Moufid Fawzi assumed her character after he met her in Amsterdam

The departure of a man who deluded millions with the existence of a journalist named Nadia Abed

  • Moufid Fawzy and his daughter Hanan.

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Last Sunday, the Egyptian journalist Moufid Fawzi passed away at the age of 89, after a long journey in the world of print and television journalism, where he worked in “Akhbar Al-Youm”, “Rose Al-Youssef”, “Sabah Al-Khair”, and “Al-Alam Al-Youm”. And “Al-Masry Al-Youm”, and he also contributed to the preparation of radio and television programs, and the most famous program in his career was “Hadith Al-Madina”, while the imaginary journalist Nadia Abed, who deluded millions with her actual existence, was the most prominent incident that distinguished his journalistic talent, according to journalists. And followers.

Mufid Fawzy, who was born on June 19, 1933, and graduated from the Faculty of Arts, Cairo University in 1959, interviewed on television the late Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak four times, and interviewed a number of Egyptian interior ministers, such as Hassan Abu Basha, Ahmed Rushdi, Zaki Badr, and Hassan Al-Alfi, And Habib Al-Adly, and he was the owner of the first press interview with the artist Mahmoud Al-Melegy, and the first television interview with the world-class Nobel Prize-winning writer, Naguib Mahfouz, and he had a special method in his dialogues, which some called the “school of journalistic provocation.”

The late Moufid Fawzy narrated to “Sabah Al-Khair”, in which a journalist grew up, in an interview with the magazine in April 2016, the story of the delusional journalist, Nadia Abed, and he said that “the story began when he traveled to Amsterdam, when he was 29 years old, and there he met an Egyptian ambassador.” He has a daughter named Nadia, and she is a girl who received her education abroad, and she was a lecturer in public behavior, and she is distinguished by beauty and intelligence.”

Fawzi continued that he “sat with the girl from three until eleven in the evening, and he liked him as a classy model of the girls, and he got to know Amsterdam with her eyes, and when he returned to his hotel he wrote thoughts in her name, and after he returned to Egypt he continued writing thoughts, as if she was the one who wrote them.” And it was published under the signature of Nadia Abed in the magazine (Sabah Al-Khair).

Fawzi said, "There were fake journalist personalities that did exist, such as "Ahmed's wife," which was written by Ihsan Abdel Quddous, and another female figure, who was written by Anis Mansour.

Fawzi revealed that “Nadia Abed’s personality caused a major crisis when I photographed her with my pen as living alone in a building in the Gesr El Suez area, and that someone was knocking on her door and asking her to drink a cup of coffee together, but she refused, which caused a stir in Society and institutions, and caused her to stop writing for three weeks.

Fawzi continued, "Nadia Abed was something new in society, just as (Sabah Al-Khair) was something new in society as well, and many men admired her shocking and strong opinions, and one of them sent a letter to marry her."

Fawzi noted that “Nizar Qabbani asked to meet her, but his wife, Balqis, told him that she herself was Mufid Fawzi, and that Faten Hamama kept the secret, as Mufid Fawzi conducted an interview with her on five pages, and signed it in the name of Nadia Abed as an interviewer, and when the interview appeared published, they asked her about her opinion of the journalist. Nadia Abed, who interviewed her, said that she is a classy, ​​beautiful and civilized girl.

Fawzi said that he "issued three books in the name of Nadia Abed, and when money came to him as returns for these books, he would send a sealed letter from his press institution confirming that Nadia Abed is Moufid Fawzy."

It is worth noting that the Lebanese researcher Youssef Asaad Dagher mentioned in his book “A Dictionary of Pseudonyms and Their Owners” a catalog of Arab writers, who hid under pseudonyms, including men who wrote under women’s names, such as Zaki Abdel Hamid Suleiman, who was writing articles in the Egyptian Al-Sabah magazine, under the pseudonym “Abla Rose” or women who wrote under their pseudonyms, Jalila bint Saleh Ali, who wrote in the medical magazine “Yasoob” supervised by Yaqoub Sanua.

Mofeed Fawzy:

"Nadia Abed was something new in society, just as the magazine (Sabah Al-Khair) was something new in society as well, and many men admired her shocking and strong opinions, and one of them sent a letter to marry her."

The story of Nadia Abed began when Fawzi traveled to Amsterdam, at the age of 29, when he met an Egyptian ambassador with his daughter Nadia, a girl who received her education abroad, was a lecturer on public behavior, and was distinguished by beauty and intelligence.

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