Sudanese actress Asia Abdel Majid, 80, was killed by a missile in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, as a result of the raging battles between the army and the Rapid Support Forces.
Eyewitnesses stated that the incident took place yesterday (Wednesday) when the fighting renewed in Khartoum North, and an incendiary shell targeted the building of her educational institution in the Shabiya neighborhood, causing her death on the spot, and because of the difficulty of transporting the body due to the deteriorating security conditions, her family had to bury her in the yard of her educational institution. According toAl-Arabiya Net.
Asia Abdel-Majid was known by the artistic name, and her real name is Asia Muhammad Tom Al-Taher Al-Kitabi. She was born in Omdurman in 1943. She is a descendant of a well-known family in Sudan, including the Tijani poet Youssef Bashir.
Asia married the late African poet Muhammad Muftah al-Fitouri, and gave birth to him Taj al-Din and Solara. She is considered one of the pioneers of drama and theater in Sudan. She graduated from the Omdurman College of Women in 1963, and taught in the same college before traveling to Egypt, where she joined the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Cairo, and there she fellowshiped with a number of Celebrities of Egyptian cinema, including the late star Ahmed Zaki, the late actor Ahmed Abdel Wareth, famous stars, Afaf Shoaib, and Samira Mohsen..
The late woman was subjected to political dismissal from the Ministry of Culture and Information in Sudan during the rule of former Sudanese President Jaafar Nimeiri, against the background of her Vitouri husband’s stances against the Nimeiri regime at the time..
It is noteworthy that Asia Abdel-Majid is the first Sudanese actress to go on stage, and that was in 1965 AD in a celebration of the one year anniversary of the October Revolution, where she presented the play (Bamsika), the first play to be shown on the stage of the new national theater in Omdurman, and the female lead in it was Asia Abdel-Majid. dubbed by the press at the time “Sudan’s first representative.”
