“Song of Hope”) is a 1936 Egyptian romantic musical film.
Weddad, also transliterated as Wydad, is based on a romantic tale inspired by Omar Khayyam's One Thousand and One Nights.
The biggest production of its time, it was the film debut of Um Kalthoum.
The sports team Wydad AC in Casablanca, Morocco, is named after the film.
[4][5] In the time of the Mamluk Sultanate, a rich trader named Baher has no choice but to sell his slave Wydad, who he's madly in love with, when he loses everything.