Safia El Emari ( arz,
صفية العمري), (born Safia Mustafa Mohamed Omari, October 20, 1949, in
El-Mahalla El-Kubra) is an Egyptian actress. She was appointed as a
goodwill ambassador
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for the
United Nations
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in 1997, she resigned in 2006 in protest of the wars in the Middle East. She began her career as a
journalist
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, after graduating from the Faculty of Commerce,
Cairo University
Cairo University ( ar, جامعة القاهرة, Jāmi‘a al-Qāhira), also known as the Egyptian University from 1908 to 1940, and King Fuad I University and Fu'ād al-Awwal University from 1940 to 1952, is Egypt's premier public university ...
. She studied
Russian language and worked as an interpreter at international conferences. She participated in many
Egyptian movies and TV series.
She was discovered by the artist Galal Issa. They got married and have two sons.
Filmography
* Opera Ayda (TV series)
*
Al-massir
*
El Mohager
*
El Mowaten Masry
* Ana elli katalt Elhanash
*
Ghosts of Sayala
* Love Also Dies
*A'la bab El wazir
* Hekaya wara kol bab (TV movie)
* El-azab emra'a
* La waqt lil-demoue'
* Hawanem garden city (TV series)
* Layali El Helmeya (TV series)
References
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1949 births
Egyptian film actresses
Living people
Egyptian television actresses
People from El Mahalla El Kubra