A capable comedian who made a unique name for herself in the world of presenting programs to become “Her Excellency” who brought back the joy of the programs. Esaad Younes is multi-talented, as she is a satirical writer, producer and distributor. She presented many important films to the cinema and worked with many stars. It has its magic mixture of happiness and success.
Her mother named her Esaad to bring good luck, and her father was a journalist
Esaad Hamed Gamal El-Din Younis was born on April 12, 1950 in Cairo. Her mother decided to call her “Esaad” to bring luck and goodness to her father so that he would return safely from his trip to England. Asaad – Mayor of Talkha, and her father worked as a military pilot and was one of the free officers, in addition to his work as a journalist at the Rose Al-Youssef Foundation. But she continued to draw her steps from him despite his death.
As for her Cairene mother, she was of Turkish and Italian origins, and she is Kawkab Muhammad Sadiq Al-Orfalli, and she died in 2002. Easaad Yunus said regarding her before that her mother was spoiled. Easaad Yunus has two brothers, Ahmed and Jamal, who died at the age of 6 months. Professor at the Higher Institute of Ballet.
I trainedEsaad YounesShe worked as a broadcaster on the European program while she was in her first year of study at the Tourist Guidance Institute, and following obtaining her bachelor’s degree in 1968, she worked as an assistant in the Middle East program, and then she had a special program on Middle East Radio.
“Mizu” is the beginning of the artistic breakthrough, and Bakiza and Zaghloul are a sign in her career
I got acquaintedEsaad YounesBy chance, she was presented to Samir Ghanem, who offered her acting in the series “Mizu” to present her first work and the character of Safinaz Abdel Ghani, who achieved fame for her in 1977. In the same year, she was shown 5 works, including the movie “Doaa of the Oppressed”, to begin a new phase of her artistic life between Acting, authoring, film distribution and production, so she foughtEsaad YounesThe authorship experience in 1985 through the movie “Al Majnouna”, following which she presented the series “Bakiza and Zaghloul” in 1978, which was also written by her and became a sign in her extended artistic career, during which she presented nearly 101 works between cinema, theater and drama, and she presented the play “Sleeping “Nyam”, “Rubabekia” and “Fat Fooling” with Tahia Carioca, which she chose to be part of her theatrical troupe. As for the most famous play in her career, it was in 1979, “Entering in Formal Clothes”, during which she presented a happy and blessed character with Suhair Al-Bably and Abu Bakr Ezzat, And I participatedEsaad YounesIn the films “The Queen”, “Mirrors”, “Prayer for the Oppressed”, “My Daughter and Love”, “An Unfinished Crime”, the series “The World When Tilted” and “A Journey in a Crazy World”, in addition to her experience withAdel EmamIn the movie “Shaaban Sub-Zero” and the movie “Ya Rab Walad”.
And a relationshipEsaad YounesWith her colleagues in the artistic community, she is good. A strong friendship binds her with Adel Imam, who promised her on the first day of filming the movie “Ghawi Problems” that she would be the heroine of his next films. .
Her Excellency is the most famous program in the Arab world and a guest of honor on cinema and drama
Although she presented the championships, but since 2001 she has moved away from the main roles, and appeared as a guest star in “Alzheimer’s” with Adel Emam in 2010, and the series “Without Mentioning Names” in 2013, and the series “Lahfa” with Donia Samir Ghanem in 2015.
And you haven’t forgottenEsaad YounesShe started presenting programs, so she returned through the “Free Space” program on the Orbit channel network in the nineties, and then came the return with the most famous program “Her Excellency”, which has become one of the most important programs on the scene in the Arab world, following rejecting many of the programs that were offered to her. before “Her Excellency”.
President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi honored her on International Women’s Day for her Excellency’s program and her keenness to encourage the Egyptian industry and food products in special paragraphs of her program.
During the episodes, Esaad Younis was able to host many stars in the Arab world, such as Sherine Abdel Wahab, Tamer Hosni, Dina El Sherbini, Asala and Hamid Al Shaeri, and she presented various episodes with Yasmine Sabry while she was cooking stuffed food and Rania Youssef while she was wearing pajamas.
Writer Esaad and return to the radio
In order to satisfy her passion for writing, Esaad Younis kept writing an article in an Egyptian newspaper and also in an Egyptian magazine, before she stopped writing articles a few years ago, but she launched more than one book, including “Memoirs of the Frightened Nora”, “The Beggars” and “As I Say So”. This is also the name of her program, which she presented in 2016 on a radio station and achieved great success, during which she touched on the stories of artistic and historical personalities. During the month of Ramadan 2017, Esaad Younis presented a radio program entitled “The Pride Lasts”.
Marriages in the life of Esaad Younes
Nabil Al-Hijrasy
She married the artist Nabil Al-Hijrasy for a few years, during which she gave birth to their daughter Nourhan and then separated from him, and she mourned him upon his death and wrote on her page on a social networking site: The Almighty father of my daughter, Nabil Al-Hijrasy, passed away to the mercy of God.
The second husband, Alaa Al-Khawaja
And Esaad Younes married the Jordanian millionaire Alaa Al-Khawaja, whom she loved very much, and Esaad had revealed that at the beginning of her marriage, her husband bought her the game “Atari”, which allocated a room for her in her house, and she remained for five years competing with her husband to play, which delayed her childbearing for five years, before she gave birth to her son Omar, who lives in London following obtaining a master’s degree, and in 2000, she founded with her husband the Arab Company for Film Production and Distribution.
Esaad Younis was surprised by Alaa Al-Khawaja’s marriage to the artist Sherihan and hiding the news from her for fear of her feelings.
However, the matter changed and the estrangement turned into support and support following Esaad Younis stood by Sherihan in her journey with cancer, which kept her out of the limelight, and she was also helping her raise her daughter Lulwa. Esaad said regarding this experience that she prayed a lot to God to heal Sherihan and that any woman in her place would be With the same feelings, because in the end, we are human beings, and God placed a part of His mercy in us, and that she and Sherihan have become like twins, and Esaad Younis shares with Sherihan the private plane owned by their husband, Alaa Al-Khawaja.
She faced accusations of monopolizing and selling Egyptian heritage to Saudi Arabia
In 2001, she and her husband filed a case pleaded by more than 28 lawyers, once morest the late director Medhat El Sebaei, the husband of producer Nahed Farid Shawky, for writing articles accusing Hermes, owned at the time by Alaa Lakhawaja and Essad Younes, of seizing the Egyptian cinema archive.
In 2010, the Authority for the Protection of Competition and the Prevention of Monopolistic Practices accused the Arab Company for Production and Distribution, owned by Essad, and 6 other companies of practicing monopoly and restricting film distribution among distribution companies inside Egypt.
She also faced accusations from Egyptian writers and filmmakers of buying copies of more than 500 Egyptian films and selling them to a Saudi company.