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1923 Silent Mohamed Bayoumi (1894-1963) The father of the Egyptian cinema, Mohamed Bayoumi was born on January 3, 1894, in Tanta, Egypt, to a wealthy, devoutly Muslim merchant family. Bayoumi received all his primary and secondary education in Tanta and demonstrated artistic abilities from an early age. In his teens, he developed a talent for sketching and began taking photographs. He was also caught up in the political struggles of the time, joining the National Party, a patriotic organization, at the age of 17. Influenced by the writings of Mustafa Kamil, the Egyptian nationalist leader and Islamicist, Bayoumi, like other Egyptian patriots of the period, was strongly opposed to the British colonial occupation of his country. Although he was from a privileged background, Bayoumi, in developing a national consciousness, was sympathetic to the struggles of ordinary Egyptians, a concern he would later demonstrate in his films. http://www.gildasattic.com/mbayoumi.html