Zaki Fatin Abdel Wahab

Zaki Abdel Wahab February 18 1961 March 20 2022 was an Egyptian actor and film director He was the son of renowned Egyptian singer Laila Mourad and director Fatin Abdel Wahab He graduated from the Directing Department of the Cairo Higher Institute of Cinema in 1983 Abdel Wahab worked as a second assistant director in the movie People on the Top 1981 and as an assistant director in many of Youssef Chahines films including The Sixth Day 1986 in which he made his debut as an actor He also acted in Alexandria Again and Forever 1989 I Love Cinema 2004 and starred in Yousry Nasrallahs Mercedes 1993 In 1996 Zaki directed his feature film Romantica which was a biography of his life He was the location manager of American films and miniseries shot in Egypt such as Mysteries of Egypt 1998 and The Mummy Returns 2001 Zaki married actress Soad Hosny in 1981 after she separated from the film director Ali Badrakhan However they separated after only a few months of marriage and he stated in more than one interview that the reason was his mothers opposition He died in 2022 after a battle with lung cancer