2022/07/29
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Sparks fly from her eyes, and in her voice there is a revolution and anger despite her calmness, which gave her the title of “The Lady of the Arab Screen.”
The story goes back to the sixties of the last century when Mustafa Amin wrote in the magazine “Al-Jeel Al-Jadeed” an article entitled: “I am writing to you from the bed of Faten Hamama.”
The surgeon chose a room in the hospital that would host Amin before the surgery, and in the middle of it was a bed that was too small to fit the founder of Akhbar Al-Youm, who is known for his huge build.
Amin tells in his book “Personal Issues”, issued by Akhbar Al-Youm, that the doctor told him that the bed was small, on which Faten Hamama had been sleeping for days, and that she had a successful surgery.
He went on to write: “I lay in a charming bed, and I found it small and delicate. Half of me was in the bed and half was out of the bed. Charming was small in size and I was huge in size, and it was impossible for me to roll over in the bed, so any movement with it finds me on the floor, and I wrote a sarcastic article describing this bed ( Al-Nono), and I made the article title: (I am writing to you from the bed of Faten Hamama).
Faten Hamama’s eyes fell on the article, and she was sad and shocked, but she decided to overcome her condition and go to Mustafa Amin’s office, saying to him: “How do you distort my reputation? I have preserved my reputation all my life, and no one has harmed it.”
After Amin tried to calm her down, Faten Hamama went on to say, “How can you falsely claim that you slept with me in the same bed?”
The frank accusation, which Faten Hamama adopted, fell on Amin hearing like a thunderbolt, so he asked her in astonishment: “Have you read the article?” So she responded quickly: “No, I read the title.” Here the writer’s face changed and he entered a laughing link followed by a sentence that says: “Read the article.” All, then resume your revolution.
The lady of the Arab screen read the article and laughed, but Amin came out with “wisdom” as he tells in his book, which is not to allow his pen to write articles about Faten Hamama and have her name in the title because he discovered that she only reads him.