Hind Rostom

Hind Hussain Mohammed was born in the neighborhood of Moharram Bek, Alexandria, Egypt on November 12, 1929.{{cite magazine |last=Sekaly |first=Malak |title=19 January 2016 |url=http://www.spiralmag.net/?p=4041 |magazine=SpiralMag |location=Cairo |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160705045610/http://www.spiralmag.net/?p=4041 |archive-date=5 July 2016}}{{Cite book|title=Hind rostom : the world's greatest actress (a synopsis).|last=De.|first=Lafayette, Maximillien|date=2011|publisher=Lulu Com|isbn=978-1257054190|location=[Place of publication not identified]|oclc=941695283}} She was born to a Middle class family, to an Egyptian mother{{cite news|last=Hesham|first=Soha|title=Hind Rostom (1929-2011) Egypt's Monroe|url=http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/Archive/2011/1060/cu4.htm|accessdate=5 September 2017|publisher=Al-Ahram|quote=Rostom was born on 11 November 1929 in Alexandria to an Egyptian father and an Egyptian mother. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905183456/http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/Archive/2011/1060/cu4.htm|archive-date=5 September 2017|url-status=dead}} and an Alexandrian father of Egyptian origin.{{cite news |author=Rym Tina Ghazal|title=The Other Marilyn Monroe|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rym-tina-ghazal/hind-rostom-_b_1746232.html|accessdate=5 September 2017|publisher=Huffington Post|quote=Of aristocratic Turkish & Arab roots, Rostom was born on November 11, 1931 in Alexandria as Nariman Hussein Murad...}}{{cite news|author=The Daily News Egypt|title=Egyptian screen legend, seductress Hind Rostom dies at 82|url=http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/film/egyptian-screen-legend-seductress-hind-rostom-dies-at-82.html|accessdate=2011-08-28|work=The Daily News Egypt|date=2011-08-09|quote=Born Nariman Hussein Murad on Nov. 11, 1931 in Alexandria to a middle class egyptian father and an aristocratic mother, her parents separated shortly after she was born. She moved to Cairo with her father when she was nine and then later with her single mother a few years later.|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120326074759/http://www.thedailynewsegypt.com/film/egyptian-screen-legend-seductress-hind-rostom-dies-at-82.html|archivedate=2012-03-26}}

She started her career at the age of 16 with the film Azhaar wa Ashwak (Flowers and Thorns). Her first true success was in 1955 when the famous director Hassan El Imam offered her a role in Banat el Lail (Women of the Night).

Her famous films include Ezz El-Dine Zulficar's Return My Heart (Rodda Qalbi) with Shoukry Sarhan, Mariam Fakhr Eddine and Salah Zulfikar in 1957, Ibn Hamidu with Ismail Yassine in 1957. She was cast by Youssef Chahine in the 1958 film Cairo Station (The Iron Gate / Bab El Hadid) alongside Farid Shawki. She also co-starred in Salah Abu Seif's La Anam (Sleepless) with Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, and Rushdy Abaza in 1958, Sira' fi al-Nil (Struggle on the Nile) with Omar Sharif and Rushdy Abaza in 1959, and Chafika el Koptia (Chafika the Coptic Girl) in 1963, where she played the role of a Coptic Orthodox nun. Rostom was known as the queen of seduction in Egyptian cinema, the "Marilyn Monroe of the East (or of the Egyptian cinema)".{{Cite book|title=Music and media in the Arab world|others=Frishkopf, Michael Aaron|isbn=9781617976032|edition= First |location=Cairo|oclc=891590944|date = September 2010}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/rym-tina-ghazal/hind-rostom-_b_1746232.html|title=The Other Marilyn Monroe|last=Ghazal|first=Rym Tina|date=2012-08-13|website=Huffington Post|language=en-US|access-date=2018-07-25}}{{Cite book|title=Media, politics, and religion in Egypt: an analysis of the impact of the relationship between government and religion on Egyptian media content, 1950-1995|last=Haroutunian|first=Mourad R.|publisher=M. Haroutunian|year=2000|pages=91}}

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She decided to retire acting in 1979 because she wanted the audience to remember her at her best.

In December 2002 Rostom once more turned down an offer of £E1,000,000 for her biography. The offer was made by an Egyptian satellite channel to portray her life as a drama series. She was asked to submit a complete history of her past achievements, and work experiences with prominent actors of the past, such as Farid Shawki, Salah Zulfikar, Shukri Sarhan, and Shadia. The actress stated that she refused to sell her life as a means of entertainment and felt that her personal life was of her concern and no one else. Rostom made a statement when she turned down belly dancer Fifi Abdo's invitation to attend a party held in Hind Rostom's honour.

In 2004, she refused to accept Order of Sciences and Arts, "The award came too late, I'm not placed on the shelf for them to pick me whenever they want, there's only one Hind Rostom in the middle east, and let's consider that the number of my generation star actresses isn't that big enough to ignore us, and also it's not appropriate to honor me after years of honoring people who are less than me, another point is that I also refuse to honor me before Shadia, she'd deserved it and she was a star longtime before me", Rostom commented.{{Cite book|title=Hind Rustum, dhikrayātī|last=Ayman|first=Ḥakīm|publisher=Al-Karma Books|year=2018|isbn=9789776467941|location=Cairo|pages=26|oclc=1036238392}}

Hind Rostom's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery.{{Cite web |last=Magazine |first=Enigma |date=2016-11-03 |title=Hend Rostom |url=https://www.enigma-mag.com/hend-rostom/ |access-date=2023-10-28 |website=eniGma Magazine |language=en-US}} She was married twice, once to Hassan Reda, a film director and father of her only daughter, Passant,{{clarify|reason=in the infobox, her daughter is mentioned as "Bassant Reda", but here the name begins with a 'P'|date=April 2024}} then to Dr. Mohammad Fayaad, a gynecologist. "I have no regrets," she stated in an interview about her decision to retire. "I did it for the love of my life, my prince, Dr. Fayaad," she added, referring to her second husband Mohammed Fayyad, whom she was married to for more than 50 years.File:Hind_Rustom.jpg

Rostom was overprotective of her daughter Passant due to worry about the stigma associated with artists’ children lacking parental supervision. "She was extremely stern, even with my friends," Passant recalled. She was not allowed to join her friends on trips and outings.{{Cite web |date=2022-09-10 |title=Egyptian icon Hind Rostom: The Marilyn Monroe of the East |url=https://arab.news/pjhn4 |access-date=2023-10-28 |website=Arab News |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Deena Adel |date=18 Aug 2011 |title=Egypt's 50s cinema star Hind Rostom, through her daughter's eyes |url=https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/5/32/19146/Arts--Culture/Film/Egypts-s-cinema-star-Hind-Rostom,-through-her-daug.aspx}}

On August 8, 2011, Rostom died in a hospital in Al-Mohandeseen, Giza due to a heart attack, at the age of 81.{{Cite news|url=https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/egyptian-screen-siren-hind-rostom-was-an-accidental-feminist-1.386391|title=Egyptian screen siren Hind Rostom was an accidental feminist|work=The National|access-date=2018-07-25|language=en}}{{Cite news|url=https://gulfnews.com/news/mena/egypt/egyptian-cinema-sensation-dies-of-heart-attack-at-82-1.849465|title=Egyptian cinema sensation dies of heart attack at 82|author=Dina Aboul Hosn|date=2011-08-10|work=GulfNews|access-date=2018-07-25}}

On November 12, 2018, Google recognized her with a doodle.{{Cite web | url = https://doodles.google/doodle/hind-rostoms-87th-birthday/ | title= Hind Rostom's 87th Birthday | website = google.com | language=en | access-date=2018-11-12}}

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• {{IMDb name|id=0744600|name=Hind Rostom}}.
• [https://www.bibalex.org/alexcinema/actors/Hind_Rustom.html Biography] on Bibliotheca Alexandrina
• [https://www.al-jazirah.com/magazine/11052004/memory10.htm An interview with Hend Rostom]. {{in lang|ar}}
• [https://gate.ahram.org.eg/News/102878.aspx Al-Ahram's article]. {{in lang|ar}}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20181112021326/https://cosmosazul.blogs.sapo.pt/hind-rostoms-87th-birthday-51920 Hind Rostom’s 87th Birthday]

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