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Shortly after the death of the late artist Shwikar was announced, questions began to circulate on various social media sites about her religion.
According to artistic reports, some have said that the artist Shweikar’s religion is Christianity, due to her personality and that her origins are Turkish.
The reason for the controversy was that the artist Shwikar, whose real name is Shweikar Toub Thakal, was born on the twenty-fourth of November of the year 1938 to a Turkish father and a Circassian mother, and her grandfather’s title was “Toub Thakal”, a Turkish title obtained by the owners of high standing there.
It was surprising to the public that her religion is Islam, which is the religion of her husband, the late artist Fouad Al-Muhandis, as the reports that spread about her converting from Christianity to Islam are unfounded and that her religion is Islam in the first place.
Reports also revealed that her father was named Ibrahim Tob Thakal, and he was Turkish. His wife was the mother of the artist Shweikar, a Circassian mother, and her grandfather’s title was “Tob Thakal”, a Turkish title obtained by the owners of high standing there.
Her great-grandfather, Toub Thaqal, came to Egypt during the Ottoman rule and worked as an officer in the army of Muhammad Ali Pasha, and her father was from the notables of the East.
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