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Remembering Amina Rizk: The Legendary Career of an Arab Cinema Icon

Written by Adel Abdullah Thursday, August 24, 2023 06:00 AM Today, Thursday, August 24, marks the anniversary of the artist’s departure The able Amina Rizk Who is considered the owner of the longest artistic career in the history of Arab cinema, as her professional start was through the movie Souad Al-Ghajariya in 1928 AD, and her years of film and television work exceeded 75 years. In Cairo with her aunt, the artist Amina Mohamed, following the death of her father, when she was eight years old.

Amina Rizk

She appeared for the first time on the stage in 1922, when she sang next to her aunt in one of the plays of the Ali Al-Kassar troupe in the Rawd Al-Farag theaters.

She participated in acting in most of Wehbe’s plays, with whom she was associated as a professor and artist, and did not marry him despite her strong love for him. Among the most prominent of her plays, which she presented in the seventies, were “Siniora” and the comedy play
“It is really for a very respectable family” in collaboration with Fouad Al-Mohandes and Shweikar. The last thing she performed on stage a few months ago was Tawfiq Al-Hakim’s play “Ya Tale’a Al-Shajara” alongside the artist Ahmed Fouad Selim.

In the field of cinema, her star rose as a capable actress. Amina Rizk never married, and she was respected by the artistic workers who saw in her an example of containment and discipline, and they called her “Mama Amina.” Amina Rizk was appointed a member of the Egyptian Shura Council in May 1991, and she also received a medal. Merit of the first degree from the late President Gamal Abdel Nasser

Amina Rizk is famous for presenting the roles of the Egyptian mother. She died on August 24, 2003, after suffering a severe drop in blood circulation, after a two-month struggle with illness.

2023-08-24 03:00:00

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