مجلة المسرح المصرية, السيدة فاطمة قدري The Theater Arabic #9 Fatima Qadri Egyptian Magazine 1926
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Title: المسرح (Al-Masrah / The Theater).
Date: 1926
No. 9 (العدد ٩)
Year: السنة الأولى (First Year)
Type: Original. Theater, Art and celebrity magazine. Hard to find.
Printed in Egypt.
Approximate size 8 1/2x12 INCHES Approx. 23x31cm.
Number of pages: 30
Condition: Acceptable. This magazine was previously bound into a volume by a former owner, and shows wear and paper loss to the spine from removal from that binding. Internally clean and complete.
Front Cover: The front page features a portrait tinted in green of Fatima Qadri (السيدة فاطمة قدري), who is explicitly credited at the bottom as "the famous singer" (المغنية الشهيرة). Fatima Qadri was a widely recognized theatrical singer, monologist, and actress who performed prominently in Egypt during the 1910s and 1920s. She famously collaborated with pioneering theater figures like Badie Khairy—who wrote her breakthrough monologue in 1917—and frequently performed on the vibrant stages of Rod El Farag and Emad El Din street. Interestingly, "Fatima Qadri" was also the birth name of her legendary contemporary, the pioneering Egyptian stage and cinema actress Fatima Rushdi.
