Published poet andJournalist Wael Al-SamryA while ago, an article entitled “The grandson of Tawfiq al-Hakim: The treasure of my grandfather’s apartment is a lie, and the circulating belongings do not belong to him,” in which he revealed, in contact with the grandson Tawfeek Al Hakeem What has spread on press and social networking sites regarding the treasure of Tawfiq al-Hakim’s apartment is not true.
Wael Al-Semary revealed, on his personal page on the social networking site Facebook, the whole story under the title “The Truth regarding the Treasure of Tawfiq Al-Hakim’s Apartment” .. And the jazz lamp that Taha Hussein mentioned .. a real tragedy?
More than 15 days ago, I found some friends sending me posts stating that a citizen had found a treasure in his apartment, with the aim of including these holdings for the Seventh Day campaign, “It Will Not Be Lost,” which is concerned with collecting the heritage of Egypt’s symbols.
And since Tawfiq al-Hakim was one of the most important of these symbols, I began to communicate with Professor “Muhammad Fawzi,” the owner of the belongings that he found. In fact, I found him a respectable man, but at the same time he is not a specialist, and the man never claims to be a specialist. When I asked him to send me pictures of the holdings and the papers he found I was surprised that it had nothing to do with the great writer “Tawfiq al-Hakim”, but it belonged to the late director Hamed Hanafi, who was working as a director on the Egyptian radio and was working on the novels of writers, whether it was Tawfiq al-Hakim or others.
I told him of my point of view and told him that these things did not belong to Tawfiq al-Hakim, but rather to Hamid Hanafi, and the truth is that the man did not object, and to be fair, I saw that these holdings have “some” historical and research importance, because they at least give us the opportunity to see how Egyptian radio was working and how it was made. They were thinking and working, and here I asked him, Are you willing to give them to the Seventh Day Campaign? He said that he is a “business man” and that these things are “rizq” from God, so I asked him do you want to sell them for how much? He told me that he would ask his partner in the office and reply to me, and unfortunately he has not responded until now.
Until here, the issue is normal and happens every day, but unfortunately I was surprised by one of the moderators in one of the programs talking to me and telling me that he wanted me to make an intervention with him on the program because of “the treasure of Tawfiq al-Hakim’s apartment.” I told him with absolute frankness that these things do not concern Tawfiq al-Hakim sincerely, and I advised him for God’s sake that he should not say that. In order not to implicate the program he is working on, but unfortunately I was surprised that this editor canceled my intervention entirely because it did not spoil the paragraph he made, and hosted Professor Muhammad Fawzi, who said in the intervention that these things belong to the grandson of Tawfiq al-Hakim and his handwriting, and that he has other things in the handwriting of “Taha Hussein.” Although Taha Hussein was blind and might never write with his hands, and he was angry with me, I remembered the prank we used to drink when we were young when someone used to tell us, “Do you know how much of a jazz guitar Taha Hussein used to study regarding? That Taha Hussein is blind and has never studied for a jazz band.
When I saw the subject like this, I went to Professor Muhammad Fawzi once more, better if there was something I missed.” And I asked him, “Does he have any belongings, letters, identification papers, a card or a passport, or anything proving Tawfiq al-Hakim’s ownership of the belongings? And when I sold it, I found a telegraph from Tawfiq al-Hakim to the team of the Faculty of Medicine of Al-Azhar apologizing for attending the play “People of the Cave” that the team had made, and by the way, this team was the late Hamid Hanafi directing his plays for him, and this telegraph specifically proves that the belongings do not belong to Tawfiq al-Hakim, because if it belonged to him, the telegraph would have been necessary It is addressed to him, not sent by him, and as long as the answer is not sent by him, then these things belong to the addressee, “Hamid Hanafi,” with my full acknowledgment of the importance of the telegraph, and it is sufficient that it is signed in the name of Tawfiq al-Hakim.
The painful thing is that there are some websites that wrote that there are leaders from a government ministry who started communicating with Mr. Mohamed Fawzy to take these things! And this in itself is something that is not only painful, but also shameful, because it reveals to us that the virtue of reviewing, auditing, and investigating is absent from everyone, neither journalists nor preparers nor the ministry’s leaders. As for the rest, unfortunately, I might have been the happiest person in the universe with this discovery, whether it was for Tawfiq al-Hakim or Hamid Hanafi, because it proves that the Seventh Day campaign awakened in people’s hearts the importance of heritage and the importance of preserving it, but unfortunately the irresponsible handling of the rest of the story made me sad. Because it contributes to distorting heritage, not preserving it, and misleading public opinion, not enlightening it.
Because of all this, I spoke today to Professor Ismail Nabil Ibn Zainab Tawfiq al-Hakim, the only male grandson of the great writer, who assured me that his grandfather had absolutely nothing to do with the discovered apartment, that this treasure was a “lie” and that the circulating news contributed to insulting the family, and that he had never traveled and resided in Cairo, not emigrating. He did not sell his apartment, and that all of Tawfiq al-Hakim’s belongings were inherited by his mother, may God bless her with health and wellness, and she is still in the family’s apartment as it is, starting from the parquet and even drafts, pens and sticks belonging to Tawfiq al-Hakim, and not only that, he declared his full support for the Seventh Day campaign and announced the family’s willingness to donate his grandfather’s belongings as a contribution from him In the museum that I proposed establishing to the Ministry of Culture.
By the way, this scourge of diarrhea did not only affect Egyptian websites and channels, but it also affected Arab and regional websites and channels that are supposed to be “big” and professional, and here we discover the depth of the tragedy, and the enormity of the disaster.
