2022/04/26
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Time flies by, and Somaya Al Alfi, the beautiful white girl, celebrates her 67th birthday. Nothing remains as it was in the beginning, this is the fate of all of us.
Somaya Al-Alfi retired from art semi-officially, whether of her own will or even if it was out of her will, either for health or psychological reasons, or the general atmosphere no longer allowed the presence of ancient artists.
Somaya discovered a long time ago that the distraction behind the elusive dream of art does not satisfy the soul, and that all she desires is a look from the shining eyes of her two children, this is a magic carpet that transports her to a world bursting with love, tenderness and safety.
Somaya was born in 1953, on the first Revolution Day, and says that this day has a great impact on her personality, and that Egypt used to celebrate this day every year, and it was a day of joy on all levels, and her father used to take her on this day and roam with her in the streets of Cairo, Abdul Halim and Umm Kulthum were singing with him, as if they were singing to her.
Somaya is the third in the order among her brothers, before her Ahmed and Salwa, and then Muhammad and Siham, and she knew that the advantage of being the middle sister, which made her balanced and calm mostly, is not the first, so she feels arrogant and does not fall into the last cluster.
Her father, Youssef Bey Al-Alfi, was handsome and handsome, as she says, with broad shoulders, burgundy, sharp features, and he owned an accounting office. He died when she was 16 years old.
After her father’s death, Sumaya felt that she was alone in life, and she says that she got close to her mother, “Shwikar Amin Darwish”.
She says regarding her mother: “My mother is the true and only meaning of unrequited tenderness. She is very kind and naive. She never left our house, which was in the manial, unless the car came. I took her and brought her. She gets lost and does not know the streets. “.
And she continued, “I, like my mother, graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, and this was the last frontier of the world for me, and my mother was very religious and emotional and believed anyone.”
Sumaya’s father rejected the idea of acting, but she acted on his will and rejected the temptation scenes, saying: “I refused temptation roles that might have made me a star at lightning speed, and kept my behavior and morals in a very complex environment.”
Somaya met Farouk al-Fishawy at the end of the seventies, and gave birth to her two sons, Ahmed and Omar, but following 15 years they separated, to later marry Medhat Saleh, the musician Modi al-Imam and then director Jamal Abdel Hamid.
Despite the multiple marriages, she repeatedly said in her television interviews: “Farouk is the love of my life, and I have never loved anyone else. Our children never feel that we are separated from each other.”
Somaya said that she miscarried 12 times, but she loved pregnancy because she adored motherhood.
