Ḥusayn Ḥilmī al-Mānistirlī

Biography

Husayn Hilmi al-Manistirli was a lyric poet and film writer.

Muhammad Khayr Ramadan Yusuf reports handwritten originals preserved by his daughter Huriyya and songs and monologues collected in a folklore series. Film records credit his lyrics for Fi Layla Mumtira and Layla al-Badawiyya. These sources do not establish the inherited English description of him as a singer.