Salima Mourad (1905 - 1974) سليمة مراد

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A Jewish Iraqi actress and singer who was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1905. She participated in the cinema with the movie Alya And Essam (1948) which was the first Iraqi cinematic film directed by the French Andre Schottan. She lived in Iraq for a long period despite the Iraqi...Read more government's revocation of citizenship for all Jews, and she continued to sing until the last years of her life. Accompanied by her husband, the singer Nazim Al-Ghazali, she created a nightclub to perform many of her old songs. However, her husband was killed in mysterious circumstances, and she was accused of killing him. She passed away in Baghdad in 1974.


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  • A Jewish Iraqi actress and singer who was born in Baghdad, Iraq in 1905. She participated in the cinema with the movie Alya And Essam (1948) which was the first Iraqi cinematic...Read more film directed by the French Andre Schottan. She lived in Iraq for a long period despite the Iraqi government's revocation of citizenship for all Jews, and she continued to sing until the last years of her life. Accompanied by her husband, the singer Nazim Al-Ghazali, she created a nightclub to perform many of her old songs. However, her husband was killed in mysterious circumstances, and she was accused of killing him. She passed away in Baghdad in 1974.

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  • Birth Country:
  • Iraq


  • Death Country:
  • Iraq



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