Sarah Salah Friday, December 1, 2023 01:00 AM
He was the late artist Tariq Abdel AzizHe likes to share with his fans rare and old photos of him through his Instagram account, and recalls his memories of his youth. Among those photos is a photo of him with Mohamed Saad in the play “The Writer and the Shahat” at the Faculty of Law Theater in 1988. It was written by Ali Salem and directed by Hisham Mansour, and he wrote on the photo that he published at the time. In 2018: “The play The Writer and the Shahat starring young artists Mohamed Saad and Tariq Abdel Aziz.”
The artist Tariq Abdel Aziz passed away last Sunday, at the age of 55, after suffering a sudden heart attack while filming his scenes in the series “We Left Two”, with the artist Sherif Mounir, which is scheduled to be shown soon on one of the United Media Services channels, where he was filming a scene that brings him together with Sherif. Mounir suddenly fell to the ground and suffered convulsions. Immediately, his son – his business manager, who was with him in the location – took him to the hospital, but he had breathed his last before arriving.
Tariq Abdel Aziz made his artistic debut in the university theatre, then he joined the workshop troupe led by Hassan El-Gritly, which was one of the most important free workshops existing at that time, and through it he presented the play “Dair What’s Going On” starring the artist Abla Kamel, Ahmed Kamal, Ahmed Mukhtar, and Dr. Mahmoud Al-Lawzi. Sayed Ragab and a large group of artists and writers presented this play on the French cultural stage.
The late artist also participated in the movie “My Upper Egypt at the American University” with the artist Mohamed Henedy, and a distinguished group of young people. Among his most famous roles in the beginning were the role of the program maker in the movie “Friends and Business,” and the role of the Copt in “A Cultural Film.”
Tariq Abdel Aziz presented many dramatic works, including: “Rahim,” “Abu Dahdha Janan,” “The Group,” “Professor and Head of Department,” “Qabil,” and “Monsieur Ramadan Mabrouk Abu Al-Alamin Hamouda.”
