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With her breathtaking beauty, slender figure, and beautiful attractive features, she managed to grab the spotlight and pull the rug out from under the feet of her competitors.
Coincidence played a major role in the life of the Coptic dancer, Shafiqa, which illuminated her path to glory and fame, and scattered gold and silver on her body.
And she earned a lot of money, so the pockets of the rich went bankrupt, and she was the cause of the loss of the fortunes of many pashas, and she became one of the owners of property inhabiting palaces, but it is impossible to perpetuate the situation.
After the years passed, her beauty withered, her hair turned white, her back bowed, the world turned her back on her, and she lost everything her money, her fame and her lovers, leaving her only a tape of painful memories.
Its end was miserable, similar to the end of Les Miserables. The summary reviews the most important stations in the life of the religious Coptic dancer. Shafiqa was born in 1851 in the Shubra area, to a religious and committed family.
She has been associated with the church since she was young and she used to frequent it constantly, and the residents and passersby in the Shubra area were waiting for the beautiful girl to pass by and take a look at her, while she was going to the church.
Coincidence played a major role in Shafiqa’s entry into the dance field in 1871, when Shafiqa danced in front of the famous dancer “Shawq”, which was the most famous at that time, and she was the only one who was allowed to perform large families’ parties, and Shawq was the dancer who danced at the opening ceremony of the Suez Canal .
The beautiful brown girl drew the attention of “Shawq”, to her as she danced with a group of girls, and they exchanged looks of admiration, and the famous dancer expressed her admiration for the Coptic girl, the son of the conservative family. The door of her house, after she left her family’s house, and in the house of “Shawq”, “Shafiqa” learned the first principles of dance, and her family searched for her a lot, but to no avail.
Several months after she left the house, her family was able to find out her whereabouts, so they sent a priest to advise her to return to her family, but she refused, so her family declared her disavowal, and from that moment Shafiqa attached her name to the Coptic, after her religion.
Only six months later, “Shawq” passed away, and the scene expanded for Shafiqa, who created and spread her reputation and invented some new dances. Within a very short period, Shafiqa rose to the throne of dance and art, and her name became resounding everywhere. A man who admires her has a huge fortune under her feet.
And when Shafiqa was standing on the stage to dance, the golden pounds were sprinkled on her as greetings from the fans and lovers, and she used three servants to collect these pounds, to present them to her after she finished the dance, and it was said that one of these servants kept some of these pounds for himself In a short period of time, he was able to own a large fortune and later became a notable.
Shafiqa traveled to France, where she achieved great success. The Egyptian press called her the “world dancer” and the queen of belly dancing. After that, she received many offers to revive parties and weddings in most European and Arab countries.
Shafiqa reached a point of fame and wealth, which made her live the life of kings and princes, and she was the first woman in Egypt to own “carts”, and many loved her and fans flocked to her.
It is said that many of the rich people spent all their money in order to please her, and there were those who opened bottles of champagne to water their horses. Although the world gave Shafiqa everything, she was deprived of motherhood, so she decided to adopt a child named “Smart” and gave him everything, but his upbringing was in an atmosphere of alcohol, dancing and money without account.
It made him a corrupt young man, so he became addicted to alcohol and drugs, his health deteriorated and he died because of his addiction. Shafiqa suffered greatly for him, and she was also addicted to alcohol and drugs, and when she was old, the fans around her disbanded,
And the queue that she used to see disappeared, she could not bear it, and she began to spend money on young people to feel that she was still desired and loved, until she married a young man who robbed her of all her money and property and left her begging in the streets of Cairo.
Shafiqa Al-Hassir slept in one of the popular houses, and she suffered from a severe illness that she could not resist. She passed away after drinking the cups of humiliation and humiliation. Only two people attended her funeral.