Died Thursday evening, artist Samir Alexandrani At the age of 82, after a struggle with illness, at Al-Nuzha Hospital, where he was receiving treatment, Najwa, the daughter of the late Samir al-Iskandarani, said that his burial will take place tomorrow after the noon prayer from the Lady Nafisa Mosque.
Samir El Iskandrani said in one of his conversations that he sings in Italian, English, French and Czech. And that Western and Eastern art mixed within it without conflict and that love was his motivation to study the Italian language.
Al-Iskandarani pointed out that his work with the intelligence services is a fundamental and distinct stage in his life, stressing that one of his grandparents was a Jew and converted to Islam.. One of the Israelis tried to recruit him while he was studying in Italy, and he helped bring down 6 Israeli spy networks in Egypt.
The story began with Samir al-Iskandarani receiving an invitation from the Italian advisor in Cairo for a study mission to Italy, and he went to complete his studies in the Italian city of Perugeria in 1958.
Samir Iskandarani was open-minded, educated, fluent in 5 languages, and loved dancing and languages, and Italy was like other European countries that were teeming with Israeli Mossad agents, who were looking for Arab and Egyptian agents to recruit for them..
Mossad agents focused on Samir al-Iskandarani to trap him through a young man named Selim, according to the group’s website, 73 historians.. Young “Selim” approached Samir Al-Iskandarani, but suspicion soon leaked to the artist about the young man’s suspicious behavior, especially after he learned of his American passport, despite the young man’s claim that he is an Arab. The bonds of friendship between him and Samir strengthened, and he told him that he had concluded some commercial deals, which required swift action and his confidentiality.
Samir al-Iskandrani decided to elude Selim, so that he knew what he was hiding, and deluded him that his great-grandfather was a Jew, and converted to Islam and to marry his grandmother, but no one has forgotten his Jewish origin, and that he is more inclined to his Jewish roots, than to the Egyptian. I was expecting this .. I am also not an Egyptian, Samir, I am a Jew.
Samir al-Iskandarani began his training on secret ink, distinguishing between military ranks, drawing bridges and military sites, and asked him to volunteer in the army upon his return to Egypt for a large fee, and Samir al-Iskandarani told his brother about the matter and asked him to conceal the matter and asked him to travel to Egypt and go to the General Intelligence, to tell her All he had, and Al-Iskandari insisted that he only inform President Gamal personally. Indeed, the president listened with keen interest to the story that Samir told.
Samir began working for the Egyptian intelligence services, and under the supervision of its men, who put the whole matter on the table for discussion, and started to turn it around, and train the young man on the means of dealing and the method of manipulating the Mossad experts, so that he was able to shoot down spy networks inside Egypt.
President Gamal Abdel Nasser invited him to reward him for his success in that game, and they called him in the Egyptian and Israeli intelligence services, when his success caused the resignation of the director of Israeli intelligence, Hartabi, “the title of the fox.”
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