09:55 AM
Thursday 03 March 2022
I wrote – Marwa Mohieldin:
It represented an irreplaceable position in his life. He was brought together by a long marital partnership, their hands embraced during the calamities of life, which he repeatedly described as “the bond.” Ms. Jennifer Helen remained the companion of life, struggle, love and misery to the world, Dr. Ahmed Okasha, the most famous professor of psychiatry, until she left our world yesterday.
Yesterday morning, Wednesday, the wife of the President’s Adviser for Mental Health and the mother of Dr. Tarek Okasha, professor of psychiatry, and Hisham Okasha, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the National Bank of Egypt, died following she devoted her life for the happiness of her family and left a great and unforgettable impact.
Okasha met Jennifer while he was working in England; She was working with him in the profession of psychiatry, which strengthened their relationship, and with time revealed the intellectual and cultural compatibility between them, which made him want to marry her.
The idea of marrying a foreigner was not rejected by the Okasha family, but his father left him the freedom to choose his life partner with whom he would complete. then; He asked his older brother Tharwat Okasha, the former Minister of Culture and the great thinker, and his sister to travel to England to get to know her.
Before the marriage, Akasha was offered to live in England and continue his life there, but Jennifer was well aware that her husband would not accept treatment less than the citizens of the country; She refused his settlement in England and asked him to return to Egypt.
Okasha was at the beginning of his career at the time, when he applied to her and told her regarding his living conditions that she would have to accept if she agreed to the marriage request, including that he would be appointed as a teaching assistant at the university with a salary of 22 pounds per month, in addition to the fact that they would live in his parents’ house.
Despite the simplicity of its capabilities; Jennifer agreed to marry. She wished to unite their religion for the sake of future children; That is why she converted to Islam, and came to Egypt to decide if she might live there at the request of her husband Okasha.
The Oxford graduate sacrificed for her husband; He tells in a previous press interview that she refused independence in a separate housing away from his family so as not to burden him with excessive financial burdens, and the two lived in the marital stable, which was also his work clinic.
The late wife allocated a room to sleep and the rest of the apartment was a clinic for him, thus the place was divided, and at the time of work she would close the room’s door to separate completely from the clinic, while she was helping the psychiatrist to finish his work, as he relied on her to write his research on the typewriter even following they had their first child At that time, he said in a previous interview.
An arduous journey that Jennifer endured with her partner Okasha; Love adorned her, and sacrifice made her easier. The doctor started his day early; He gets up at seven in the morning to go to Tanta to perform the lecture, then returns to complete his work at the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University, and from there to the Faculty of Arts, Ain Shams University, to end up at his clinic and residence to receive diploma students and visits to patients. the night.
Jennifer gave up her professional dream, in pursuit of raising children, she was taking care of them in their academic and personal lives, bringing them to school daily, accompanying them to the mosque in prayer, doing her duties to the fullest, and giving him the same care. Okasha is credited with many things; Life was balanced between them in this way, until she passed away.
