The body of Abdel Halim Hafez, to Cairo at three in the morning on an Egyptian plane, following he died in a London hospital, on March 30, 1977, following suffering with the disease that had occurred since his childhood and had grown up with him over the years.
His body was accompanied by Mrs. Nahla Al-Qudsi, the wife of the late artist Mohamed Abdel Wahab, who sent her to visit him because of his fear of flying, the lawyer Magdy Al-Amrousy, the sister of Abdel Halim Alia Shabana, and her cousin Shehata.
The body was received at the airport by two brothers, Nightingale Ismail and Muhammad Shabana, and a large number of artists, led by Baligh Hamdi, Sayed Ismail, Hussein Kamal, as well as Mr. Muhammad Al-Bassam, the media attaché at the Saudi Embassy.
