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Some Egyptian female artists have mastered the role of seduction, not in its general sense, as if one of them presents one or more scenes, but in its most daring concept, including the late Nahed Sherif.
Samiha Muhammad Zaki Al-Nayal “Nahed Al-Sharif” was born in 1942 in Alexandria. She is the middle daughter among 3 girls. She moved with her family to Cairo in the Zamalek neighborhood,
She joined the French Lycée, but soon the happy life changed to a very cruel one, and this began with her younger sister’s infection with polio.
And she almost got it too, had it not been treated early, and as a result, she continued to have difficulty moving her left hand.
A new shock she received with the departure of her mother on the wedding day of her older sister, Inas, who was 8 years old at the time, and orphanhood and sadness became a part of her life despite attempts
Her father, a police officer, compensated her for this deprivation, but he increased her isolation following imposing many restrictions on her. However, fates did not help him to see his daughter grow up, as he also left when she was only 14 years old.
Samiha dreamed of becoming a famous singer, and she chose the name “Nahed Sharif”, and she wanted a family friend, artist Zubeida Tharwat,
To get her out of her depression, and tried to get her into the artistic community, and indeed her artistic life began by getting to know her as the director of photography, Waheed Farid.
Which was presented to the artist Abdel Salam Al Nabulsi, who gave her a small role in the movie “Habib Hayati” 1958, directed by Niazi Mustafa.
Her extreme shyness was the reason for the delay in her stardom in the cinema, and she began her artistic life with the roles of the innocent girl who was overpowered or the student who falls in love with the hero who deceives her,
But soon she rebelled once morest the directors’ choices for her and put her in this mold, and decided to use her beauty and sexy features in presenting seductive roles, so a complete change took place in her roles,
A member of the People’s Assembly submitted an interrogation to the Minister of Culture for appearing semi-naked on the film’s “fess,” so the minister ordered that Nahid’s body be covered.
After the defeat of 1967, the Egyptian cinema suffered from a state of stagnation, and the exodus of all workers in the industry who found refuge in the studios of Beirut, Damascus, and Istanbul, and presented dozens of films,
Most of them are of poor quality, but the necessities of life forced them to accept this quality instead of unemployment, and among them is Nahed Sharif, especially since she was
The only breadwinner for her sister, who was suffering from paralysis, and needed constant care and expenses, and was not the type to trade his tragedies or complain regarding his condition to gain the sympathy and sympathy of others.
Nahid worked in Lebanese cinema, and was the first Egyptian actress to appear in front of a movie camera, completely nude, in the movie “Wolves Don’t Eat Meat” a Lebanese production in 1973, and many considered the work to be a pornographic film, and it was banned from showing.
The movie “Under the Sky of the City” in 1961 changed the course of her artistic career. It also changed her life. After her cooperation with director Hussein Helmy Al-Muhandis, through the film, he offered her to marry, and despite the age difference between them (20 years), she accepted. Nahid.
She was 18 years old at the time, which made her a social and artistic move, and presented her in several films. She started in the same year of marriage through the movie “A Storm of Love”, in front of the actor Salah Zulficar, but she separated from him without revealing the reasons.
Also during the events of the film, she fell in love with his hero, the first screen boy, Kamal El-Shennawy, but she might not reveal her love, so she kept hiding it and might not get rid of her love,
After her divorce, she called him to meet him, and asked him why the marriage proposal should come from the man and not the woman, so he explained to her that this is a tribute to the woman, so that she is the owner of the opinion and choice.
Al-Shennawi realized the purpose behind her question, which is that Nahid wanted to tell him her feelings towards him, and he hesitated a lot regarding the matter because he was married, and 25 years older than her, until he also declared his love to her, and asked her to co-star in the 1973 movie “Women of the Night”.
Filming began, and neither of them might hide his feelings for the other, until the film was shown and achieved great success, so he offered her to marry,
But secretly, and because Nahed loved him very much, she accepted to be his second wife, but the separation occurred following six years, rejecting the status of the second wife.
4 months before her departure, on December 14, 1980, Akher Sa’a magazine published a report under the title “The Tragedy of Nahed Sharif,” in which it stated that she lives alone in the midst of
Tears and loneliness in her sick bed in London, following which she resorted to the Egyptian embassy there to be assisted by Ambassador Hassan Abu Saada, until she obtained a divorce from her Lebanese husband.
The embassy provided her with an apartment in Middle Six Square in London, and following spending 4 months for treatment, the doctors saw that her return to Cairo might benefit her psychological condition, especially
While making sure that her recovery was impossible, and indeed she returned and completed her role in the movie “Morsi Over Morsi Under,” but she might not complete the “dubbing” and the disease worsened.
She entered the Maadi Hospital of the Armed Forces, and one day before her death, she underwent a “dumping” operation to remove the large amount of water that had accumulated in the area.
The abdominal area, until her soul departed on April 7, 1981, when she was only 43 years old, following suffering with cancer for 5 years.
The last person who visited her two days before her departure was Nadia Lotfi, and her ex-husband, Kamal El-Shennawy, where she wrote her will.
That her older sister raise her daughter, who was then four years old, and instructed them to have a minimalistic funeral, which they did.
In an old press interview that was reported by the Kuwaiti newspaper “Al-Anbaa” to Al-Shennawi, he recounted the details of the last meeting: “I went to find Nahid’s end, and she was a very strange person who was shaken by the disease.”
And it got so bad that he ate it, and I cried under her feet like a crying child who felt parting from his mother, and I will always remember her and feel that I miss the most beautiful thing that was in my life.”
