Mohamed Abdullah - Cairo
Egyptian cinema star Nadia Lutfi died today at the age of 83, after a struggle with illness. The late woman went into a coma last Wednesday after her health deteriorated, following the death of her friend, actress Magda Al-Sabahi.
The first cinema appearance of the famous Paula Shafiq in the club Lotfi was in 1958, in the movie "Sultan" in front of the late actor Farid Shawky, before she participated in the championship of many of the most famous Egyptian films, as the number of works that she participated in during the sixties reached about 47 films, the most famous of which was " Sins, for men only, Nasser Salah El-Din, quail and autumn, Qasr Al-Shouq. The number of her films reached 76 since she started acting, and her last artistic appearance was in the series "Nass Walad Nass" in 1993.
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Because her name “Paula” is strange on the Arab ear, some people thought she was Christian or born to a foreign family, but according to her ID, issued in July 1964, her full name is Paula Mohamed Mostafa Shafiq, born on January 3, 1937 in the region Al-Waili in the capital, Cairo, which denies what is said about being a Christian Arab or foreign Arabized.
Her strong Arab affiliation and her advocacy of Arab causes appeared during the Beirut siege in 1980, as Nadia Lutfi made a famous trip to Lebanon, supported the Palestinian resistance, recorded the massacres that took place, and transferred her to international TV stations, which prompted many newspapers and channels to say that Nadia Lutfi’s camera - which I monitored the massacre of the late Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in Sabra and Shatila - it was not a camera but rather a machine gun in the face of the Israeli forces.
Nadia Lutfi had celebrated her birthday on January 3, and also appeared days before her death in a video clip describing Magda Al-Sabahi, who passed away in mid-January, before she joined her this afternoon.