Yesterday, the Egyptian artist, Ibrahim Farah, died in a Cairo hospital, at the age of 68.

The Egyptian Middle East News Agency quoted Sarah Nagla Ibrahim Farah as saying that her father died after his health deteriorated yesterday.

The late actor recently suffered some health problems that required him to stay in intensive care for a while. The artist participated in a number of dramas, and presented distinctive roles in it, among them: “Khawaja Abdul Qadir” in which he performed the character of the Sufi Abdul Qadir, “Sheikh Al-Arab Hammam” and “Al-Reha’i”, “Grand Hotel” and “Afrah Al-Qobba”, and others from Series.

The late artist, with roots in Aswan, in the southernmost part of Egypt, was also famous for his smile, which he kept even when he was in the period of his last illness. Several locations of his photos were conveyed with a smile on optimism on the hospital's white bed.