Sallama (also known as Salamah, ) is an Egyptian film starring Umm Kulthum. It is directed by Togo Mizrahi. The film is written by Bayram al-Tunisi (screenplay) and Ali Ahmad Bakathir (story). Sallama film tells the story of a love affair during the Umayyad Caliphate between a devout man and a slave girl from Mecca named Sallama.
During the Umayyad era, Sallama (Umm Kulthum), with her melodious voice, lived as a slave girl for Sheikh Abu al-Wafa (Abdel Warith Asr). She and her friend Shawq (Zuzu Nabil) tended sheep and helped Umm al-Wafa (Esther Shataah) with household chores. Salama loved to sing and dreamed of one day becoming like the singer Jamila (Souad Zaki) or the singer Hababa (Rafia al-Shal). When she met the shepherd Hakim (Fakher Fakher), she asked him to teach her to sing. He taught her a single song, which she sang, and all the girls in the neighborhood joined in, singing along while Shawq danced and Umm al-Wafa played the tambourine.
All the songs in the film were written by Bayram al-Tunisi and composed by Zakaria Ahmed, with the exception of the poem "They Said I Love the Priest Salama," which was written by Ali Ahmed Bakathir and composed by Riad al-Sunbati, and part of the poem "O Far-Away Home" by Abbas ibn al-Ahnaf, which was composed by Zakaria Ahmed.