15 Facts About Yehia El-Fakharany

Yehia El-Fakharany was a member of the university's theatre troupe, and he won the best actor award at the level of Egyptian universities.

Yehia El-Fakharany thus began his artistic career on stage where he starred in the play "Everyone with His Own Truth".

Yehia El-Fakharany collaborated with his father in several projects, among them the 2012 Ramadan series "The Foreigner Abd el-Qader".

In October 2020 Yehia el-Fakharany was sworn in as a member in the Egyptian Senate.

Yehia El-Fakharany was appointed by the Egyptian President, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, after he and the artist Samira Abdel Aziz were chosen as representatives of Egyptian art within the Senate.

Yehia El-Fakharany plays Salim el-Badri Pasha, an aristocratic young man who returns to Egypt from his foreign mission during Sadat's "infitah," or open-door economic policy and inherits a property of his father, Ismail el-Badri.

Yehia El-Fakharany's role was played by the artist in the first four parts of the series, while he appeared as a guest of honour in the fifth part.

Yehia El-Fakharany gets acquainted with the mystic sheikh Abd el-Qader of whom he had had visions back in England, and slowly comes out of the state of depression while embracing Sufism.

Yehia El-Fakharany dubbed cartoon films produced by the Walt Disney Company, and in the film "The Yacoubian Building" he had the role of the narrator.

The story revolves around Al-Shahhat played by Yehia El-Fakharany, who is begging with his daughter by singing in the streets of a town where the Caliph took power at a young age after the death of his father.

Yehia El-Fakharany rarely agrees to be interviewed as he prefers the public to associate him with his roles and he does not wish to interfere in their perception of him while appearing on social media.

Yehia El-Fakharany won about 50 awards during his artistic career, among them the Carthage Film Festival Award for the film "He went out and never came back" in 1984, the Catholic Cultural Center Award for the film "Return of a Citizen" in 1984 and the State Encouragement Prize in Arts from the Supreme Council of Culture in 1993.

Yehia El-Fakharany won the Cairo Arab Media Festival Award, the Award for Excellence in Acting from the 4th National Fiction Film Festival for "The Land of Dreams", and the Mustafa Amin and Ali Amin Award for the series "El-Hilmiyya Nights" in 1993.

Yehia El-Fakharany received the Faten Hamama Appreciation Award at the closing ceremony of the 38th Cairo International Film Festival in 2016.

Yehia El-Fakharany chose it with the belief that arts, culture, science and enlightenment are the basic pillars of humanity's renaissance, and most of all the pulse of our existence.