Ahmed Dash…an acting experience that matures in silence art

The children of the Egyptian screen are many, starting with Fairouz and other stars of the golden age of Egyptian cinema, until now, where every year we get to know new children on the screen such as “Ali Al-Bili,” “Retal Abdel Aziz,” “Yasmina Al-Abd,” and others in recent years. However, the child actor’s dilemma does not stop at his appearance in a successful movie or series, but rather how he continues after he matures and transforms from a famous child into a young man or woman. These child stars have often disappeared over the years, and have become a memory even while they are still in their twenties and thirties.

The young actor Ahmed Dash did not fall into this trap. He started while he was still a child, to overcome the child actor dilemma and become one of the most prominent sons of this wave of young actors on the scene today.

Starting with “No offense”

Ahmed Dash was born at the beginning of the millennium. He began his artistic career by appearing in a number of television advertisements that attracted attention to him during his childhood. But the turning point in his life came when director Amr Salama chose him for the starring role in the movie “No Moadha” (2014), to play the character of Hani, a Christian child who moves to a government school after the sudden death of his father, to face for the first time a clash between classes and religion in the new society he enters, and learns different tricks that allow him to integrate into his new society.

The film “No blame” received some criticism, such as that its climax was very expected, in addition to the state of contradiction that the film focused on superficially presenting between Hani’s old and new world, but the best thing about it was represented by the natural and honest performance of Ahmed Dash, and in the emerging friendship relationship between him and the child of popular origins, Moamen (Moaz Nabil).

Despite his young age at this stage, he presented Hani’s complex personality. He is not just a victim of circumstances beyond his control, and he is not presented as the child prodigy in his new school, but rather a child struggling in circumstances that he partially understands and who is forced to live them in the best way possible. Dash was able to show different aspects of the personality, such as the desire to belong, and embarrassment when forced to hide his identity.

After the movie “No Blame”, Ahmed Dash participated in a number of distinguished cinematic works, such as the movie “Clash” (2016) by director Mohamed Diab, in which he gave an honest performance that reflects the fear and anger of young people in a pivotal moment. Then he participated in the movie “Photocopy” (2017) alongside Mahmoud Hamida and Sherine Reda.

“Seventh Neighbor” and the famous teenager

What helped Ahmed Dash continue throughout his decade-long career was his smooth transition between different age stages without raising the audience’s surprise, as he actually grew up in front of the spectators step by step. The series “Seventh Neighbor” (2017) in particular contributed to this transitional phase, as the series extended for approximately 60 episodes, in which Dash presented the character of Abdul Rahman, the spoiled son of Mrs. Lamia (Dalal Abdul Aziz), a teenage boy who oscillates between childhood and youth.

Great harmony appeared between Ahmed Dash and the late Dalal Abdel Aziz throughout the episodes of the series, which established him in the character of the teenage son in a number of subsequent television works, in roles that ranged in size from limited to large, prominent works and others that went unnoticed, including, for example, “Taya,” “Nasl al-Agharab,” and “The Prince.”

One of his most important works at this stage is the movie “Abu Saddam” (2021) with director Nadine Khan, in which he played the role of a follower or assistant to a transport truck driver, whose role in the movie is played by Mohamed Mamdouh. Here is the popular young man who not only learns the profession of driving transport cars from his teacher, “Abu Saddam,” but also the meanings of manhood in its popular form, and enters with him into conflicts that he did not expect at the beginning of his journey, which was supposed to be normal.

As for his most famous role as a teenage son, he was Saif in “Jaafar Al-Omda” (2023), the series that invaded homes and cafes in the Arab world, as viewers gathered around the television waiting for the melodramatic moment in which Saif (Ahmed Dash) learns that he is the lost son of Jaafar Al-Omda (Mohamed Ramadan).

Championships came timidly at first

Ahmed Dash did not confine himself to the frame of a teenage son in serials and films. Rather, he tried to break out of this limited circle with series in which he took on major roles, and in which he can even be considered its hero. The first of which is “The Thief” (2020) and its two parts, which did not achieve sufficient success or even the expected spread.

However, his next step was more successful, when he collaborated again with director Nadine Khan in the series “Who Qal?!” Which was shown during the Ramadan season of 2022, and it is one of the first “Warsh Sarda” series that established its own artistic style. In this series, he played the role of Sherif, the son of an upper middle-class family. The father works hard to provide his son with an education at a private university with high fees to become an engineer in the future. However, the son dreams of his own project, and the expected clash between the two wills occurs in the end as expected.

The success of this series qualified him for a bigger step in 2024, represented by the series “Masar Egbari”, also directed by Nadine Khan, and co-starring with Issam Omar, in a less light-hearted theme than “Who Said?!” For Dash, and “Balto” for Omar.

Here they are brothers from the same father, neither of whom is knownwhat With the presence of the other, or with their father’s marriage to two different women except before his death, leaving behind a legacy of family crises, in addition to his involvement with a gang that threatens the lives of his two sons if they are not able to uncover the mystery behind the murder of an unknown girl to them, so the plot takes a truly forced path that pushes them to bond as brothers.

Ahmed Dash took another leap in his career by starring in the movie “Stars of the Coast” during the Eid al-Fitr 2025 season. The movie competed with “Sikoo Siko” at the box office, but it did not achieve the expected success, whether critically or commercially, even though it placed him among the box office stars for the first time.