2022/06/05
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More than 24 years have passed since the departure of the beautiful star Madiha Kamel, whose beauty, tenderness and artistic brilliance in Egyptian cinema was unparalleled.
Madiha lived her artistic life as an actress with a special attraction, her love infiltrating the heart at the speed of a rocket, and her personality carried a lot of attraction and influence on the mind and heart of the audience.
The artist Samir Ghanem discovered her in the mid-sixties when he saw her by chance while she was returning from high school. He was attracted to her beauty and offered her to be an actress.
She agreed, and Madiha Kamel participated with the artist Samir Ghanem in more than one work, including the movie “30 Days in Prison” and the movie “You answer her like this, you answer her like this, she is like this.”
Throughout her career, Madiha Kamel presented many films, perhaps the most famous of which is the movie “Ascent to the Abyss”, in which she played the role of a spy.
And her role in the film was classified as a paid scene in Egyptian cinema, and director Kamal Al-Sheikh chose for him the turning point and the starting point for her first-class tournaments, followed by films, the most important of which are “Bright Your Eyes”, “Song on the Corridor” and “Sons of Silence”.
Madiha remained out of the limelight following her retirement and veil until she passed away in January 1997. Despite her passing,
However, she is still the beautiful star of influence in the hearts of her fans. During the past year, her only daughter, Merham, appeared as a designer
Fashion for evening wear and abayas bearing the name “Madiha Kamel”, as she used her mother’s name as the brand of her designs.
Where the daughter of the late artist, Mrs. Mirham Al Rayes, and her daughter, the granddaughter of the Egyptian artist, appeared.
During a previous episode of the program “Al-Satat Mayarfush Yakdboa”, broadcast on CBC, she participated in the episode.
As a veiled fashion designer, she talked regarding her interest in the new in fashion in the world of veiled fashion.
Madiha Kamel decided to retire and wear the hijab in 1992 while filming the movie “The Devil’s Gate”, which caused problems between her and the producer.
She had a limited number of scenes left and she refused to complete the scenes for the remaining two days of filming, which prompted the work team to use a duplexer to complete it, and she refused to appear and refused to take pictures of her in the hijab.
In the five years, she went out to deny to the press the rumor of her marriage to the preacher Yassin Rushdie, and her appearance on the “Very Candid Dialogue” program was a sensation, especially as she attacked the artistic community,
Therefore, the episode did not see the light, as her daughter “Mirham” stated in a television interview several months later, the artist Madiha Kamel died on the fourth day of Ramadan, which she dreamed of her departure,
She expected her death, granted her wish, and left life at the time she loved, on January 13, 1997.
According to her daughter’s statements: Madiha Kamel used to love the month of Ramadan, because it includes worship and spiritual and mental serenity, and she always bought Ramadan lanterns even following she grew up.
She was always arguing cheerfully with her daughter over the Ramadan lantern, as she used to buy herself a large lantern and buy her daughter “Merham” a small lantern.
The daughter revealed that she found in the cupboard of the artist Madiha Kamel, following her death, a number of religious brochures that are distributed in condolences as charity for the soul of the deceased, which was printed by her mother.
And she kept it without telling her, and it was actually distributed following her death, and she also discovered a lot of charitable works that her mother was doing in secret.
She indicated that she loved watching her mother’s work before her death, especially the play A Very Windy Day, where the character was
She bears a great resemblance to her real mother’s personality, but she is no longer able to view any of her artwork following her death.
It is worth noting that the artist Madiha Kamel suffered from heart disease in her life, as she suffered a stroke while filming the series “The Snake” in 1975.
But the disease increased a year before her death and made her bed for 10 months, which she spent in “Mustafa Mahmoud” hospital, and water accumulated on her lungs and the heart muscle weakened, which prolonged her stay in the hospital.
