Mahmoud Sa'id

[1] Queen Farida of Egypt was his niece and she described him as "a quiet, gentle, oppressively timid man".

Between 1919 and 1921 he travelled through Europe, ultimately studying at the Académie Julian.

In Alexandria, he first trained for two years with the Italian painter Amelia Casonato Da Forno from 1912 and later with Arturo Zanieri from 1916.

[2] He often shared the studio of his good friend, the Greek painter Aristomenis Angelopoulos (Αριστομένης Αγγελόπουλος).

The Mahmoud Said Museum is located in the family villa in the Gianaclis neighborhood of Alexandria.