Biography

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.