The star, Nabila Obeid, said, in statements to the seventh day, that the director Ali Abdel-Khaleq was a friend of her life, and that since she got to know him and worked with him in the movie Shader of the Fish, she felt that he is a man who believes in God very much, and in God’s judgment and destiny, and he respects and loves the actors, and deals with everyone Respectfully and politely, he was light-hearted and everyone laughed to soften the difficult atmosphere of photography.
Nabila Obeid explained that she was always in contact with Ali Abdel-Khalek, and during his illness she was very sad when she heard his voice in pain from the disease, and Nabila Obaid indicated while crying that she believed that everyone would die, but separation is the most difficult thing in the matter, praying to God to have mercy on him and be patient. “Basant” and “Hisham” are the sons of director Ali Abdel Khaleq.
Nabila Obeid added that Ali Abdel-Khaleq is of great artistic value, and he presented many important works, and that he understands well in writing the script, and that she presented with him a number of the most important works in her cinematic history, including: The Path of Rahab, Hanakish, Shader Al-Sammak and The Threshold of Sixes.
The great director Ali Abdel-Khaleq is one of the symbols of Egyptian and Arab cinema and one of the pioneers of the new cinema group that achieved a civilizational shift in Egyptian cinema when it confronted in 1968 the humorous cinema that prevailed after the setback of June 1967.
Ali Abdel-Khaleq presented his first movie, a song on the corridor, which was the reason for raising the morale of the soldiers on the fighting fronts in Egypt and Syria after the setback defeat and was a motive for steadfastness and what the armed forces achieved during the glorious October victory.
He studied at the Higher Institute of Cinema, Department of Directing, and after graduating from the institute in 1966, he worked as an assistant for a while and then turned to directing documentaries, and one of the most famous of these films is his documentary film “Farewell Song”, which won many international awards from documentary and short film festivals, including the second prize from The “Leipzig” Film Festival in Germany, and his film “Suez is My City” won the first prize from the first Documentary Film Festival of the Ministry of Culture in 1970. He presented his first feature film in 1972, entitled “Song on the Corridor” for a play of the same name by the writer (Ali Salem), The film was a huge artistic success, and won the second prize from the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival and a prize from the Tashkent Film Festival. At the end of the seventies, he directed such as (The Traveler Without a Road) 1978, and (Farid Shawqi) in (The Devils) 1980.[2] During the eighties, he formed a duet with the author (Mahmoud Abu Zaid) in several successful cinematic films such as: (Shame) 1982, (Kif) 1985, (Running the Monsters) 1987, (The Egg and the Stone) 1990. Beginning in the nineties, the number of films he directed decreased. Abdel-Khaleq went to television drama in the early 2000s, and presented several series, including: (Najma al-Jamahir) 2003, (The Second Gate) 2009.