Abu Seoud El-Ibiary

November 9, 1910 – March 17, 1969

Cairo, Egypt

An Egyptian screenwriter and songwriter, born in 1910 in Cairo, Abu El-Saud El-Ebiary wrote zajal as a child in the magazine (Al-Awlad) and admired the great writer Badie Khairy as a zajal and playwright, followed his footsteps and was encouraged by Badie. He tried to join the Music Institute but failed in singing and failed to work as a singer with any singer. He wrote 50 songs and offered them for sale to a record company, so the company bought the songs from him at a price of 5 piasters per song. The first monologue that Abu El-Saud El-Ebiary wrote was (Bourieh Men El-Setat) for the monologist Sayed Soliman, which achieved great success. He also wrote comic sketches for Badiaa Masabni’s troupe and his first novel (Awya Tetkalam) in 1933. He then entered the field of cinema and formed an artistic duo with the artist Ismail Yassin, where they worked on many works, including (Ismail Yassin in Aviation, Ismail Yassin Tarzan, Ismail Yassin in the Army), and among his most prominent works are (Hassan and Marika, Too Young for Love, Return (Invisibility Cap). He died in 1968.