During one of those games, he met a man named "Asmarani", who was influential in the Arab community in Ghana.
They also imprisoned him at home, but the «Asmarani» intervened and asked and threatened them, not to block the rising artist's carrier.
[2] In Lebanon, he joined the comedy troupe of "Abou Salim", led by Salah Tizani, who is also from Tripoli.
The troupe worked at "Channel 7" of Tele Liban, performing "live" sketches, after only a few months from its opening, marking the golden era of Tele-Liban.
In 1962, they created the "Abou Salim el Tabel" troupe on which Mahmoud assumed the recurring character of Fehmen.