[2] Yousri was also very known for her support to Egypt's president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi and the 26 of July revolution.

[3] Madiha Yousri was born on December 3, 1921, in Cairo, Egypt as 'Honouma Habib Khalil Ali', to a lower middle-class Egyptian family within a humble neighborhood.

When she would later describe the meeting, she remembered listening to Karim while thinking that her father would never allow his daughter to act.

[2][5] Her debut role was in a film directed by Karin in 1940, Mamnau'a Al-Hub (en: Forbidden Love).

She went on to appear in many films, alongside many of Egypt's famous musicians of the time, including Abdel-Halim Hafez, Mohamed Fawzi and Farid Al-Atrash.