Fairouz Arteen Kalevan

This clip is from the film Yasmin starring Egyptian child star Fairouz in the title role and also starring Anwar Wagdy and Made7a Yousry. This is not a dance clip but Fairouz's performance is so amazing and tear jerking in this scene that I had to upload it. She was truly a little package of energy and extraordinary talent. Fairouz was one of three very talented sisters who all performed in films as children. Her sister Nelly is well known all over the middle east for her Ramadan fawazeer. They are the cousins of actress Lebleba. Fairouz is still alive and well today and lives in Cairo. In this film, Yasmin (played by Fairouz) was left at an orphanage at birth by her father who was infuriated because he had wanted a son and his wife gave birth to a girl. His solution was to give her away. Yasmin lived at the orphanage and was renamed Katkouta, but when her beloved teacher and caregiver died she escaped from the orphanage and became a child street performer. She was found by a struggling impoverished musician (played by Anwar Wagdy) who immediately saw the opportunity for success by teaming up with her and they began performing together. A strange coincidence leads them to Yasmin's maternal grandfather who soon realizes that she is his grand daughter but she escapes again and they can't find her. In this scene, Yasmin has finally located her maternal grandfather (played by Egyptian actor Zaki Rostum) and has walked into his room while he is sleeping. She talks to him and reprimands him for having allowed her to grow up on the streets with the cats and the dogs. But she tells him that she loves him very much anyway. When she gives him a kiss, his moustache tickles her so she takes the scissors and begins to trim it. Later in the scene her real mother walks in and realizes that this is the child that her ex husband has taken from her and who she never stopped thinking about. Yasmin also realizes that this is her mother.
Fairouz Arteen Kalevan passed away on January 30, 2016 at the age of 73.