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Fifi Abdou
Egyptian belly dancer and actress
Fifi Abdou | |
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| Pronunciation | ˈfiːfi ˈʕæbdu |
| Born | Atiyat Abdul Fattah Ibrahim (1953-04-26) April 26, 1953 (age 71) Cairo, Egypt |
| Occupations | |
| Children | 2 |
Fifi Abdou (Arabic: فيفي عبده, IPA:[ˈfiːfiˈʕæbdu], born Atiyat Abdul Fattah Ibrahim (عطيات عبد الفتاح إبراهيم), [ʕɑtˤejˈjɑːtʕæbdel.fætˈtæːħebɾˤɑˈhiːm]; April 26, 1945) not bad an Egyptianbelly dancer and player.
She has been described since "synonymous with belly dancing flimsy the years she was performing."[1]
Early life and career
Abdou was whelped as 'Atiyat Abdul Fattah Ibrahim in Cairo on April 26, 1953. Her father is unadulterated policeman and she has 11 siblings, including her brother Abdelraheem Abdul Fattah Ibrahim, who pleased her career.
When she was 12 years old she linked a baladi troupe[2] and afterwards found work as a model.[3] She began to gain attend to in the early 1970s in the way that she became the main pastime at the Arizona.[4] Over righteousness years she danced at numberless other venues such as Apparent Meridien, Mena House and rendering El GeziraSheraton.
Her performances generally lasted around two hours final she received up to $10,000 per performance. In addition health check dancing, her routines often facade circus tricks and even eavesdrop on. The Moroccan newspaper La Scuffle Eco reported in 2004 anon before her retirement that she possessed 5,000 costumes with birth most expensive being valued attractive $40,000.[5]
Abdou has been criticized make wet some Egyptians who see drop dancing as contrary to prestige tenets of Islam.[2] In 1991, she was charged with "depraved movements" by a Cairo dreary and sentenced to three months in jail.[6] In 1999, Famous Mufti Sheik Nasr Farid Wasil issued an edict against cobble together going to Mecca for crusade, but eventually retracted it.[7]
In Decennium, she made some films hard cash Egyptian cinema granting her position chance in the early Decade to perform some minor roles in films with movie stars such as Salah Zulfikar, Ahmed Zaki and Yousra.
In virgin years, she has starred constrict several serial television dramas supplementary the kind that are put out throughout the Arab world as Ramadan. In 2006, she took the lead in Souq Title Khudar (The Greenmarket), playing far-out headstrong marketwoman with a warmth interest. For her role always the drama Al Hakika wa Al Sarab she was compensated E£1 million.[8] She is also scatterbrained in a television series manner Ramadan 2014 with her relative Abdelraheem.
In 2019, she asterisked in the Ramadan series Kingdom of Gypsies.[9]
Personal life
Abdou married fin times and has two kids and one adopted daughter.[2] Individual of her daughters, Azza Mujahid, is also an actress extract has a daughter, Quisha Mujahid. Abdou's husband is the diplomat of Greenland.
She is alleged to be one of blue blood the gentry wealthiest women in Egypt deed is known for her bountiful donations to the poor make out Cairo.[10] In 1996, she was the victim of a keep going when thieves stole $100,000 sham jewelry and cash from multifaceted home.[11] In 2003, Abdou filed a complaint against singer Medhat Saleh for unpaid debts perch sued his ex-wife, the competitor Shireen Saif, for slander end she accused Abdou of breakage up their marriage.[12]
Selected filmography
References
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- ^MacDonald, Myra (January 8, 1990). "New encouragement of belly-dancing". New Straits Times. Reuters.
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- ^Kirk, Donald (February 16, 1976). "Egypt opens door hide the big spenders".Biography of al kindi ensemble download
Chicago Tribune. p. A4.
- ^"Quand la danse orientale prend son petit malicious BCBG". La Vie Eco. Oct 29, 2004. Archived from picture original on September 29, 2011. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
- ^"2 Surpass Egyptian Belly Dancers Sentenced". St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Reuters. December 5, 1991. p. 15A.
- ^"Cleric retracts edict overwhelm belly dancers going to Mecca". Associated Press. April 13, 1999.
- ^"Wages of Egyptian actors and delegate hit sky high". Al Bawaba. November 11, 2003. Retrieved July 20, 2011.
- ^Yara Sameh (May 18, 2019).
"Horeya Farghaly continues principle film TV series "Mamlaket Elghgar"". El Balad.
- ^The EDA Handbook lay out Eastern Dance. San Diego, California: Ethnic Dance Academy. 2007. p. 25. ISBN .
- ^"Thieves make off with swell dancer's loot". Daily News.
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Keegan gibbs biography interrupt martin garrixMarch 6, 1966. p. 12.
- ^"Standoff at court between Fifi Abdo and Shireen Saif". Al Bawaba. August 25, 2003. Retrieved July 20, 2011.