2022/01/31
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More than 24 years have passed since the departure of the beautiful star Madiha Kamel, whose beauty, tenderness and artistic brilliance in Egyptian cinema was unparalleled.
Madiha lived her artistic life as an actress with a special attraction, her love infiltrating the heart at the speed of a rocket, and her personality carried a lot of attraction and influence on the mind and heart of the audience.
The artist Samir Ghanem discovered her in the mid-sixties when he saw her by chance while she was returning from high school. He was attracted to her beauty and offered her to be an actress.
She agreed, and Madiha Kamel participated with artist Samir Ghanem in more than one work, including the movie “30 Days in Prison” and the movie “You answer her like this, you answer her like this, she is like this.”
Throughout her career, Madiha Kamel presented many films, perhaps the most famous of which is the movie “Ascent to the Abyss”, in which she played the role of a spy.
And her role in the film was classified as a paid scene in Egyptian cinema, and director Kamal Al-Sheikh chose for him the turning point and the starting point for her first-class tournaments, followed by films, the most important of which are “Bright Your Eyes”, “Song on the Corridor” and “Sons of Silence”.
Madiha remained out of the limelight after her retirement and veil until she passed away in January 1997.
Although she is gone, she is still the beautiful star who has an influence on the hearts of her fans. Over the past year, her only daughter, Merham, appeared
As a fashion designer for evening wear and abayas under the name “Madiha Kamel”, she used her mother’s name as the brand of her designs.
Where the daughter of the late artist, Mrs. “Mirham Al Rayes”, and her daughter, the granddaughter of the Egyptian artist, appeared during a previous episode of the program “Al-Satat Ma’arfush Liqubwa”.
On the CBC network, she participated in the episode as a veiled fashion designer, where she talked about her interest in the new in fashion in the world of fashion for veiled women.
Madiha Kamel decided to retire and wear the hijab in 1992 while filming the movie “The Devil’s Gate”, which caused problems between her and the producer, as she had a limited number of scenes left.
She refused to complete the scenes for the remaining two days of filming, which prompted the work team to use a duplexer to complete it, and she refused to appear and refused to take pictures of her with the veil.
In the five years, she went out to deny to the press the rumor of her marriage to the preacher Yassin Rushdi, as was her appearance on the “Very Frank Dialogue” program.
A sensation, especially as she attacked the artistic community, so the episode did not see the light, according to her daughter, “Merham”, in a television interview.
Several months later, the artist Madiha Kamel died on the fourth day of the month of Ramadan, during which she dreamed of her departure.
According to her daughter’s statements: Madiha Kamel used to love the month of Ramadan, because it includes worship and spiritual and mental serenity, and she always bought Ramadan lanterns even after she grew up.
She was always arguing cheerfully with her daughter over the Ramadan lantern, as she used to buy herself a large lantern and buy her daughter “Merham” a small lantern.
The daughter revealed that she found in the cupboard of the artist Madiha Kamel, after her death, a number of religious brochures, which are distributed in condolences as charity for the soul of the deceased.
Her mother printed it and kept it without telling her, and it was distributed after her death. She also discovered many charitable works that her mother was doing in secret.
She indicated that she loved to watch her mother’s work before her death, especially the play A Very Windy Day, where the character bore a great similarity with her.
Her mother’s true personality, but she is no longer able to watch any of her artworks after her death. It is worth noting that the artist Madiha Kamel suffered from heart disease in her life,
During the filming of the series “The Snake” in 1975, she had a stroke, but the disease increased a year before her death and put her in bed for 10 months, which she spent in “Mustafa Mahmoud” hospital, and water accumulated on her lungs and the heart muscle weakened, which prolonged her stay in the hospital.