Salah Jaheen

Mohamed Salah Al-Din Bahgat known as "Salah Jaheen" was born in a middle-class family on December 25 1930. he was an Egyptian "Poet,Painter,Artist" and also a Leftist Thought. He studied law at the Cairo University in 1955.

He produced many of the films that are considered immortal in the history of modern cinema like "Amiret hobe ana and film the A'wdet Al-abn Al-Dal".He worked as an editor in a lot of magazines and newspapers such as Rose AL-Yousef in which he drew cartoons,and then went to Al-Ahram newspaper. The summit of his works was "Al-Roba3yat" or "The Quatrains" that was memorized by his generation and the subsequent generations and widely affected on them.

Cartoons: Salah Jahin worked as a cartoonist in the newspaper Al-Ahram, where his Comics were stronger than any newspaper's article,and remained as a steady door that no one could fill the void after him as the same as his level of performance which features with the sense of humor and inimitable ability of constructive criticism .

The Free Officers Movement and revolution of July 23, 1952,was a source of inspiration for Jahin where he immortalized Gamal Abdel Nasser actually in his work.But the defeat of June 5, 1967, especially after Um Kulthum sang her song "Raga'en bkwet el selah" on the eve of the setback, led to hit him with high depression. This setback was the actual inspiration for his most important works "Al-Roba'yat",Which provided political theses, trying to detect the defect in the march of the Free Officers, which considers a lot stronger than what was produced by any contemporary artist. The death of President Nasser is the main reason for the state of sadness and depression that hit him, because the leader Nasser was an inspiring hero and symbol of the dignity of Egypt.

Jaheen died on April 21 1986 leaving behind a great legacy of an eternal works in the Egyptian history.