Zaki Fatin Abdel Wahab
An image from I Love Cinema, one of the productions that also features Zaki Fatin Abdel Wahab.
Zaki Fatin Abdel Wahab

Zaki Fatin Abdel Wahab

February 18, 1961 — Cairo, Egypt

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 Chahine's 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 Nasrallah's 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 mother's opposition. He died in 2022 after a battle with lung cancer.

I Love Cinema

I Love Cinema

2004

The End

The End

2020

Alexandria Again and Forever

Alexandria Again and Forever

1989

Cactus Flower

Cactus Flower

2017

Mercedes

Mercedes

1993

Sins of the Flesh

Sins of the Flesh

2016

Bayn El Samaa W El Ard

Bayn El Samaa W El Ard

2021

The Flood

The Flood

2017