The face is not strange. The sound that comes out of the kitchen of one of the satellite channels is familiar to the ear as he sings the famous Ramadan clip of Fouad Al-Muhandis, “My sisters fast and my wife wants to starve me.” It is the same sound that has always passed the ears of Egyptians and Arabs in televised reports that talk about the tragedies of peoples in Palestine and Libya Chad, China, Cuba, Russia, Eritrea, Somalia and others.

But the same voice is not wearing his famous helmet and jeans, but rather he wears the chef's hat and wears the chef's uniform, so it is not him, it is not reasonable that they are the same person, but after one minute the controversy ends and the cooking episode ends with the same famous ending, "Tariq Abdel Jaber was with you."

Tarek Abdel-Jaber is one of the most famous war correspondents who passed on Egyptian television from 1988 until 2008, when the former Minister of Information Mamdouh El-Beltagy issued a decision to return the most famous war correspondent in the news sector to the Maspero building. Abdel-Jaber returned to Cairo, but he did not return to his job again.

The history of Abdul Jaber, who was embodied by Henedy

Al Jazeera Net interviewed the most famous war correspondent for Egyptian TV, who appeared in the photo of the reporter in uniform, and Mohamed Henedy, his famous character in the movie "The Next Statement Came," drew from him.

Coincidence was the main driver of Tariq Abdel Jaber's life, who was governed by fate in all the details of his life. At first, it led him to his work as a war correspondent, and illuminated his way back to the spotlight again through his program "Chef Tarek" on the Egyptian Al-Shams channel.

Abdel-Jaber told Al-Jazeera Net, "Coincidence changed the course of my life and put me in Palestine in a completely fatal way. I was going to cover the war in Slovakia, so I received a phone call that I had to go back to Maspero because the place of coverage was changed."

"I learned after the return that the new place of coverage is Palestine," Abdel-Jaber continued.

Coincidences did not stop in Abdel Jaber's life at that point, but they often led him to coverage that sparked an uproar in years when his name was frequented among the world's top news correspondents. International channels used to transmit his distinguished reports quoting from Egyptian television. Standard Arabic to make the Egyptian colloquial with its own accent and beloved brown color a place in the hearts of its followers on all Arab screens.

A coincidence led him to the kitchen of the sun

Tariq Abdel Jaber tells Al Jazeera Net about his media return again, "The Chef Tarek program was not the program agreed to be presented with the Al-Shams channel team, but the main program was the correspondent program, in which I was going to reveal the scenes of the career in which I spent 20 years and the secrets of the interviews The reports I have conducted over a lifetime in all areas of conflict in the most difficult periods of the Middle East, but an invitation to dinner at my home for the broadcasters changed the face of my first meeting with the viewers after a period of long absence.”

Broadcaster Tarek Abdel Jaber is preparing the program "Divers in the Sea of ​​Egyptian Cinema" (social networking sites)

Abdel Jaber continues his talk to Al Jazeera Net, adding, "Cooking has been my hobby for years. I have always prepared feasts for my friends and invited them to have lunch or dinner together. I love cooking and love Egyptian cuisine since I accompanied my mother while she was preparing food and I watched her talk passionately about the breath in food, and about the difference The taste of food varies with each person’s spices, ingredients and workmanship.”

He added, "My lack of marriage contributed to the continuation of my passion for the kitchen, and the determination of the friends of Al Shams channel was the coincidence that opened the way for the Chef Tariq program, after the channel managers discovered my distinguished cooking and my different way of talking about the arts of preparing and cooking food, so the idea came to present a Ramadan cooking program and postpone the idea of ​​a program Correspondent until after Eid.

Abdel Gaber topped the trend in Egypt after returning to the spotlight from his program, Chef Tarek, not only because of cooking, but also for the social topics he added to the content of his program, not in depth, but in proportion to a cooking program.

Abdul Jaber says, "Our social issues link food and life. It is not natural for me to talk about major social or societal problems in the atmosphere of frying, roasting and preparing food."

Al Jazeera reporter reminds me of my youth

The chief Egyptian TV correspondent did not stop following the reports of correspondents from all conflict areas until today, and praises the performance of Al-Jazeera correspondents in the Ukrainian coverage, adding that Al-Jazeera correspondent Omar Al-Hajj always reminds him of his youth, with his different performances and distinguished reports.

After Ramadan, the Chef program will stop, and the character of the reporter, Tariq Abdel Jaber, will return to talk about the profession, what it was and what it is now.

The most famous Egyptian reporter adds that he is also in the process of preparing a program "Divers in the Sea of ​​Egyptian Cinema", in which he tells the scenes of many old Egyptian films and exciting stories about movie stars and stars in the beautiful time.

Years of exile and alienation

Great sadness sweeps Abdel Jaber when he remembers the period in which he moved away from Egypt and the loneliness, sadness and disease that befell him at that time, and he always keeps her away from his memory and does not like to talk about it, adding, "Thank God that it passed well."

Sadness also fills Abdel Jaber's voice when he talks about the technological boom that we live in today and did not appear at the height of his brilliance. A way to publish it through diaries that tell what was happening and the secrets he was told and which the ethics of the profession judged him not to reveal, but time was enough to open the door to tell what was hidden and was greater.