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An Egyptian singer whose name is Hafez Ahmed Hassan. He was born in Cairo in 1908 in Al-Kabsh Castle. He practiced singing at weddings and worked as a journalist, as he was one of the most skilled and active practitioners of that profession. Since his fame in the 1930s, Umm Kulthum sang his famous song “Balad Al-Mahboob.” Abda Al-Sarouji sang through Egyptian cinema and from his films, in which he sang “The Queen of Theaters” in front of Badia Masabni, with whom he sang in 1936. He lived the rest of his life in a residence in the Abdeen neighborhood in Cairo, staying away from the radio for a long period until his death on June 6, 1987.