Biographies: Antoinette Iskander - Actor

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Antoinette Iskander is an Iraqi artist who appeared in the early fifties. She is the adopted daughter of Afifa Iskandar and violinist Estefan Iskandar, the person whom Afifa Iskandar married when she was 12 years old to allow her to sing in the nightclub. She worked in the opera club in Baghdad before moving to Beirut in the fifties to work in its theatres. In 1953, she traveled to Cairo to participate in the film Board of Directors, and also sang in it.

• 27 September 2021
• Toqa Hesham