Ali Muheeb

Ali Muheeb earned university degrees in fine arts and education, and began working as a teacher while competing in the sport of diving. He won several national titles, including in 1959, which led to his selection to represent the United Arab Republic (due to Egypt’s union with Syria) at that year’s Mediterranean Games. There, he won gold in the springboard and silver in the platform. He then finished 32nd and last at the 1960 Rome Olympics, and retired from active competition immediately thereafter. Muheeb’s career in the arts led him to television animation, where he became an Egyptian pioneer in the field, establishing the first animation studio in the Middle East.