Talk:Leila Mourad

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Leila Murad's father was an Iraqi Jew from Baghdad, he wasn't Egyptian, although Leila was born in Cairo. She's related to the famous Iraqi Jewish singer Salima Murad Pasha —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.66.199.209 (talk) 03:21, 18 November 2008 (UTC)

'The religious commitment of actresses, singers, and dancers are not taken seriously by Egyptians'.
Is this not a bit of a sweeping generalisation? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Fwoar! (talk • contribs) 13:44, 24 December 2008 (UTC)

Family background
I have had some experience of how frustrating it is to have entries in Wikipedia which you know through personal contacts to be false. In view of the information about Layla's mother and father coming from only one source and the recent edit from a family member (see below) I am removing the claims about where they came from.

OLD TEXT: of Iraqi-Jewish and Polish-Jewish descent. OLD TEXT: an Iraqi father (Edwin Seroussi. "Murād, Laylā." Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Executive Editor Norman A. Stillman. Brill Online, 2014; quote:"Her father, Ibrahim Zakī Murād (né Mordecai), was a Jewish singer and composer of Iraqi (not Moroccan, as often said) origin".) of Jewish descent, Zaki Mourad (named Ibrahim Zaki Mordechai), a respected singer, musician, and religious cantor or Hazan in the twenties, and to a Jewish mother of Polish descent, Gamilah Salmon,...

DELETED EDIT: "I would like to make a correction here, as here Grandfather was my grandfather, as well. First, there is no Iraqi connection here. The family tree is, Mordechai & Leah Assouline, origin, Morocco. Mordechai was born in Morocco, Leah was born Leah Fishman in Poland. They married in Moracco, and emigrated to Egypt and settled in Cairo. They had nine children. One of them my mother Victoria, and of course, the subject of this writing, Issac (Zaki). Mordechai Assouline, was also known as Murad. Both Mordechai & Murad in Western language wuld be Max. As is common among both Jewish and Moslem families, the word ibn (son of) is used to identify the individual as the son of ___________. In this case Zaki became know as Zaki ibn Murad, which later became Zaki Murad. Now, her mother Gamilah Salmon, was not of Polish decent, this is where the confusion is, but of Lebanese decent. I can back this information as I have the birth certificates for all nine children, as well as, the travel documents, of Mordechai Assouline A"H."

Padres Hana (talk) 10:37, 3 June 2014 (UTC)