Amal Maher cries on air: “Losing my father changed my whole life.”

In a rare moment of candor, artist Amal Maher spoke for the first time about the most painful period of her life: the loss of her father. During her appearance on the program "I Have a Question" with journalist Mohamed Qais on Al-Mashhad TV, Amal was visibly moved and tearful as she recounted the details of that harrowing experience that completely changed her life. She said, "If my father were alive, many things would have been different... A father is a pillar of support for his daughter."

The unforgettable moment of loss

Amal recalled the events of January 2016, when her father passed away days after a strange dream made her feel that something bad was coming. She recounted, "I woke up to a phone call from my brother saying, 'Your father wants you.' I ran, breathless... and then I understood that the dream was a sign of loss." She describes that period as the beginning of a long depression: “I spent two months locked away in my own world… I was completely broken.”

The final hours... the father's last plea

Amal spoke in a trembling voice about the last hours of her father's life, saying that the illness had weakened him to the point of memory loss, but he still remembered her alone. "He kept calling my name in his last days, and he didn't recognize anyone else... The moment he died was exactly as I saw it in the dream." She added that her father passed away on the first day of Eid, so that memory would remain engraved in her heart forever.

The beginning of the dream... from school to the opera

Amal moved from sadness to nostalgia for her artistic beginnings, speaking about the first person who discovered her talent. "The music teacher told my father: Your daughter's voice is exceptional, she must sing." Despite her family's reservations, her father eventually agreed on the condition that she sing classical music at the opera house. From there, she took her first steps into the world of art.

From Ammar El Shereei to the presidential appointment

Amal Maher recounts the story of her first meeting with the late musician Ammar El Shereei, who believed in her talent from the very first moment, saying to her after hearing her: "What a voice! People must hear it." And from here her career began. Her decisive moment came during an official ceremony attended by former President Hosni Mubarak, where she sang one song which turned into three at his request, after which she received a financial reward and became the talk of the town.

Amal says: "From that day on, people began to know who Amal Maher was, and a new phase began, full of challenges and a continuing dream."