Niazi Mostafa

Niazi Mostafa was an Egyptian film director. Mostafa was born on 11 November 1911 in the city of Asyut, Khedivate of Egypt to a Sudanese father and Turkish mother. Mostafa would complete his university studies in Germany and joined the German Film Institute, he then returned to Egypt to work as an editor at Studio Misr.

Egyptian Cinema Egyptian movie critic Samīr Farīd wrote that Mostafa was one of "The most important directors in the history of Egyptian cinema" .

In 1936, he directed several promotional documentaries for Banque Misr group companies.

Works Salama Is Safe or Everything is Fine (1938) - Salama fi khair Si Omar (1941) - Si ʿOmar The Wife Factory (1941) - Masnaa El-Zawgât Mohamed-Ali Street (1944) - Share' Mohamed ʻAlî A Glass and a Cigarette or Sigarra we Kas (1955) A Scrap of Bread (1960) - Loqmat Al-Aish The Most Dangerous Man in the World (1967) - Akhtar ragol fil alam Pleasure and Suffering (1971) Without Pity (1971) - Bela Rahma Hereditary Madness (1975) - Magânîn bi-l-wirâthah

Personal life Niazi was married twice, first to his studio colleague at the editing department, named Najia Ibrahim Belal or Tahia Ibrahin Belal, an actress better known by her stage name Kouka, or Koka who was famous for playing the role of a Bedouin girl and starred in films such as Rabha (1945), Wedad (1936) and Mughamarat Antar wa Abla (1948). She was known as "The Egyptian Cinema Abla", dubbed "African Princess" by newspapers and most fondly remembered as the first Egyptian Actress to reach the world. She was born on March 7, 1917, in Cairo Governorate and also born to a Sudanese father like Niazi while her mother was Egyptian Arab Native. The pair were married after what is considered one of the most famous love stories in the artistic community, although she could not birth any children after 4 years of marriage and thus agreed to have Niazi marry a second wife which was handpicked by her, choosing a dancer Nemat Mukhtar. Niazi however chose to leave Ne’mat Mukhtar after a month and returned to his first wife Kouka, whom he described as the love of his life and stuck by her as she was diagnosed with malignant cancer, dying on 29 January 1979 in Alexandria aged 62 with Niazi by her side.