The Prominent personalities of Beni Suef University: Director Salah Abu Seif, Sheikh Taha Al-Fashni, Pope Kyrolos V, Imam Al-Busiri
The University Council of Beni Suef, headed by Prof. Dr. Mansour Hassan, No. 168, in the presence of the Vice-Presidents of the University, the deans of the faculties and the members of the Council, agreed to design commemorative statues for Beni Suef Prominent personalities.
The University President explained that four statues of four Prominent personalities from Beni Suef Governorate were completed for director Salah Abu Saif, Sheikh Taha Al-Fashni, Pope Kyrolos V and Imam Al-Busiri. They will be placed in prominent places at the university administration.
It is worth mentioning that the director Salah Abu Seif, a pioneer of realist cinema, was born on May 10, 1915 in the province of Beni Suef center Wasta village Alhomah. He directed his first feature film (He Is Always in My Heart) in 1946, and directed the film Al Qadisiya in 1982, one of his most prominent works (the beginning, Hamam Al-Malatili, Second Wife, Cairo 30).
Sheikh Taha Hassan Morsi Al - Fashni is one of the flags of the readers of the Koran. He was born in 1900 in Al-Fashn Center in Beni Suef Governorate. He joined the Egyptian Radio in 1937. He was elected President of the Readers' Association, succeeding Sheikh Abdel Fattah Al-Shaasha'i in 1962. He was died on December 10, 1971. Sheikh Taha was the owner of a unique school in reciting and singing. The presidency of the art of singing in his time was not topped by one,he was the most famous personality of this art after Sheikh Ali Mahmoud. One of the most famous works was the birth of Taha, O Mukhtar.
His Holiness Pope Cyril V, the 100th and twelfth Pope, was born in the village of Tizmant of Beni Suef in 1824 and became a monk in 1844. In the monastery of the Pramus in the name of the monk John the Priest, and was known in the name of John the scribe. Two years after his monastic order, the monks asked him to appoint a priest. In 1855, Pope Demetrius called him a priest and called him a clergyman and appointed him as an assistant in the Cathedral Church in Azbekia. He was named Patriarch of the First Church in November 1874. On behalf of Pope Cyril V. The celebration was attended by the children of Khedive Ismail, Tawfiq Pasha, Hussein Pasha Kamel and Hassan Pasha, along with the ministers.
Imam al-Boussiri is the son of Mohammed bin Said bin Hammad Sanhaji al-Busiri, a poet of Sanhaji who was famous for his prophetic praises, one of his most famous works is the "Doric planets in praise of the good of the wilderness." Al-Busiri was born in the town of Busir, the center of Al-Wasati in Beni Suef on 7 March 1213, and died in 1295.