Today, Egyptian artist Hisham Selim has died at the age of 64, after a struggle with a disease.
The funeral will take place this afternoon from the police mosque in Sheikh Zayed, south of the Egyptian capital, Cairo.
The late artist recently suffered from cancer and suffered serious complications leading to the deterioration of his health, entering a private hospital and staying there until he took his last breath this morning.
The late artist was born in Cairo in 1958, the son of former Egyptian footballer and president of the Al-Ahly Club, Saleh Selim. He is a graduate of Helwan University’s Faculty of Tourism and Hotels and made his first appearance playing the role of Faten Hamama’s son in the film Empire of Mem directed by Hussein Kamal in the year 1972.
He has participated in several artistic and cinematographic works, including films about the murder of a school, the falsification of official documents, the Arabesque series and Layali al-Hilmiyya, and the Nile is still running.
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