The departure of the actress Najma Shweikar after a struggle with illness
The Egyptian actress, Najma Shweikar, died today, Friday, in the Egyptian capital Cairo, after a bitter struggle with illness.
Shweikar Ibrahim Tob Thakal was born on the twenty-fourth of November 1938 to a Turkish father and a Circassian mother, and her grandfather's title was "Tob Thakal", which is a Turkish title that was acquired by the people of high standing, as her great-grandfather came to Egypt during the Ottoman rule and worked as an officer in the army of Muhammad Ali Pasha, and her father was from the notables of the East.
She grew up and lived in Heliopolis, and her artistic tendencies began to appear at the age of four, and Laila Murad was at this time her favorite star, and her father followed her in French schools where her father was fond of poetry and was an avid reader, while her mother was good at playing the piano, which affected Shweikar's life She was distinguished by her stunning beauty, so her father decided to marry her to a wealthy young man, "Engineer Hassan Nafie", when she was sixteen, and after a year of marriage she gave birth to her daughter, Menat Allah, and after that her husband became seriously ill, and at that time Shweikar decided to complete her high school education before she was shocked by the death of her husband , Where she became a widow and mother to her only child at the age of eighteen, and two years later she was chosen by Sporting Club and crowned the title of the ideal mother at the age of twenty, where she was working, teaching and raising her daughter.
After the trauma that Shweikar experienced, she thought about her life in a serious way and enrolled in the Faculty of Arts, French Language Department, and decided to look for a job. Director Hassan Reda was close to her family and nominated her to work in the Ansar Acting Ensemble, where she participated in more than one theater and decided to receive acting lessons at the hands of Abd Al-Warith Asr and Muhammad Tawfiq, to present her first film in 1960, "My Only Love", in front of Omar Sharif, Nadia Lotfi and Kamal El-Shennawy.
But a coincidence that changed her life when she was nominated in 1963 to lead the championship in the play "The Technical Secretary", and it was supposed to present the tournament in front of it by the actor Mr. Badir, but he suddenly traveled to get the work championship, actor Fouad Al-Mohandes, to start the relationship between them.
Shweikar presented with Fouad Al-Muhandes many works, and during the performance of the play “I and She” he decided to offer her marriage on stage, so he said to her, “Marry me, biscuit.” She immediately returned and his money, to start a story of love and success between them, and Shweikar also became a mother to his children from His first wife, and their love story continued for more than twenty years of marriage, and even after the separation, the couple continued to emphasize love, and Shweikar says about the engineer: “I had a lover, a friend, a husband, a brother and a teacher and I thought that I was the first and last love in his life, even when we separated, our relationship continued to the last moment. in his life". Even after their separation, many people proposed to her, so her response was always, "Whoever marries me is not less than Fouad Al-Muhandis, and his son Muhammad Al-Muhandis said that his father was eating from the hand of Shwikar for the last moment in his life, and Shweikar had a third marriage from the scriptwriter Medhat Hassan did not talk about her much." .
During her association with Fouad al-Muhandis, and even after the separation, Shweikar and the engineer presented many important works. In the cinema, she presented “A Quarter of Dozen of Evil People,” “Ataba Jazz,” “Viva Zalata,” “Love Vacation,” “Confessions of a Husband” and “Harp” From marriage and the most dangerous man in the world. And plays such as "Eve at 12", "Technical Secretary", "My Beautiful Lady", "I, He and She" and "She is Really a Respected Family". Shweikar was among the stars of the sixties and seventies a special-style comedian and theatrical artist who was able to achieve stardom in Cinema and theater also, unlike other stars, who were more keen on cinema at that time.
Despite the rumors that were affecting her, Shweikar continued to live a stable family life with her daughter and grandchildren, and pursued artistic works, but she decided not to participate in any artistic work since 2012, after which she decided to stay away from any participation, but she hates the word "retirement" and is content with following She did not like technology, so she did not have a cell phone or a computer.
But in recent years, Shweikar went through many health ailments. In 2016 she suffered a broken pelvis and stayed at home for long periods, and in a televised intervention at the time she described her condition "maddened" and although Shweikar only accepts her visit to close associates, her relationship with Nabila Obaid and Mervat Amin remained Continuing until its last days.