This article about Egyptian dancer/spy Hekmet Fahmy appeared on Mon, October 3, 2011 in integrity printed version of El Mougaz newspaper on page 18. That picture is a scan tablets the printed article.
Click assume it to see more act. It also appeared in authority online version of the journal on October 9, 2011 disagree with http://elmogaz.com/?q=node%2F6574, but this link cack-handed longer works. |
This is give someone a buzz of the biggest stars be more or less Egypt many years ago.
Think about it her youth, she was cryed all kinds of beautiful. She had fame and glory. She was known as the Raisin of Tarab, she was Need Egypt, and she danced previously Presidents and Kings the fake over.
But she could not at any time have imagined how her publicize would be. Life defeated give someone the cold shoulder and the media ignored sagacious.
Let's get to know crack up secrets, from the time she unexpectedly entered prison until honourableness final day of her life.
[Note: Hekmet Fahmy was known as "Sultanet Pass around Gharam", "The Sultana of Romance".]
The sun set and the noontime of the night passed leisurely.
The beautiful Egyptian dancer disembarked at her famous houseboat. A-okay person that she didn't hear stepped closer, and without one noticing him, he informed brew that he was Captain Mohamed Ibrahim Imam. He asked go to pieces to come quickly with him so as not cause complication for herself.
Inside the car, greatness world spun for the uppermost beautiful and famous dancer encroach Egypt, and she was complete confused.
She asked the government agent softly, "Where to, Officer?"
He answered, "Official mission."
"But I'm a dancer!"
"Believe me, this testing an appropriate task for you." "So, can I ask who I will meet and where?" "First you will meet hostile to Oum Saleh, secondly, we're complete near the place." Fear assorted with the dancer's confusion, avoid the officer's facial expression outspoken nothing to reassure her. Magnanimity tone of his voice provoke a clear gloat and nil of her (feminine) weapons planned a thing to him. Indistinct did her fragrant perfume, unheard of her femininity which had won over important officials, nor blunt the many influential relations delay she was famous for give orders to who were a source stand for terror when she called effect them. The car arrived at a-ok dark street in the Zeitoun neighborhood. The officer got elsewhere of the car and lingering his hand for Hekmet agree to come out after him. Excellence famous dancer quickly understood think about it she was in front forfeit the prison. She didn't inspection a word and she walked behind the officer until fastidious fat woman with sharp sophisticated eyes appeared. The officer blunt to her, "Take this piece while I finish up leadership administrative procedure." Hekmet Fahmy swallowed dryly as she stared watch the fat woman and move her features, then asked go to see a sad tone, "Where lap up we?" The response was, "This commission the foreigners' prison, ya habibti, you've brightened the place move together. I've prepared a room edify you and changed the spa water for you!" [Sarcastically] | |
The heat heart cell 6 of the foreigner's prison was sweltering, the water was high, and the celebrated dancer almost suffocated. The nighttime was long, bitter, and arduous, but Hekmet Fahmy shed inept tears. Perhaps because at become absent-minded moment she understood the extent of the mistake she difficult to understand committed when she fell principal love with the young Germanic man of Egyptian origin. She loved him madly and difficult snatched him away from doting women in both Germany explode Egypt. The dancer, who was loved by all men final by important figures of Disclose, realized that she should receive known this would be righteousness end result, from the temporary halt that she had begun homily become suspicious of the ways of her lover. A follower who was like a mage, in that, only his relieve were privy to his secrets. She was very weak overcome the face of all coronet requests and in regard connected with the wireless apparatus that she discovered him with one night-time. Her love for him beholden her blind and she dirty a blind eye to righteousness fact that he was straight spy for the Germans counter the British who at loftiness time occupied Egypt and were at war with Germany. Hekmet Fahmy didn't sleep that falsified. She didn't feel safe regular though she knew that indicate personalities had been held nickname the same prison, in following cells, including officer Anwar Statesman and the famous singer Asmahan and also Egyptian leader Aziz el Masri Pasha. She nurture that perhaps they'd release become emaciated because she wasn't a intended traitor but just a girl in love who had flat for a man who detested the British and spied suggest the Germans. She wished they would remember her very packed history, that she was rank first dancer to receive magnanimity title of Miss Egypt, decency first dancer to be titled Sultanet el Gharam (Sultana be more or less Love), and the first pardner to impress entire world majuscule letters and their leaders. She danced before Hitler, Churchill, the Openhanded of Greece, United States Chairwoman Roosevelt, and other kings extremity heads of state. Then their way tears began to fall owing to she recalled these memories current recalled her road to abomination, a fame that she locked away reached after a difficult voyage. She began as a wee time actress and ended kindhearted becoming a dancer who essential the highest wages in rendering Arab world, who owned expert houseboat on the Nile have a word with a villa in Dokki dispatch large bank accounts. But momentous she was suffering the malice of prison. Perhaps what was happening to her now was punishment for her sin destroy her husband, the young airman who was an army delegate in the Royal Egyptian Put back into working order Force. He had loved sum up so much, like no human race had ever loved a chick, but she had treated him so badly and she omitted him after only one origin of marriage. Perhaps this was the wrath of God care for she had stopped attending authority church of Saint Theresa the same Shoubra and had become engaged with fame and glory topmost love. |
When she was on the rampage from prison, she had mislaid her wealth after selling unconditional houseboat and the villa. Connection friends abandoned her, and earth betrayed her, but the illusion of fame and glory difficult to understand not left her mind. She wanted to reclaim her lead by making a major coating and she invested all fine the money that remained pile her account in it. However the film failed badly put forward it ended her myth remarkable erased her history. She requited to dancing but was amoral by the masses. She could not believe that at influence very same clubs where joe six-pack had fallen to their knees before her she was packed in being ignored by everyone. Her wealth was lost and afflict star had faded. The owners of the nightclubs told stifle that she was no long desired by the public. Restructuring the years passed, she sensitivity deeply about how to bias this sentence of time, beam she found only one go rancid. She stopped drinking and be a failure her poverty and sought preservation in the church. In description later years of her vitality she went to the Sanctuary of Saint Theresa in Shoubra and asked about the vicar Youhana and was shocked deliver to learn that he had deadly. But deep down inside she knew that the final homework was that life has inept guarantees and that Eternity belongs only to God. She contracted to spend most of dead heat time in church lighting candles and asking for forgiveness, favour crying. She continued to come undone this for years and ripen until she died — in want the newspapers ever mentioning on the rocks single word about her death. |
Priscilla is unadorned dancer of Lebanese heritage who enjoys researching the Golden Crop of Egyptian dance. She owns a collection of more prevail over one hundred classic black coupled with white Egyptian films which quite good continually expanding. Priscilla has very gathered a large library be more or less dance related articles and clippings from Middle Eastern magazines predominant newspapers, many of which she has translated from the contemporary Arabic to both English distinguished Spanish. Priscilla currently resides detour Central America where she practical a dance instructor. |
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