The life of the "leader" witnessed political adventures, including the distribution of leaflets in the streets
A popular celebration of "Adel Imam" reveals the identity of "Zaki Gomaa"
Issam Imam (left) and author Abdel Hamid Kamal.
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A celebration of the artist Adel Imam’s career in Cairo last Saturday presented a panoramic view of the various stations of the (leader’s) life and provided highlights for new scenes, which included stories about the positions of loyalty to his classmates, and references to his political positions and intellectual affiliations such as his love for the late leader Gamal Abdel Nasser and his bias towards the marginalized. Behind the scenes of his roles and stories, and his most prominent personal and artistic stations.
The celebration came within the framework of a symposium held by the Justice and Equality Center on the occasion of the publication of the book "His Excellency", by writer, politician and parliamentarian Abdel Hamid Kamal, published by Sanabel Book House, coinciding with Adel Imam's 82nd birthday, and in the presence of his brother, producer Issam Imam.
Writer Abdel Hamid Kamal said at the beginning of the symposium that "the book lasted nine months, due to the importance of the life of a person of Adel Imam's stature. It included chapters as well as the artist's career since his inception, his human and social composition, his intellectual, cultural and artistic tendencies, and his interest in people's issues."
Abdel Hamid Kamal revealed humanistic scenes about the character of “Zaki Gomaa,” which Adel Imam mentioned in the play “The School of the Rioters,” when he said, “Education is bad, oh Jadaan.
Where are the days of Refaa Al-Tahtawi, Qassem Amin, and Zaki Gomaa, who is Zaki Gomaa this?” Kamal continued that “Zaki Gomaa is a real personality, as he was the head of the acting team at the Faculty of Agriculture at Cairo University, and studied with Adel Imam, and the leader intended to highlight his name as a kind of He was shed light on him, and the great comedian went to him after he gained a share of fame, and celebrated him among his colleagues, as he also celebrated all his colleagues whom he met later, including the colleague of the amphitheater, the prominent Christian cleric Anba Basant, where Adel Imam insisted when he met him after an absence. For a long time in a public party, to set a date with him to renew communication between them.”
Kamal continued, "The human aspects of Adel Imam's personality are also reflected in the form of his relationship with his minor and major family circle, and attention to the details of their lives, as well as in his relationship with his companions and colleagues inside and outside the artistic community."
National composition
Regarding the national and political formation of Adel Imam, Kamal said that “the leader aligned himself at the beginning of his life with the values and ideas of justice and the defense of the marginalized, and in the early days of the youth he joined the ranks of the left, and joined an organization called (workers and peasants), as he told himself, and distributed political publications during this period, One of the funny situations he narrated is that the young man who was distributing leaflets with him was arrested, and when he discovered this after he returned to his home, he decided to surrender himself to the authorities, out of his desire for solidarity, and out of a sense of guilt, but his colleagues rejected his initiative and convinced him that such a step would harm his colleague more. In addition, it will harm him.”
Kamal added that "the leader, Adel Imam, had a special relationship with the head of the National Progressive Unionist Party, one of the leaders of the July 1952 revolution, Khaled Mohieldin, and also the secretary of the assembly, Dr. Rifaat Al-Saeed. The film (The Embassy in Architecture) at the assembly headquarters.
Kamal added that "Adel Imam was particularly in love with the late leader Gamal Abdel Nasser, and considered himself a defender of his national and social achievements," and that "as he recounted, when his wife, Hala Al-Shalkami, told him that she belonged to an aristocratic family, in reference to her well-known family whose members were leaders (The Constitutional Liberals), he replied with a laugh that he belongs to a stronger family, the man who overthrew these people in 1952, and he means Gamal Abdel Nasser.
Relationship with Arafat
Kamal also narrated that “Adel Imam had a very special relationship with the leader Yasser Arafat and the Palestinian cause, and one of the funniest situations that he experienced in this context was that when he was having lunch with Yasser Arafat once, the landline phone rang and he was the imam closest to him, so Arafat asked him to answer, The shock was that the speaker on the other side was the late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, who was shocked at that moment.
Regarding Adel Imam’s position on extremism and terrorism, Kamal said that “the leader considered confronting extremism and extremism his own issue, and when extremist groups tried to impose their vision in the city of Assiut at the end of the eighties, Adel Imam decided to go to the heart of Upper Egypt and confront the bats of darkness himself, with his presence and his art there. Adel Imam adhered to his confrontational stance, despite all the advice of the security services, because he believed that he was fighting the battle of his life.
And about Adel Imam’s “affairs” and their spread among the public, Kamal said, “Adel Imam’s affidavits have turned into a common saying among the people. And deviating from the text, and some of it is written.”
Adel Imam had a special relationship with the head of the National Progressive Unionist Party, and one of the leaders of the July 1952 revolution, Khaled Mohieldin, and also with the secretary of the assembly, Dr. Rifaat Al-Saeed, and he was not late to attend the celebration of the establishment of the annual gathering, as it is like clips from the movie (The Embassy in Al-Amarah ) at the assembly headquarters.
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