Maryam Fakhr El-Din and writing

I used to watch the late star Mariam Fakhr Eddine in black and white movies back then, and I thought she was a mermaid breathing love and romance, until I met her several times with my father, the late editor-in-chief of Al-Mawed magazine, Badih Serbey, in journalistic sessions, and sometimes in social sessions and events in the nineties.

I was surprised to find her lighthearted and very spontaneous. I remember how she comically narrated her daily life in Lebanon, where she lived in the Yacoubian Building, and how she met the late singer Fahd Ballan, and funny incidents that happened to them. But what caught my attention most at the time was her saying that she was writing a TV series that tells the story of a modern mother, and how she dealt with social challenges when she became a grandmother. The story was not turned into a TV series, but the star Mariam Fakhr Eddine said at the time that her acting in more than four hundred films enabled her to write the story in a dramatic way.

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By May Serbey Chehab, from the Book "Boulevard of Stars: The Golden Age of Arab Entertainment".