Her father then went on to live in Brazil and left her with the Christian family of Lebanese born Egyptian Eskander Farah, who had a major impact on her life, and especially on her choice to choose the acting profession.

Her success won her the nickname the "Sarah Bernard of the East" and praise from Egyptian and international critics.

[1] The magazine, which did not hesitate to use in illustration of caricatures, became popular and addressed taboo subjects such as religion and sexuality, frequently narrating the 'flapper-age' of Egyptian society.

This Cairo weekly, which continued despite the death of its founder in 1958, stood out in 1994 as one of the rare Arab journals to dare to publish extracts from the Satanic Verses of Salman Rushdie.

Rose El Youssef, unique in her time, has become an emblematic figure of the Egyptian press and theatre and of the Cairo context in the interwar period.