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In 1964, as the years of defeat intensified before it was announced explicitly, in June 1967, film producer Etimad Khorshid met with the director of Egyptian intelligence, Salah Nasr, to begin a journey with "the Devil" as she described in her famous book, "A witness to Salah Nasr's deviations."

For about 3 years, the "diabolical journey" extended until it ended in defeat before Israel and the appearance of the intelligence director of the defeated country before what was known as the Revolutionary Court, and despite the end of the relationship between Nasr and Khurshid, the latter kept telling her details until her life's journey ended, last Sunday, after she suffered a failure in lung functions. .

At the age of 82, Khurshid, who spent the last 30 years of her life interested in narrating the relationships of female artists with men of power during the Nasser era, passed away.

During 3 decades, the late woman did not stop telling stories that seemed to come from mythical eras about the brutality of those who controlled the country's affairs during the sixties of the last century, according to her accounts and others.

Intelligence Perversion

“The people have the right to know everything.” With this sentence, Khurshid began her book, “Witness to the Deviations of Salah Nasr,” which, at the time of its publication in the late eighties, sparked widespread controversy due to the stories it contained about the torture of opponents and forcing artists to have sexual relations on the pretext of serving the country.

The book, of which 6 editions were issued within only 3 months, dealt with the beginning of the acquaintance between Nasr and the film producer, who was then married to cinematographer Ahmed Khorshid.

The author said that the director of intelligence tried to rape her and then forced her husband - taking advantage of the powers of his position - to divorce her, and when the latter refused, he was admitted to a mental hospital and then left to testify after that to the marriage contract, which was customary.

She confirmed that Nasr adopted sex as the shortest way to reach information, and mentioned many details about recording sex videos of politicians, businessmen, artists, young girls and women of society, referring to their names by mentioning the first letter of the first name and surname.

In her book, which was published 6 years after Nasr's death, Khorshid devoted a chapter entitled "Torture to Death" that deals with the methods of torture that the intelligence director used against opponents of authority, especially the Muslim Brotherhood.

She emphasized that the case of overthrowing the regime, for which the thinker Sayyid Qutb was executed, in 1966, was orchestrated by Nasr and Shams Badran, who was serving as Minister of War at the time.

The book also included an explicit accusation of the director of intelligence over his supervision of the murder of King Farouk in his exile in Italy, by putting a toxic substance in his food.

Abdel Nasser had ordered Nasr's arrest and brought to trial in May 1968, and he was convicted in the case, known in the media as intelligence deviation, for 15 years, and Khurshid was one of the witnesses in this case.

Salah Nasr during his trial (communication sites)

The Honorable Minister

In more than one media interview, conducted after the January 25, 2011 revolution, which overthrew President Hosni Mubarak after 3 decades in power, Khorshid spoke about the role of Safwat al-Sharif, an intelligence man under Nasser who later became Minister of Information, during Mubarak's era, Forcing Egyptian artists to cooperate with the intelligence service and filming sex tapes of them with important personalities.

Khorshid said that many female artists were subjected to blackmail by "Al-Sharif", including the late artist Suad Hosni, who was recruited to monitor the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, according to her claim.

She also accused the former intelligence man of being involved in the murder of her husband's son, the artist Omar Khurshid, who was a friend of Mubarak, and the duties of friendship prompted him to threaten "Al-Sharif" by exposing his perverted practice, stressing that Omar died in a traffic accident orchestrated by the former Minister of Information in 1981.

She even accused the late film producer, "Al-Sharif" of being the one behind the murder of Soad Hosni in London in 2011. At the time, it was promoted that her death was a suicide, describing him as the outstanding student at Nasr School.

Following the death of “Al-Sharif” last January, Ihab Khorshid announced that he had received condolences for the death of his brother Omar, more than 40 years after his departure, and he said, in press statements to Masrawy, that he refused to offer condolences 40 years ago after the accident that was orchestrated to kill His brother, as he put it.

And Ihab added, "Safwat Al-Sharif tortured us for 50 years. My mother, Mrs. Etemad Khorshid, testified against him in the Revolutionary Court in 1968, and as a result of this testimony, after a minister took revenge on her and her children, nothing happened stranger than fiction."

He continued, "My mother was hospitalized 3 times, and she is the 113th member of the Film Industry Chamber and the Syndicate of Cinematographers, and the wife of the most famous director of photography in Egypt, Ahmed Khorshid, and no one thought to raise the phone on her. Media Production City is the idea of ​​my mother and father, and the drawings are presented by us, and in the end, someone came up with the idea.”

Sherihan

In the late eighties, the artist Sherihan had a terrible accident that forced her to undergo several surgeries, which disrupted her artistic career for several years.

According to the official papers, what happened was a normal traffic accident, but on the tongues, whispers grew that the accident was planned, and that the masterminds resided in the presidential palace and rejected the emotional relationship that linked the artist to Alaa, Mubarak's son.

The president and his wife were not satisfied with their son's relationship with an artist, so the way was to get rid of the powerless party in that relationship, so were the rumors renewed by the film producer Khurshid after the January 25 revolution.

Khurshid - who is related to Sherihan - said that she advised the latter to stay away from the rulers so as not to be harmed by them, stressing that she did not take her advice.

Who is Etimad Khurshid?

Her real name is Etimad Muhammad Ali Hafez Rushdi, but after her marriage to photographer Ahmed Khorshid, in the early fifties of the last century, she chose his surname to match her first name.

She worked in the field of cinema, and initially aspired to be an actress, but her marriage, at an early age when she was only 14 years old, kept her away from working in front of the screen and she turned to film production.

She founded a production company and participated in the production of a number of films, including “The Love of the Masters, Children of the Refuge, and Comic Wife Killing Society.”

She has published several books: "Witness to Salah Nasr's deviations, I entered the palace, my story with Abdel Nasser, witness to the deviations of Safwat Al-Sharif" and the latter was confiscated before it was put in libraries, according to the statements of its author.

malicious lies

On the other hand, there are those who consider what Khurshid has told for many years to be mere lies aimed at distorting state institutions, which is a crime that deserves to be prosecuted.

Last January, the journalist close to the authority, Muhammad Al-Baz, demanded that Khurshid be tried on charges of promoting what he described as lies and political gossip aimed at distorting the state apparatus.

Al-Baz explained, in his program "Akher Al-Nahar" broadcast on Al-Nahar TV, that Khurshid mentioned in her book that Salah Nasr forced her husband to divorce her, but during the investigations conducted by the Public Prosecution Office after the book was published, she said that she was the one who requested the divorce because her husband was cheating on her.

He explained that it was the film producer who sought to "weave its threads" around Salah Nasr, not the other way around, and continued, "This was done through the nephew of Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, the commander of the armed forces at the time, when she resorted to him because they were selling papers of a photo lab she owned."

He concluded his speech by saying, "Idda Khurshid, if she was right in what she says, is in the end one of Salah Nasr's personal deviations, and not the deviation of the entire intelligence service, as some claim."