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Hussein Bicar
Hussein Bicar (1913–2002) graduated in 1933 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Cairo. In 1944, at the time of the establishment of Akhbar El-Youm, Bicar joined the newspaper as an illustrator and subsequently became one of its leading artists. He rose to much fame as a painter and portraitist.
Sabry Ragheb / Hussein Bicar / Georges Bahgory
All three artists portrayed Hassan Heshmat in their own very typical style. Ragheb and Bicar were known as masters of portrait-painting, while Bahgory was also famous for his caricatures.