More than 25 years have passed since the retirement of the famous Egyptian artist Jihan Nasr, following her marriage to Saudi businessman Saud Al-Sharbatly, and during the years of her retirement, she did not appear on the scene except a few times.
Jihan Nasr’s retirement is a famous story, which is her preference for home and marriage over artistic work, as she married the Saudi billionaire Saud Al Sharbatly, and at that time she was forced to devote herself to managing the affairs of the home and family, as well as the necessity of wearing the veil.
This is what she was subjected to, and even the media interviews did not appear in them, and the following is the most prominent information regarding her Saudi husband.
Jihan Nasr surprised the public by retiring from art in 1997 following her marriage to Saudi billionaire Saud al-Sharbatly, who was reported to have asked her to retire from art and devote himself to the family.
And regarding the story of Jihan Nasr and Saud Al Sharbatly’s marriage, it was said that he met her in Beirut during her participation in the play “The Lucky” with the star Samir Ghanem, and he sought to get to know her and succeeded in that following Samir Ghanem mediated for him to sit with her for several minutes and then asked her to marry.
It was strongly reported at the time that Saud al-Sharbatly stipulated that Jihan Nasr should retire from art, but some press reports added that he set another condition for her, which is to wear the veil.
After Jihan Nasr agreed to consummate her marriage to Saudi Saud Al-Sharbatly, he presented her with a ring estimated at 200 thousand dollars with the payment of a dowry of one million dollars and the back of the dowry estimated at one and a half million dollars,
He gave her a mansion in London and another in Canada, and he paid her parents and siblings $100,000 as a gift. Saud Al-Sharbatly is a member of the famous Al-Sharbatly family in the Kingdom, which works in trade and development of the Kingdom during the pre-oil era.
Until they own a number of leading institutions such as Riyad Bank and the Saudi Arabian Refineries Company “SARCO”, and a number of huge projects in the field of real estate, cars and the commercial sector in general, in addition to their role in spreading culture and charitable works. Saud Al Sharbatly,
The husband of Jihan Nasr, a Saudi poet born in Jeddah, and his first attempts to write poetry in elementary school, and the first poem was titled “Ya Emigrant,” but it was not balanced. .
“Saud” moved to the intermediate stage at Yarmouk School, during which he started actual writing, but without concentration or seriousness.
He received his bachelor’s degree from the College of Commerce and Business Administration, and then received an honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge, UK. “Saud” is now collaborating with the brightest singing stars in the Arab world, including Muhammad Abdo, Pascal Machaalani, Latifa, Samira Saeed, and others.
Samir Ghanem was the reason for Saud al-Sharbatly’s marriage to Jihan Nasr. During the presentation of the play “The Lucky” by Jihan Nasr and Samir Ghanem in Beirut in 1977, “Saud” watched her, and asked to meet her, and “Ghanim” played a role in bridging the distances, and proposed to her, and in the same year She wore the veil and retired from art.
