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Soraya, the artist, was born on August 3, 1905, in the Lebanese city of Zahle, to a middle-class family.
And it is sabotage and destruction inside Lebanese territory because he was among the Zionist groups at that time, and this is what the Lebanese historian Asad Rostom revealed.
When the father learned of his exposure, he took his family and traveled to Alexandria following he sold a textile shop. His daughter Soraya at that time was 25 years old and had only an elementary degree.
In that period, Jews were widespread in the artistic field; Soraya Fakhri followed her father’s approach and decided to enter the artistic field.
Especially that she had a talent for imitating voices and joined the theater with the artist Ali al-Kassar and started with the roles of the mother and limited her artwork to that area, especially the role of the daddy Umm Halima, and she was nicknamed the owner of the resonant laugh.
Soraya started her first steps in cinema in 1939 when she participated in the movie “The Determination” with the artist Hussein Sedky and the artist Fatima Rushdi.
After that, she set out to participate in more than one artwork that varied between tragedy and comedy, and one of her most important works is Redd My Heart, Angel and Devil, Hassan and Marika,
And a love story, and a fugitive from marriage, and between ruins, and a monotonous mother, and the most merciful of my love, between heaven and earth, black candles, girls of the day, fox man, river of love, beginning and end, dear, days and nights, love nest, flame, love sink, girls of the night , the body.
Soraya Fakhri was married three times, the first to Mohamed Tawfik; Where he worked as an accountant for a large number of artists, and the reason for her marriage to him was that she spied on the fortunes of artists
After he revealed her, he separated from her following a few months of marriage, and she married for the second time to Nabil El-Desouky, and he had a lot of money and took his money and died following that.
Then she married for the third time to the artist Fouad Fahim, and that marriage lasted for seven years, and following his death he left her large sums of money, and Soraya Fakhri used that money to fund organizations.
Zionism, following feeling the end of it, decided to sell all its properties and immigrate to the State of Israel, but what was exciting was that she buried her large sums of money in the garden of the palace, in which she lives alone, but she was famous for being very stingy.
In mysterious circumstances, an explosion occurred inside the palace in which she was living; As it turned out that she was hiding explosives inside the palace that the Zionist organizations used in acts of sabotage, according to what was published by Akhbar Al-Youm newspaper in 1965.
Her body disappeared under the rubble and was not found, and because she was alone and had no heir, the Ministry of Awqaf seized the palace in order to build a mosque on it, and during the excavation process, the buried money was found.