Mohamed Ragheb

Mohamed Ahmed Ragheb was born in Cairo, Egypt on May 14th, 1914. He was an actor, photographer and painter. Ragheb attended the Egyptian Royal Police Academy to pursue the newly emerging fields of forensic photography and fingerprinting. Ragheb left the service to start Studio Ragheb in the 1930s and went on to design and print the posters for Arab films through the late 1960s, including Yousef Chahine's Saladin the Victorious (1963) and Henry Barakat's Safar Barlek (1967). In 1966, Ragheb left Egypt for Germany as a guest worker, then traveled to Beirut, Lebanon in 1968. He obtained refugee status in 1969 and immigrated with his wife and three children to Bristol, Pennsylvania, USA.