Enas Al Degheidy asked for a license to “brothels” and therefore divorced her husband, who converted to Islam for her

Egyptian director​Einas AldaghediShe is the first Egyptian director to graduate from the Higher Institute of Cinema in 1975. She has a strong and daring personality. In her films, she touched on sensitive social and legal issues, including the Egyptian Penal Code and the marriage of underage girls. The beginning was with the movie “Excuse me, the law” in 1985, starring Mahmoud Abdel Aziz and Naglaa Fathi, which sparked a controversy over the conviction of a woman in the case of adultery and not convicting a man in the same case as an honor crime.

its inception

I was bornEinas AldaghediIn March 1953. Her father was a teacher of the Arabic language in Al-Azhar schools, and he played a large part in the formation of her personality. She graduated from the Higher Institute of Cinema in Cairo.

Her artistic career

I workedEinas AldaghediAssistant director for more than one important cinematic work, led by the movie “Mouths and Rabbits”, where she participated in a small role as an actress, “Asfour Al Sharq”, “When Men Cry”, “The Night of Fatima’s Arrest” and others. Her first movie was in 1985, “Oops, Law”.
The outcome of her work as a director amounted to 16 feature films, and she also presented 7 works as a producer, as the beginning was through the “Five Star” company, to present the following films: “Estakoza”, “Dantella”, “The Red Rose”, “Kalam Al-Layl” and “” Memoirs of a Teenager”, “Seekers of Freedom” and “We Don’t Come to Dance We Dance”.

daring movies

was thePresented by FlamEinas AldaghediDistinctive and bold and the audience longs to follow it. She often collaborated with new actors and participated in the stardom of others, including actress Hend Sabry, after she presented her to the Egyptian audience through the movie “Diaries of a Teenager” in 2001. Her selection of sensitive and legal social issues in her films contributed to her exposure to the resentment of clerics and legal authorities. She presented her first movie, “Excuse me, Law”, where it deals with the conviction of a woman in the event of committing the crime of killing her husband in the case of adultery, in return for not convicting the man in the same case as an honor crime. She was able to shed light on the injustice in the Egyptian Penal Code.
It was also severely attacked because of the movie “Cheap Meat”, which discussed the issues of marrying off young girls in the villages of Egypt to old men and from other countries in exchange for money for the parents and the mediator who was carrying out these operations in the mid-nineties of the last century.
After the movie “Diaries of a Teenager”, it was demanded to stop showing these works, and the accusation came, that these films violate Egyptian customs and traditions, and include bold scenes calling for moral decay, in addition to accusing the censorship of artistic works of violating the law, and abandoning its responsibilities by agreeing to show the film, as At least it didn’t advertise that it’s for adults only.

Marriage and relationship with God

Marked statementsdirectorEinas AldaghediShe shocked the public and was not safe from comments and attacks on a permanent basis, including what she said with the media, Raghida Shalhoub, in the “100 Questions” program, where she demanded the licensing of brothels, considering that it is the oldest profession in history and the solution to ending harassment issues, as it protects society from murder, disease and crime. And drugs, rather than this happening in the dark.
Among her bold statements, when she said: “I told my Josie at the beginning of my life, if you betray me, I will betray you, and my strength must remain, and I will be tired.”
She also indicated that she spoke with God, saying: “I spoke to our Lord and told him about needs in religions that I did not believe.” ?”, adding, “This dream did not shake my faith, and my relationship is strong with our Lord, and God stood by my side and gave me more than I deserve.”
She also criticized the hijab and the artists who wear the hijab, saying, “May God not write on me the hijab, which people wear now because I don’t like it, and the hijab has become a fashion, and not every hijabi is religious, and whoever wears the hijab does not have anything to do with acting and sitting at home.”

her personal life

got marriedEinas AldaghediFrom the Egyptian dentist Nabil Moawad, who announced his conversion to Islam before marrying her, and they had one daughter, “Habiba”, but they separated after 29 years when he passed away in 2016, which saddened her greatly, and she rejected the idea of ​​marriage despite receiving many offers.

awards

I got the directorEinas AldaghediShe received a number of Arab and international awards, including the first work award from the Egyptian Film Association in 1985 and a certificate of appreciation from the Council of the Film Professions Syndicate in 1986, then she received an appreciation award from the Egyptian Association of Film Writers and Critics in 1989, and then the award of the eleventh National Festival of Egyptian Arts Then two awards from the 13th Alexandria International Film Festival in 1997 for Best Directing and Production.
It also won the Best Film Award from the Cairo International Film Festival in 2001, as well as a thank you award from the Beirut Film Festival in 2001 and the Best Film Award from the Cairo International Film Festival in 2004, then a certificate of appreciation from the 32nd Annual Film Association Festival of the Cinema Association in 2005.

TV Presentation

SubmittedEinas AldaghediMore than one experience in the world of television presentation, including the “Al-Jari’ah” program, which was shown in Ramadan for more than one season, and then stopped, and then repeated the experience through “Sheikh Al-Hara”, for which she apologized after two seasons, and commented on this that she encourages freedoms and this program. It does not correspond to her beliefs and character.