She is the Egyptian artist, Amina Rizk, who is one of the pioneers of art, as she spent a long life in his presence, and gave her life to him, but she did not marry. She was born in Tanta on April 15, 1910. Her love for art began from childhood and her artistic giving continued even before her death in 2003, at the age of 93. A year in a few months.
Amina Rizk began her artistic career in very difficult circumstances, as society condemned the work of art and refused the exit of women, but she rebelled once morest the prevailing reality and stormed the world of theater and cinema and became the star of tragedy.
In a rare television interview, the artist, Amina Rizk, spoke with the great journalist Mufid Fawzi regarding the reasons for her reluctance to marry, even though she is beautiful and from a large family. She said with a smile on her face: “I ran out of men’s skin, but on stage I wore a wedding veil and engagement ring many times.”
Amina Rizk “The Enemy of Men” The Egyptian actress, Amina Rizk, was given several nicknames, the most famous of which is “the enemy of men”, because she refused to marry and decided to devote herself to art.
And regarding the reasons for this, she said, in her interview with the journalist Mofeed Fawzy: “I used to see in every tragedy that I embody or read that the man was the cause of it following he casts the magnet of love on the woman. She respects men, but she will not marry and will devote herself to art.
She added, “I was afraid of marriage because of what I heard regarding the sad stories of my friends. I married the theater and moved away from love and marriage.”
Despite Amina Rizk’s position on marriage and that she got engaged more than 40 times, she was forced to marry following pressure from her family, as many had proposed to her, including a person named “Wahbi”, and with her family’s insistence on him, she agreed to the engagement from him, But following a while, she took advantage of his travel abroad, very shortly before their wedding, and sent him his network, and she returned to her art work.
And this person asked her to get engaged once more, and she found great insistence from her family that they even threatened her that they would absolve her, so she had to agree following a week of pressure on her, but he asked her to contract the marriage, in order to guarantee her.
Amina agreed that it would be an engagement only while she was in her father’s house, but she was surprised by him asking her to exercise his legitimate rights, but she refused, saying that there was no reason for her to fulfill his request for his legitimate rights; The divorce took place.
