Raga'i Wanis conjured up an image of the Painters' Room at Rose Al-Youssef magazine in 1956 showing Salah Jahin, Ahmed Bahaaeddin, Hassan Fouad, Abdel-Ghani Aboul-Enein and Georges Bahgory among many others, with Ihsan Abdel-Qudous at the door
Ihsan Abdel-Qudous
(1919-1990) was a prominent Egyptian journalist, and fiction writer. The son of Rose (Fatma) El-Youssef, Abdel-Qudous received a law degree from Cairo University in 1942. He started as a staff member and later became publisher and chief editor of the magazine, Rose El-Youssef, owned by his mother. His last senior post in Egyptian newspapers was Chairman of the Board of Al-Ahram from 1975-1976.