In an influential video broadcast by the artist Menna Jalal on social media, she revealed that the Egyptian dancer and artist Nagwa Fouad She lives a real tragedy, where she suffers from illness, loneliness, lack of income, and her joblessness despite her urgent need.
The famous dancer explained that she complains of neglect and neglect, adding that no one asks about her or about her conditions and illness but only 3, and they are Menna Jalal, Saeeda Jalal and the artist Nabila Obeid, who she described as sincere.
Fouad also said in an interview with “Al Arabiya Net” that she suffers from herniated disc disease, specifically between the fourth and fifth paragraphs, and is currently undergoing physiotherapy, which hinders her movement and makes her need someone to help her fulfill her requests and meet her needs.
Ignore the Artists Guild
She stated that the cartilage pain affected the nerve and caused her great pain, expressing her dissatisfaction with the Actors Syndicate’s ignoring her, ignoring and neglecting her colleagues in the artistic community, and not asking them about her in light of her noticeable absence or assigning any work to her.
Najwa Fouad dancing in front of Kissinger
She also added that she was sad because she had been sick for a year and a half without any of her colleagues remembering her, stressing that those who asked about her were friends from outside the middle.
In addition, she mentioned that she and all members of her generation raced to serve the artist, Farid Shawqi, when he fell ill, which is what they did with the late artist Mahmoud Yassin.
She described what is happening towards her as neglect and forgetfulness, not ingratitude, calling for the intervention of the Captain and the Minister of Culture to take into account the conditions of great artists and to oblige producers and production companies to assign them works of art through which they can obtain funds that help them meet the requirements of life.
Established a production company
It is noteworthy that Najwa Fouad was born on January 6, 1943 in Alexandria, worked as a dancer, then entered the artistic field and participated in many films.
She founded a film production company and produced many films and worked in some plays, including the beginning and the end, and then announced her retirement from dancing in 1998.
Najwa Fouad dancing in front of Carter
She was also one of the most famous dancers of her generation, and she danced in front of former US President Jimmy Carter and former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who asked to watch her dance and art during his visit to Cairo in 1976. In front of him are Nubian folk dances and others from Upper Egypt.
While Kissinger is not the only one who admired Fouad’s art, but the former US President Jimmy Carter was keen to sit at a table in the “Meridian” Hotel to watch her dance and he was expressing his admiration and her art in front of everyone.