2022/07/21
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The dancer Dina is one of the most prominent artists who stirred a great controversy in her artistic and personal life. Her fiancé is in the morning and she dances at night.
Dina was born in the Italian capital, Rome, on April 12, 1964, at the age of 56. She lived a different life in her childhood, then returned with her family to Egypt and resided in the Sayeda Zeinab neighborhood in Cairo. She graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Department of Philosophy, Ain Shams University, and obtained a master’s degree in Philosophy.
She loved art from an early age, especially the art of oriental dance, due to her influence on the dancer Farida Fahmy. She began her artistic career in the world of dance in 1980, where she joined the Reda Folklore Troupe when she was only fifteen years old.
Dina ran away from her family with her sister, the retired singer Rita, who was working in the field of singing and decided to retire and wear the niqab, following her parents refused her professionalism in oriental dance. Nicknamed “Baba”, the dancer, Samia Gamal, is considered her idol in the world of dance.
She entered the field of acting through her first acting experience through the movie “Al-Bandira” with the artist Mervat Amin and Izzat Al-Alayli. Ezz, Alia Al-Tarab in Al-Talata, Al-Haram Street, Abda Mota, Hatoli Ragel, Esh Al-Bulbul, Halimou, the legend of the beaches, the last rooster in Egypt.
She participated in many series, most notably, Redd Albi, Friska, Nightingale is a story of people, Nouna Al-Mazunha, Bab Al-Khalq, Cream and Honey, Pharaoh, Ahl Al-Hawa, Maulana Al-Ashek, Pedigree Crisis, Black Ghorabib, The Flood, Chameleon, Eagle of Upper Egypt, Rahim, The Godfather. The daughter of Kabylia, Sultana Al-Moez.
“Dina” married 7 times, the first was to businessman Samir Abdullah, and this marriage remained secret for years, then she married for the second time to director Sameh Al-Bagouri, and that marriage resulted in her only son, “Ali”. She also married 3 times from outside the artistic community, including a marriage From a young man she did not recognize until following a copy of their marriage contract was leaked, then she married a customary businessman, Hossam Aboul Fotouh, a marriage that lasted for more than 5 years and no one knew regarding it until following the famous CD scandal.
The CD scandal of the dancer Dina and Aboul Fotouh is considered one of the most scandals that the artistic community witnessed in the era of the late President Mohamed Hosni Mubarak.
Rumors claimed at the time that the video leak was in retaliation for Hossam Aboul Fotouh, who criticized Business Alaa and Gamal Mubarak in his secret meetings and communications.
Then the surprise occurred and Dina waived the accusation of Aboul Fotouh of filming her without clothes and the court ruled that he was innocent of his accusation of filming some women while they were having intercourse without their knowledge and the court ordered the execution of the seized pictures and tapes.
The last marriage in Dina’s life was for businessman Wael Abu Hussein in 2011, and she also separated from him following an 8-year marriage, and she was satisfied with declaring their separation, saying: “Everything is a division and a share.”
