This child has grown up and has become a symbol of comedy in Egypt and the Arab world, and he died a few months ago.. Strong people will know him!!


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He is one of the symbols of comedy in Egypt and the Arab world. Through a long artistic career, he was able to confirm his stardom and uniqueness in the world of comedy in cinema, theater and television drama as well. He became one of the kings of comedy and laughter over many years.

It is the late star “Samir Ghanem” who left our world a year ago, and who was remembered by his daughter, artist Donia Samir Ghanem, with a picture from his childhood.

The Egyptian artist commented on the image of her late father, saying: “May God have mercy on you, my love, Samir Ghanem.”

Samir Ghanem was born in January 1937, and he has 4 brothers (Sawsan, Somaya, Sayed, Hossam), the eldest of them. Samir Ghanem joined the Police College after high school, following the example of his father, who was an officer, but he was dismissed from it after failing for two consecutive years, so he transferred papers to Faculty of Agriculture at Alexandria University, he also joined the technical teams there.

Samir Ghanem met with George Sidhom and guest Ahmed, and together they formed the famous “Three Lights of the Stage” group, a comedy singing group that shined on the stage by presenting a group of comedic sketches, the most famous of which were (Tabikh Al Malaika, Romeo and Juliet), and then presented the three afterwards. A number of successful films and plays. The band dissolved after the death of guest Ahmed in 1970, and he went with George Sidhom to act together in several plays, the most famous of which was (The Married Ones), and their last theatrical work together was the play (Welcome Doctor).

His star shined in the sky of Fawazeer in the eighties of the twentieth century, he presented a series of Ramadan Fawazeer under the name Fawazeer Fattuta, in which he presented the characters (Samoura) and (Fattuta). Participated in his career in many works such as (Lahfa, Warqat Shafrah, Janab Ya Osta, in La La Land).

It is reported that “Samir” Ghanem married for the first time to a Somali girl who admired him greatly and attended all his plays, and despite his mother’s strong love for her, Samir Ghanem separated from his wife only one year after their marriage due to the different natures, cultures and customs between them.

More than 39 years ago, a beautiful love story began, but its details are somewhat strange, between the late star Samir Ghanem and Dalal Abdel Aziz, where he saw it for the first time when his friend George Sidhom recommended it to him for his participation in the play “Welcome Doctor” in 1981.

Dalal said during her dialogue on the program Her Excellency with the great star Esaad Younes that she fell in love with Samir as soon as he saw him, stressing that he was doing things that would make any girl fall in love with him easily and he would go out with her after the play and buy her Phil, but after marriage he stopped this habit and he was He says to the seller of jasmine salvation Otjozna.

While Samir Ghanem said during his meeting on the Sahranin program with the star Amir Karara: “Frankly, she is the one who loved me first, and I did not think that I was getting married.” Because he is not married, and among them were George Sidhom, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, Mahmoud Morsi, Mahmoud El Meligy and others.

But “Dalal” insisted on marrying “Samir” and the love story between them lasted 4 years until the great comedian agreed to complete the marriage, and Dalal did all of that, even though Samir is 23 years older than her, but she was and still loves him madly, and Dalal gave birth to two daughters from Samir, Donia. The wife of the famous journalist Ramy Radwan and Amal, known as Amy, the wife of the star Hassan Al-Raddad, and the two are now famous stars.

The star, Samir Ghanem, passed away on May 20, 2021, at the age of 84, after suffering from a health problem, as he suffered from a defect in kidney functions, and was subsequently transferred to intensive care in a Mohandessin hospital, and his health deteriorated in the past days until He breathed his last there.

Three months after the death of Samir Ghanem, the Egyptian artist, Dalal Abdel Aziz, died at the age of 61 due to severe complications after being infected with the new Corona virus.

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