Mohammed Abdel Wahhab in "The White Rose"

This clip from "The White Rose" (1933), featuring Mohammed Abdel Wahhab, illustrates his character's ambition to be a great musician with a dissolve in which the name of a musician (Maḥmoud Aṭiyya) on a poster changes to his own (Moḥammed Galāl). Once he reaches his flat he studies the portraits of his idols in whose footsteps he aspires to follow. The sequence also serves to identify Abdel Wahhab himself as a link a chain of transmission (isnād) beginning with Sheikh Abduh al-Hamūlī (1843-1901), followed by Sheikh Salāma Ḥijāzī (1852-1918), accompanied by a bit of him singing "Salāmun 'ala husnin" ("Greetings for a beautiful one"), and Sheikh Sayyīd Darwīsh (1892-1923), with a bit of him singing his dawr "Ana 'asheqt" ("I fell in love")

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