Today marks the 19th anniversary of the passing of the artist Mamdouh Wafi, who passed away on October 17, 2004.
A long artistic career by the artist Mamdouh Wafi, during which he presented more than 160 works, and among his most important works are “The Egg and the Stone,” “The Diary of Wanis,” “The Family of Hajj Metwally,” and the plays “The Savage,” “Hamri Jamri,” and other works.
Mamdouh Wafi formed an artistic duo with Ahmed Zaki. They presented many works together, and their friendship began before fame and professional acting. They both studied at a theater arts institute and lived together in one apartment for expatriates. Once Ahmed Zaki achieved fame, he took Mamdouh Wafi with him in most of his works, but the latter He often rejected these actions.
Mamdouh Wafi discovered that he had cancer by chance. He went with Ahmed Zaki to the hospital to have some x-rays done, and at the time he did not know that he was sick. Mamdouh Wafi tried to persuade him to enter one of the machines to perform x-rays, and to convince him that they were just normal procedures and not x-rays for a malignant disease. He entered Device next to it.
He discovered that he was ill and at a later stage than Ahmed Zaki, and he hid the matter from him at first, then told him in order to encourage him to go through the treatment journey together and travel together.
Mamdouh Wafi was buried in Ahmed Zaki’s cemetery because he had not yet bought a cemetery and he had recommended that Ahmed Zaki be buried with him.
Mamdouh Wafi died on October 17, 2004. He was undergoing surgery and his heart stopped during the operation.
