“This is not strange to you.” Ghada Abdel Razek responds to Mona Zaki

- The Egyptian artist Ghada Abdel Razek, through the Stories feature on her official Instagram account, on Monday, shared a video clip of her fellow artist Mona Zaki in which she describes her as “very strong,” and said that she is one of her fans, and wrote: “I am honored to hear these words from a beautiful and great star like you.” Ghada added addressing Mona Zaki by saying: “Thank you for your beautiful heart and your refined feeling, but this is not strange to you,” and described her as “the Cinderella of Egyptian and Arab art.”

Mona Zaki was a guest on the “Al-Sawra” program with media personality Lamis Al-Hadidi on Sunday, on the occasion of her honoring with the “Creative Achievement Award” at the opening ceremony of the 9th session of the El Gouna International Film Festival. Mona answered her host's question about "fear of failure" by asking: "Who has never failed before?" She added: "This is the world...

You may be afraid because you want to maintain the effort that you have made in much of what you have presented, but if you have given a lot of your heart, with conscience and sincerity, even if you fail 6 times, you will still maintain your place in people’s hearts.” Mona gave an example of the career of her fellow artist Ghada Abdel Razek, adding that she is “not a failure, but rather a great and very strong artist, and I personally am One of her fans, she said that she is absent a lot, but people still wait for her at any moment. Because all the work I presented previously left a huge impact on them.”

She explained, "I deliberately talked about Ghada because she should know her value and realize that people will still wait for her." She confirmed that her colleague is "unique and possesses extraordinary strength and stability." She pointed out that she had recently seen her in an interview and addressed her by saying, "Look how much you missed! But the world turned upside down just because you appeared in a program, and this means that you left a mark on people. They are there all the time, and they are waiting for you again.”

Mona Zaki had touched on the word “fear” that director Shaker Khudair said in his talk about her career, while presenting her to receive her honor at the El Gouna Film Festival recently, and said that “feelings of fear, rising and standing” accompanied her throughout her life, and she expressed to her fellow artists her appreciation for their support of her, wishing to remain surrounded by an “artistic family” like them. Mona continued her talk about the difficulties she faced and the support she received in return, and addressed the young artists by saying: “Do not let fear control you. Try to ignore it and put it under your feet, because fear is a restriction.”