Gabriel Nahas(1906-1963)
- Producer
Gabriel Nahas was born in 1906 in Alexandria, Egypt from a Lebanese
family who had settled in Egypt. He has two brothers, Charles and
Edmond, and one sister Rose. He married Berthe Naoum in 1944 and had
two children, Samir and Fouad. He is one of the major founders of the
Studio Nahas in Cairo and the owner of Nahas Films, the
production/distribution company, known throughout the arabic world. He
died on the 24th May 1963. Two days later, the Egyptian governement
nationalized the Studios Nahas. Between 1932 and 1963, he produced
around sixty films among them the first Arabic color film, "Baba Aris".