Dr. Mohamed Abdel Wahab, husband of the late iconic Egyptian actress Faten Hamama, has filed a lawsuit against Al Ahram Publishing Agency and Asharq Al Awsat newspaper for publishing what said were fake diaries of his late wife under the title “Diaries of Faten Hamama,” according to independent Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm .
Wahab said that the late actress didn’t have a diary, that she never once thought of writing one and that she never met the journalist currently publishing the alleged diaries.
Wahab, who filed the lawsuit after the newspaper had already published the sixth installment of the diaries, stressed in his statements to Al-Masry Al-Youm that the journalist had no right to publish these diaries because he wasn’t granted permission to publish from Hamama’s family and because he isn’t in possession of any documents allowing him to publish them.
Wahab added that he chose to file the lawsuit to stop the journalist who plans to publish a book of the allegedly fabricated diaries.
Moreover, Wahab also denounced the style the diaries were written in. He stressed that the style of writing in the diaries, as well as the terms used are far from anything Hamama would write.
Ahmed Mohamed Habib, the lawyer representing Wahab, told Al-Masry Al-Youm that the false diaries were being published by one of the editors who tried to promote the sale of the diaries of Magda Al Sabahy, another Egyptian actress.
Al-Masry Al-Youm reported that the source of information in the alleged diaries might have been the late actress’s television and journalism archive, as Hamama did many interviews through the different phases of her life.