2022/05/19
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Artists and celebrities have always enjoyed a great following from the public, their artworks going beyond the details of their personal lives.
Activists circulated a picture of a famous Egyptian dancer from childhood, and the image achieved a great interaction in the social media.
She appears in the photo, which was partially damaged by time, wearing a hair band, and many said about her: This dancer is in her innocent stage before entering the field of dance.
It is the Egyptian artist, Najwa Fouad, who ran away from her family in her childhood because she refused to marry an old man, to open the doors of fame and glory before her.
But before Najwa Fouad reached the stage of fame, she went through life and human experiences that refined her personality and made her a bold and expert person.
In this article, Mada Post will mention the most important information and the most prominent stations that the Egyptian artist, Najwa Fouad, went through during her life.
Najwa Fouad is an Egyptian dancer, whose real name is “Awatef Muhammad.” She was born on January 6, 1939 in Alexandria, to an Egyptian father who works as an electrical engineer and a Palestinian mother.
After the death of her Palestinian mother, her father married for the second time to a woman who worked as a seamstress, and she was the one who raised Najwa, treating her as her daughter.
A 12-year-old girl runs away from her father’s house
The Egyptian dancer, Najwa Fouad, ran away from her father’s house when she was 12.
She was accompanied by her second stepmother, who was taking care of her after her mother’s death.
The Egyptian dancer, Najwa, resorted to the idea of escaping because of her father’s decision, which he was determined to marry, to his 43-year-old friend.
From a bad singer to a nightclub dancer..
Najwa suffers after the Egyptian dancer, Najwa Fouad, ran away from her father’s house. She decided to change her name from Awatef to Najwa. At that time, she tried to look for work and found an advertisement for an artist’s office looking for a “telephoneist”.
Najwa met the owner of the office and tried to convince him that she could sing, but he advised her to dance because her voice was very bad, so she started dancing in a nightclub and in weddings and halls.
Between acting, dancing and singing.. Najwa turns to art. In 1975, after her struggles in nightclubs and weddings, Najwa Fouad turned to art, where she participated in her first cinematic work with the movie “Ighraa,” after which her artworks combined acting and dancing.
Najwa participated in 273 artistic works, including films, plays and series. She also participated in the production of 4 films and the Setcom series, and sang in the movie “Born is better than today” produced in 1986.
Najwa Fouad’s artworks During her artistic career, Najwa Fouad participated in many works, including “Watch out for love”, “We start from where the story”, “The Rioters”, “Watch out for men, Mama” and “Shati Al Fun”.
She also appeared in “Knights of the Last Time”, “Kashf Al-Mastoor”, “Dreams of Hind Al-Khashab” and “Mama’s Knot”, and had a role in the series “Zizinia”.
Najwa played distinguished roles in a large number of works, including the play “Zambalita fi Al Mahatta”, “Malik Al Shahateen”, “He is a man”, the series “For the highest price”, “Land of Hypocrisy”, and the movie “Halwat Rouh”.
He played the drum for her.. Najwa Fouad’s relationship with Abdel Halim Hafez. The artist, Najwa Fouad, had a good relationship with her colleagues in the artistic community, but her relationship with the late singer Abdel Halim Hafez was stronger than others.
In an interview, Najwa told her about Abdel Halim, describing him as an unforgettable brother and friend, saying: “Halim is a calm person, an honest person and respects anyone who cares about his work. He always told me (Mango) because he believed in me.”
It is reported that due to the strength of their relationship, a picture was taken of Abdel Halim Hafez and Najwa Fouad, in which he appeared in a casino playing the drum for her to dance, to encourage her to continue her success.
The nightingale did not marry Cinderella
Najwa Fouad denied the rumor of Abdel Halim Hafez’s marriage to the artist Soad Hosni, and attributed the reason to the late singer’s inability to perform his marital duties despite his strong love for Soad Hosni.
In a previous interview with Al-Wafd newspaper, she said: “It never happened that Abdel Halim Hafez married Soad Hosni. Abdel Halim was a very friend and I was the storehouse of his secrets, and once he confessed to me his great love for Cinderella.”
She added, “Abdul Halim assured me at the time that he could not marry her because he lived with a quarter of a liver and was unable to play his role as a man, and for the record, Souad Hosni loved him very much, but she interpreted his words as a desire to escape from the official relationship.”
Najwa Fouad’s Husbands
Najwa married the famous musician Ahmed Fouad Hassan, but their marriage did not last, as she announced their separation, to marry the artist Ahmed Ramzy for only 17 days.
Fouad is said to have breastfed Amr Adeeb when he was still a child.
Najwa married dance coach Kamal Naim, and the famous Chevrolet car dealer in Egypt, Mansour Chevrolet, and then separated from him. She also married businessman Fayez Trad, and then she married Sami Al-Muhandis.
Najwa married Muhammad Musa, the Lebanese Sami Al-Zoghbi, the Kuwaiti businessman Muhammad Al-Mulla, the singer Imad Abdel Halim, and her last husband was Major General Muhammad Al-Sibai.
Ramzy was married for 17 days and another danced in his joy.. Najwa and her husbands The Egyptian artist Ahmed Ramzy married the Egyptian artist Najwa Fouad for a short period of only 17 days, due to his fear of scandal.
Ramzy said that he had gone to visit Najwa Fouad at her home and found her at odds with Ahmed Fouad Hassan, and then he was surprised by a call from a journalist informing him that he would announce that Ramzy was at her home and it would be a scandal.
Although Ramzy was married to a foreigner at this time, he feared for Najwa from the scandal. He decided to marry her, even for a few days, in order to preserve her reputation. Indeed, the marriage was announced and they separated after 17 days.
Actress Najwa Fouad told about her fourth Lebanese husband, Sami Al Zoghbi, despite her strong love for him, but he betrayed her more than once until he got married to one of her friends.
Najwa Fouad dances in front of the Americans.. One of them asked her to marry The artist, Najwa Fouad, danced after the October war in 1973 in front of the then US Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, in a party hosted by President Mohamed Anwar Sadat.
Najwa Fouad stated in an interview that Henry Kissinger liked her and even asked her to marry, saying: “One day I was going to the hotel and I found it empty and decided to go back to my house.”
And Najwa continued, “The hotel management informed me that I should not go because the US Secretary of State Henry Kassinger is coming, and he asked me to sit with him at dinner, and he told me that he wanted to marry me, but I told him that I am married.”
Najwa also danced in front of US President Jimmy Carter, as a picture spread of her dancing in a “Meridian” hotel in front of Jimmy Carter and his daughter and wife Rosalynn Carter next to him in the early eighties.