2022/03/05
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One of the people with special touches on the screen when she appears in one of the roles, as she embodies the meaning of femininity. Her attractive appearance is enough to attract you to her at first sight.
It is the artist Raghda who, although she has divine gifts, her relationship with men often did not exceed rumors and a single marriage story, in addition to a famous love story with the late artist Ahmed Zaki.
She was born in Aleppo, Syria, to a Syrian father and mother. She came to Egypt in 1980 to complete her studies in Arabic literature at the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, and turned to acting.
She worked between Egypt and Syria in the cinema, television and theater, and she had participations on the radio. Her success appeared following her participation in the championship, the artist Duraid Lahham and the writer Mohamed Al-Maghout in the film The Borders in 1984 and the film Al-Report in 1986, and she is considered one of the stars of Egyptian and Arab cinema in my decade.
eighties and nineties of the twentieth century.
And regarding her opinion of men, the artist Raghda said during a television interview that she believes that 99% of men are traitors, except for those who did not have the opportunity to betray.
And she continued: “If the remaining 1% were given the opportunity, they would cheat on their wives, and the matter reached during the meeting that the interviewee confronted her with the sayings of some that she had replaced men in her life with dogs.”
And that the tender-hearted man she met in her life was her father, and that in her life she met the educated claimant and the child man without talking regarding the details or mentioning the names of these men.
“Ahmed Zaki…the most prominent story”
The most prominent relationship in the life of the artist Raghda remains her relationship with Ahmed Zaki, which everyone talked regarding, and despite that, they did not get married, and in one of the television interviews, Raghda said: “Ahmed Zaki did not need to talk to understand him, and the state of love between us was different. The chemistry between us was on a technical and personal level as well.”
Raghda spoke regarding the great imprint that Ahmed Zaki left in her artistic career, and that her “cinematic glow” was following her participation Ahmed Zaki, knowing that the number of films that she participated in was only 4.
In the same interview, Raghda spoke regarding that Ahmed Zaki offered her to marry during the last days of his life, noting that she rejected this proposal,
So that it would not be said that she was taking care of him in this case, considering that he is her husband, and she added that “she no longer cares regarding people’s words as much as she is keen to take care of the late in his ordeal.”
In another interview, Raghda said that what she did with the artist Ahmed Zaki was nothing but the fulfillment of the vow of loyalty between them, as the duo made a vow to themselves to stand side by side in times of adversity and adversity,
And many demanded to know the nature of the relationship between them, so what motivates an artist like Raghda to leave her home and stay next to Zaki during his illness for 14 months?
In another interview, Raghda said that Ahmed Zaki’s marriage proposal was aimed at protecting her from people’s words, as he was dying and offering me a marriage proposal for fear of rumors.
Saddam Hussein
Rumors did not leave the artist Raghda like other artists, as her relationship with the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein was the most prominent, and her relationship with Iraq began in the early nineties,
When she went there to play a humanitarian community role with the children, and stipulated that she would not deal with any Iraqi official throughout her humanitarian work in Iraq and refused to meet with the late President Saddam Hussein, which exposed her to an assassination attempt by his son “Uday”,
But with the arrival of the Muhammad Sobhi band to Iraq in the early 2000s, it was officially invited to attend the meeting with President Saddam, and that was the only meeting he had with him.
Although it was a single meeting, there were rumors regarding an emotional relationship she had with the late Iraqi president, which prompted her to respond in one of the television interviews,
Where she said that the talk regarding the existence of that relationship is a “meadow of treachery” and the relationship between them was official while she joined the Committee to Support Iraqi Children Afflicted During the Siege imposed on Iraq.
single marriage
The artist, Raghda, did not marry once in her life, to carpet dealer Abdullah al-Kahal, and they had 4 children: Menna, Buthaina, Tamima and Muhammad, and her married life was stable,
But following a period of stability, she separated from him, preferring to devote herself to raising her children, and regarding the reason for her separation, she says in one of her conversations: “I separated from my husband Abdullah al-Kahal because of the siege of Iraq,
I was the coordinator of the popular delegation that traveled to Iraq on the first plane in order to break the siege on Iraq, so I was given the choice of either this visit or separation, so I chose to go to Iraq and separated from it.”
