Safiyah Muhandis
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| Safiyah Muhandis | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1922/12/12 |
| 20072007 | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Egyptian |
| 🏫 Education | B.A. English Department |
| 💼 Occupation | Journalist, Politician |
Safiyah Muhandis is an Egyptian broadcaster, born in 1922. She was nicknamed the mother of Egyptian broadcasters[1], her father is the linguist Zaki Mohamed Muhandis, and her brother is the late artist Fouad Muhandis. She married the radio broadcaster Muhammad Mahmoud Shaaban (Baba Sharo). She obtained a Bachelor of degree, English Department. She is one of the founders of the Egyptian Radio and one of the first female voices. She participated the Women's Segment, which turned into the "Housewives" program, in which she presented solutions to many problems that were sent to her by mail to the radio address of the Housewives Program. She has won many awards from the Ministry of Culture and Media and the Medical Syndicate.
The late great media personality, Safiyah Muhandis, was known as the “Mother of Broadcasters” not because of her old age, or because she was a prominent name and lived through the generation of the first pioneers of radio broadcasters, but because she was actually the mother of all broadcasters with the love, kindness, and assistance she was known for, and her continuous guidance with her long experiences for any of the generations that followed her, as well as her programs and radio works that affect the Egyptian family, and Arab women in general. It is also considered the first female radio voice that was launched not only on the Egyptian radio, but also on the radio stations of the Arab East as a whole.
Safiyah was born on the twelfth of December 1922 in one of the oldest neighborhoods in Cairo, the Abbasid neighborhood, to a long respectable family, where her father, Zaki Bey Muhandis, was Dean of the Faculty of Dar Al Uloom Cairo University, and Vice President of the Arabic Language Academy, during that period in which he was The Dean of Arabic Literature, Taha Hussein, was the head of the academy, and her younger brother is the artist Fouad Muhandis, and her sister is Mrs. Doria Muhandis.[2]
Safiyah joined the Sunni School in the year 1937 and showed ingenuity and excellence in her studies, and besides that, she joined the school’s social activity. She was a prominent member of the school public speaking group, because of her clear distinction in writing and pronouncing the Arabic language in a simple and elegant style, due to the family’s interest in the Arabic language, specifically her father, which was reflected on the children, specifically Fouad and Safiyah. Her father, which was reflected on the children, especially Fouad and Safiyah.
Safiyah was not satisfied with her mastery of public speaking, so she was tempted to join the acting team besides that, and after obtaining her baccalaureate degree, she joined the Faculty of Arts, the English Department, to obtain a BA in 1945. A friend of her father, the pioneer of the Egyptian radio at the time, broadcaster Mohamed Fathi and Abdel Wahab Youssef, persuaded her to work on the Egyptian radio, a proposal that was accepted and welcomed, and at the same time this has fulfilled and cherished the wish that she had long wished for since her participation in the public speaking team and school radio.
Indeed, Safiyah took the test in Alexandria under the supervision of the great broadcaster Muhammad Mahmoud Shaaban or "Baba Sharo", who approved her as a radio presenter. After that, the great launch of the pioneering media career was the Egyptian radio, where she started with successive successes, since 1945 as an air announcer and two years later she became responsible for the women's corner In the Egyptian radio and director of Variety programmes, then director of the general program, and she rose in many leadership positions in the radio before she gets promoted to become the president of the radio, as the first woman to take this important position on the twenty-seventh of September 1975 until the eleventh of December 1982, when she reached the age of Retirement. However, her relationship with the microphone was not interrupted by her retirement, so she continued presenting her famous programs until a short period before her departure.
Safiya Muhandis loved radio ultimately, which made her reject all temptations of image and appearance through television, as several offers have been pouring in on her since television entered Egypt in 1960, but she flatly refused to leave her position behind the radio’s microphone, and she remained loyal to it throughout her journey. During the years of her work on the radio, several generations graduated with her teachings, and she taught a large number of senior broadcasters and media professionals. She worked on refining their talents and introducing them until she deservedly deserved the title “Mother of Broadcasters”, and a big celebration was held for her on the occasion of her obtaining this title and she was very happy with it.
At the time of Safiyah’s application to work in the radio station in 1947, Muhammad Mahmoud Shaaban was president of the radio, and it seems that his tests for her were not just to test her abilities to work as a broadcaster as much as they were tests for him to see if she would be a good wife for him, as it did not take long for her to join the work until he married her, while He treated her the worst, and when he proposed to her, everyone was surprised, but he told her: “I was treating you like this until I tested the extent of your endurance capabilities.” The marriage took place at the end of 1950 and was a quantum leap in her life. Each of them is in his field, so “Baba Sharu” chose the kingdom of the child, while Safiya chose the kingdom of the woman, and the prize for each of them was the love of millions of listeners.
Safiyah Muhandis’s career was long, she started in 1947 through women’s programs, beginning with the “Women’s Corner” program, where there was no special program for women on the Egyptian radio before, and for this she collected the conversations of famous women such as Amina Al-Saeed, Bint Al-Shati and Dr. Suhair Al-Qalamawi to broadcast them in her program Then she prepared her famous program "Housewives", which included drama, educational talks and the dramatic program "Diaries of an Egyptian family", "The Marzouk Effendi Family".
Safiyah Muhandis started on the radio as a broadcaster and newscast reader, and she was the first woman to break into this field. In presenting women’s programmes, the caring mother was a professor in the art of life and work and guiding the Egyptian family through “Rushta” (Prescription) success, consensus and keenness on authentic values, guiding women, building their awareness and advocating family cohesion.
Safiyah Muhandis was known for her melodious voice and was the morning’s friend to most Egyptian families. During her career, this great woman held many positions within the Egyptian radio, including: Supervisor of the Women’s Program in 1965, General Director of the General Program Radio in 1967, then Vice President of the Radio, then President of the Radio in the period from 1975 until 1982 until she was retired in 1982 and was chosen in 1999 as a member of the Board of Trustees of the Radio and Television Union, then a member of the Consultative Assembly Council and a member of the National Council of Arts, until she left our world on June 13, 2007 at the age of 84 and left us with have a great broadcasting legacy.
References[edit]
- ↑ "صفية المهندس.. "أم الإذاعيين المصريين" وأول صوت نسائي في الراديو | احكي". web.archive.org. 2019-05-31. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
- ↑ "صفية المهندس.. "أم الإذاعيين المصريين" وأول صوت نسائي في الراديو | احكي". web.archive.org. 2019-05-31. Retrieved 2022-04-20.
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