In the symposium moderated by director Amir Ramses, actress Lebleba expressed her happiness at being honored at the 44th edition of the Cairo International Film Festival, after her long career in cinema, television and show. Lebleba revealed the details of her artistic journey during a panel discussion at the Cairo Film Festival, which won the Golden Pyramid Award for Lifetime Achievement in the 44th session, in the presence of art stars, including the festival`s president, Hussein Fahmy, Laila Elwi, Elham Shaheen, Solaf Fakhry and others. she talked about her artistic beginning, and how she discovered her talent, and said that it was her family who encouraged her to enter the world of art, after seeing her imitation of her relatives in her home, and then she recounted the first meeting between her and the writer and screenwriter Abu Al-Saud Al-Ibiari and director Niazi Mustafa, who had an important role in her career artistic. She said that the artist, Anwar Wagdy, hid with glasses and entered one of the theaters in which she was working in Alexandria, and asked to see her through director Hassan Al-Saifi, so that she would share her first cinematic work with him. She confirmed that she worked with many directors throughout her artistic career, such as Atef Al-Tayeb, Samir Seif, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, Youssef Chahine, and others, and learned a lot from them, which helped her in her continuous development in her work.

The festival`s president, artist Hussein Fahmy, spoke about his choice of "Lebleba" to honor her in the 44th session of the Cairo Film Festival, and said that the festival`s supreme committee unanimously agreed to honor Lebleba, because her history is honorable and she deserves that celebration. The artist, Elham Shaheen, thanked the management of the Cairo Film Festival, headed by the artist Hussein Fahmy, for choosing to honor the star Lebleba, saying that she is the most honest artist in the artistic community, because she is a comprehensive actress whose equal is not found in the artistic community, and her competition is always honorable with her colleagues. The artist, Mahmoud Hamida, demanded that the artist Lebleba’s history be recorded in the “Guinness” encyclopedia, because she is an artist who has no equal in the world, due to her entry into art since her childhood and her preservation of her presence within the artistic scene, her position and her fitness until this time. The artist, Laila Elwi, spoke about honoring her friend Lebleba, and said that she is one of the distinguished artists in the artistic community, because she is similar to her in her artistic beginnings, but she has always been keen to preserve her work, which was number one after her late mother.

Edited by- Mira Khudair