Crazy World”.
her personal life
Esaad Younes married the late artist Nabil Al-Hajrsi while they were working on the movie The Queen and I, and she gave birth to her daughter Nourhan from him, but their marriage did not last long and the separation took place. Later, she married the Jordanian billionaire Alaa Mahmoud Al-Khawaja, who holds British citizenship. Sherihan and gave birth to her two daughters, Pearl, and the following Quran.
Esaad Younes, along with her husband, Alaa Al-Khawaja, founded the Arab Company for Cinematic Production and Distribution, which monopolizes more than two-thirds of Egyptian cinema production.
With the marriage of Esaad Younes to Alaa Al-Khawaja, she became one of the biggest emperors of the cinema market in Egypt, to the extent that in 2004 she stood in the face of the “leader” artist Adel Imam, and threatened not to show his movie “Groom from a Security Agency” on time in cinemas, which was not Someone had dared do this to Adel Imam before, especially since his films at that time were making millions of pounds.