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The famous Egyptian screenwriter, Waheed Hamed, who wrote the scripts for several of the most prominent films of Egyptian cinema during the last four decades, died on Saturday at the age of 76, as announced on his Facebook page by his son, the film director. Marwan Hamed.
Wahid Hamed was transferred a few days ago to a hospital in Cairo after a health crisis, according to Egyptian media.
The screenwriter will hold his funeral on Saturday after noon prayer at the Police Mosque in the Sheikh Zayed area outside Cairo, according to his son.
Waheed Hamed wrote screenplays for movies and series Several of the milestones of cinema Walderma Egyptian women for the past forty years, including “the innocent”, “the wife of an important man”, “the birds of darkness” and “playing with adults”. AND“ community“.
A start and a ride
Waheed Hamed was born in 1944, in one of the villages of the Minya al-Qamh district in the Sharkia governorate in the Egyptian delta. And he came to Cairo in 1963 to study Arts, Department of Sociology. .
He began his career writing a collection of short stories entitled “The moon kills her lover”. He was a student of several great Egyptian writers, including Naguib Mahfouz, Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi and Youssef Idris, and the latter advised him to write for film and television, which is what Hamid did and achieved.
Waheed Hamed won the Nile Prize in Arts in 2012 and was honored by many festivals, including the Dubai Film Festival in 2017 and the Cairo International Film Festival in 2020.
Hamed wrote political and social articles in numerous Egyptian newspapers, had a wide audience of readers, and directed the screenwriting workshop at the Higher Institute of Cinema for four years, during which he studied several of today’s best screenwriters.
He married the press, Zainab Sweidan, and had a son, Marwan, who works as a film director.
Wahid Hamed has become one of the most prominent columns in Egyptian cinema in recent decades, and is known for providing social works with a political dimension that discuss issues of Egyptian society, and collaborated with stars such as Suad Hosni, Mervat Amin and Madiha Kamel.
The late screenwriter formed a film duo with the star Adel Imam, through which he was able to highlight the other side of the actor, famous for his comic roles.
Hamed’s cooperation with Adel Imam began with the series “Flying Boy’s Dreams” in 1978 and continued to include ten films, among which are: “Halafut”, “Playing with Adults”, “Terrorism and Kebabs”, “Sleeping in Honey” , and the last of which was the movie “Yacoubian Building”, which was released in 2006 and directed by Marawan, son of Waheed Hamed.
Wahid Hamed’s last public appearance was last month during his honor at the 42nd Cairo International Film Festival, where he was awarded the Golden Pyramid Award for lifetime achievement.
