Hamdy Ahmed Mohamed Khalifa (; 9 November 1933, Sohag, Egypt â 8 January 2016) was an Egyptian actor. He is known for his role as Mahjoub Abdel Dayem in the film Cairo 30 (1966). Ahmed was a parliamentary representative for the district of Bulaq at the time of the forcible relocation of the population of that quarter to public housing in the az-Zawiya al-Hamra district in the periphery of Cairo. He was a member of the Labour Party of Egypt, but left it in 1984. Ahmed was also a columnist for the newspaper Elosboa (çÃÂãóèÃÂù).