Zaynab (film)

Zaynab is a 1930 Egyptian silent film directed by Mohammed Karim.

[1][2] It is based on the 1913 novel under the same name by Mohammed Hussein Heikal.

[3][4] The film stars Bahiga Hafez and Zaki Rostom.

[5][6][7] A love story between Zaynab who works as a wage earner on agricultural lands and Ibrahim who supervises the farming of these lands.

Her family rejects their marriage and make her marry a wealthy man, while Ibrahim gets drafted in the army leaving his sweetheart behind.