Badi' Khayri | |
Native Name: | Arabic: بديع خيري |
Birth Date: | 18 August 1893 |
Birth Place: | Cairo, Khedivate of Egypt, Ottoman Empire |
Years Active: | 1912–1966 |
Death Place: | Cairo, United Arab Republic |
Nationality: | Egyptian |
Badī Khayrī (Arabic: بديع خيري; 18 August 1893 – February 1966) was an Egyptian folk lyricist and playwright.[1] He was one of the folk lyricists who took their words and inspiration from old traditional Egyptian folk stories and popular street songs sung by the masses in festivities. Khayri wrote several stories for films such as El Hub Keda (1961).