Fawzia Al-Abbasi

Fawzia Al-Abbasi (Arabic: فوزية العباسي; October 1940 – 27 April 2021) was an Egyptian journalist and television pioneer.

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Fawzia Al-Abbasi
Born	(1940-10-00)October 1940 Cairo Governorate, Kingdom of Egypt
Died	27 April 2021(2021-04-27) (aged 80)
Occupation(s)	Journalist and television personality

Artistic Works

She presented many television programs since the beginning of television broadcasting in Egypt in 1960, most notably: Twenty Questions, for Adults Only, The World of Literature. Fawzia Al-Abbasi moved to the United Arab Emirates, where she presented successful television programs. She returned to Egypt in 1986 and started two new programs: Letters and Numbers and Kalima in the Evening.^[1]^[2]^[3] The Kalima program continued on the network for seven years and is considered one of the most popular shows she put out on Egyptian television.^[4]

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Family

Fawzia Al-Abbasi was raised in a prominent family. Her father was Lieutenant Colonel Fouad Talaat Al-Abbasi, the warden of Tora Prison, and her grandfather was Brigadier General Ali Pasha Al-Abbasi, the governor of Dakahlia Governorate in Egypt. Her mother was Munira Al-Zeini, daughter of a prominent figure in the Dakahlia Governorate, Al-Saeed Bek Al-Zeini. Fawzia Al-Abbasi's husband was the late Dr. Amir Al-Rifai of the Arab League and was one of the most prominent members of the Zamalek Club's board of directors.

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Artistic Works

Family

Death

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