Abdessalam el-Nabulsi died in 1968 according to this publication: (دنيا الوطن) So his photo was certainly taken before that date as part of a promotional kit distributed free to the media.
This photo was taken in a scene in a movie shot around the year mentioned, entitled "لحن حبي" and first published in Egypt in the Egyptian Daily News Papers, around the same period.
I do not know the name of the photographer of the photo, but this photo belongs to the Egyptian Government, because all companies in Egypt became public in 1961, when the late President Jamal Abdel Nasser implemented a socialist system. So the film and every thing related to it became government property. As a matter of fact this was the case with all films that were produced before this date. According to Al Ahram weekly published in Egypt, in an article that was written by Farid Samir and published in the issue of the week 23-29, 2006.
English: A portrait picture of Abdessalam el-Nabulsi an Egyptian actor who was born in Akkar Lebanon, in 1899 and died in Beirut. Though Originally from the Levant, his career started in Egypt where he spent most of his life and became Egyptian.
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