The artist, Wafa Salem, revealed a big surprise by retiring from art, without revealing the reasons that prompted her, and has promised to reveal them at a later date.
And she posted a video clip on YouTube, at the beginning of which she talked about the health crisis she was exposed to, and the calls she received from everyone to check it out.
She stated that she received calls from the Arab community in California and they offered to come there and help her perform surgery and overcome the crisis.
In the clip, the artist talked about her crisis with lying, which always makes her unhappy.
She indicated that she wanted to improve the public’s taste through good artworks in which she participated, noting that she was lucky to participate with giants, especially Ahmed Zaki in the film “The Black Panther”, and director Atef Salem, who gave his name.
She revealed her retirement from art, without explaining the specific reasons behind her decision, and has promised her fans to post another video explaining the reasons that prompted her to do so.
Wafaa Salem was born in Syria, she arrived in Egypt to enroll at the Higher Institute of Cinema, and there she met the director Atef Salem, who nominated her for the film “The Black Panther with Ahmed Zaki and gave her his name, to launch her artistic career through a huge work, and progressed in her career about 100 works of art, the latest of which was a series “Sutas in Arabic”.