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Souad Muhammad Hosni al-Baba was born in 1943, and her origins go back to the Levant. Her father moved to Cairo in 1912, and he came with Grandfather Hosni al-Baba, who worked as a singer in Damascus, and her uncle Anwar al-Baba was an artist, so she grew up in an artistic family.
Abdel Halim was in love with Soad Hosni, but the love story was not complete. Salah Jaheen contemplated it one day through his friendship with Halim and his spiritual fatherhood for Souad, and more than 15 years later; Ahmed Zaki was in love with Soad Hosni and Salah Jahin was present.
Two men, each carrying a strange sadness in his eyes, a woman who carried half the joy of the world alone, and a friend who realized the wisdom of what afflicts human depression.
The beginning of the meeting in the Karnak movie, when Ahmed Zaki was nominated to play the lead role in front of Soad Hosni, the brown-haired boy found the world smiling at him for the first time, a hero and in front of Cinderella the Arab screen, and overnight, the world turned its back on Zaki and the producer excluded him, rejecting his appearance, stressing that he does not Fit as a lover of Cinderella, Cinderella’s eyes caught the look of sadness in the eyes of the hero of her unlikely movie, and perhaps she touched in her heart the same place that the brown nightingale touched.
The meeting was repeated three years later in 1978, in the movie Shafiqa and Metwally. Souad insisted that Zaki perform the role, and Zaki accepted all the shrinkage in his role to the maximum degree and that Souad Hosni became the only heroine in it. Rather, just a supporting role, Soad Hosni realized at that time the authenticity of the look of sadness in the eyes of the brown boy.
Soad Hosni married five times during her life, her first marriage, an unproven customary, was from the brown Nightingale Abdel Halim Hafez, who was raised by some of her family and those close to her and confirmed by some Egyptian journalists such as Mofeed Fawzy, his friend, who confirmed this marriage, adding in one of the seminars in Alexandria “He keeps documents and an important cassette tape of this incident but does not want to exploit such personal cases.”
A year later, Souad married photographer and director Salah Karim for regarding two years. They divorced in 1968, then she married Ali Badrakhan, son of director Ahmed Badrakhan, in 1970, and her marriage to him lasted for eleven years, until they separated in 1981.
In the same year, she married Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab, son of Laila Murad, who was a final year student at the Directing Department at the Film Institute, but they separated following only several months of marriage due to the opposition of “Fateen’s” mother.
As for her last marriage, in 1987, she was from the screenwriter Maher Awad, who died while she was in his custody, and despite her many marriages, she never wore a wedding dress in any of them, and she did not have any son or daughter despite her multiple pregnancies by Ali Badr Khan. He ended up in a miscarriage, due to the stress she was under during her work.
The artist, Soad Hosni, died in 2001, as a result of a fall from the balcony of her apartment on the sixth floor in London.
