Hamama (; also known in Byzantine times as Peleia ) was a Palestinian Arab town of over 5, 000 inhabitants that was depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

Hamama was located near the site of a battle between the Crusaders and the Fatimids in 1099, resulting in a Crusader victory.

In 1596, Hamama was a village in the Ottoman nahiya of Gaza ( Sanjak Gaza ), with a population of 462.

The seventeenth-century traveller al-Nabulsi recorded that the tomb ( qabr ) of Shaykh Ibrahim Abi Arqub was located in the village, while the Sufi traveller al-Bakri al-Siddiqi visited Hamama in the mid-eighteenth century, after leaving al-Jura.

Under the British Mandate in Palestine, a village council was established to administer local affairs, and Hamama had a mosque, and two primary schools for boys and girls established in 1921.

Hamama was one of the villages named in the orders to the IDF battalions and engineers platoon, that the villagers were to be expelled to Gaza, and the IDF troops were " to prevent their return by destroying their villages.

Dahlan was born to a refugee family from Hamama ( now in Israel ), the youngest of six children.

Hamama made her screen debut in 1939, when she was only seven years old.

After a seven-year hiatus from acting, Hamama returned in 2000 in what was a much anticipated television miniseries, Wajh al-Qamar ( وجه القمر, Face of the Moon ).

In 2000, Hamama was chosen as Star of the Century by the Egyptian Writers and Critics organization.

Faten Hamama was born to a Muslim lower middle class family in Mansoura, Egypt ( according to her birth certificate ), but she claims she was born in Cairo, in the Abdeen quarter.

Her father, Ahmed Hamama, worked as a clerk in the Egyptian Ministry of Education and her mother was a housewife.

Hamama says she was influenced by Assia Dagher as a child.

The film attracted widespread media attention, and Hamama, who was only 15 at the time, became famous for her melodramatic role.

The 1950s were the beginning of the golden age of the Egyptian cinema industry and Hamama was a big part of it.

Hamama is also known for playing the lead role in the first Egyptian mystery film Manzel Raqam 13 ( منزل رقم 13, House Number 13 ).

Later Hamama passed into Muslim Mamluk hands, and by 1333 / 4 CE ( 734 H .) some of the income from the village formed part of a waqf of the tomb ( turba ) and madrasa of Aqbugha b. Abd Allah in Cairo.

Two days later, a unit from Nitzanim opened fire on Hamama residents, killing one, and on February 17, a group of workers waiting for a bus on the road between Isdud and the town were fired upon, wounding two.

By then several refugees from nearby towns were in Hamama, most of them, along with many of Hamama's residents, fled with the withdrawing Egyptian troops.

Mohammed Dahlan's family is originally from Hamama.

* Hamama from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

Hamama is identified as the fifth century CE Byzantine town of Peleia.

Peleia translates as " dove ", and when the Arabs conquered it through the Rashidun Caliphate in the seventh century, the town received its Arabic name Hamama meaning " dove ", reflecting its Byzantine roots.

He also starred with his wife, Egyptian actress Faten Hamama, in several movies as romantic leads.

The troops found " not a living soul " in Hamama.

* Welcome To Hamama, at Palestine Remembered.

Faten Hamama (,, born 1931 27 may ) is an Egyptian producer and an acclaimed actress of film, television, and theatre.

Revered as an icon in Egyptian and Middle Eastern cinema, Hamama has substantially helped in improving the cinema industry in Egypt and emphasizing the importance of women in cinema and Egyptian society.

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