Layla Mourad

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Egypt

Leila Mourad or Layla Morad (Arabic: ليلى مراد; February 17, 1918 – November 21, 1995) was an Egyptian singer and actress, and one of the most prominent superstars in Egypt and the entire Arab world in her era. Born Lilian Zaki Ibrahim Mourad to an Egyptian Jewish family, known for their patriotism in 1918 in the El Daher District in Cairo, she later changed her name to Leila Mourad as a…

Known for

• The Unknown Beloved — Layla1955
• Life is Love — Layla1954
• Bent Al-Akaber — Layla1953
• Men Al-Qalb Lel Qalb — Huda1952
• Lady of The Train — Fekreyya Fawzy / Nadia Farid / Zakeyya1952
• Adam and Eve — Fatima1951
• Habib el-Rooh — Leila1951
• Flowers of Love — Elham1951
• Shore of Love1950
• The Flirtation of Girls — ليلى بنت الباشا1949

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Listeners

4,552

Total plays

26,987

Leila Mourad (Arabic: ليلى مراد; February 17, 1918- November 21, 1995) was an Egyptian singer and actress. She is also credited as “Laila Mourad” and “Layla Mourad”. Leila Mourad was born in Al Daher, Cairo on February 17, 1918 to an Egyptian of Iraqi Jewish descent father, Zaki Mourad, a respected singer and musician in the twenties, and to a Jewish mother whose family is from Poland, Gamilah “Salmon” who gave birth to Mourad, Isak, Ibrahim, Malak, Mounir and Samihah. Her brother Mounir Mourad

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Gender

female

Citizenship

Egypt

Place of birth

Cairo

Place of death

Cairo

Spouse

Fatin Abdelwehab

Child

Zaki Fatin Abdelwehab

Sibling

Monir Morad

Occupation

singer

Languages spoken

Arabic

Native language

Arabic

Religion

Judaism

Genre

popular music

Instrument

voice

Image

Laila Mourad.jpg

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