Pages from Fatima Rushdie's diary

Love and art are the whole life of Sarah Bernard of the East, Fatima Rushdie, that sparkling pearl whose name remained the title of a great theatrical renaissance. She was a pioneer of Egyptian and Arab cinema, a devout lover in the niche of art, and her name was associated with the great artists of the era, most notably Naguib Al-Rihani, who wrote about her in his memoirs: "Fatima Rushdi worked i...