[1] She was one of the female comedy pioneers in the Egyptian cinema along with Mary Mounib and Widad Hamdi.

after the death of her father, she began her career as a belly dancer, and joined an association of artists in the early 1930s.

[3] El-Rihani gave her the stage name Zeinat Sedki instead of her birth name Zeinab Mohamed Saad.

She will later resume the same role on the boards in a theatrical adaptation written by Naguib el-Rihani and Badie Khairy.

In 1976, former Egyptian President Mohamed Anwar el-Sadat gave her an award at The Art Feast and granted her an exceptional pension.