Hekmat Fahmi

Hekmet Fahmy, also spelled Hekmat Fahmi, was an Egyptian Arab Actress and Dancer. Known as the “Sultana of Love”, she starred in several films and was a prominent belly dancer in Egypt, she began visiting nightclubs in Germany to perform her dances before the outbreak of World War II. She became romantically involved with German agent Johannes Eppler in Vienna, who was infatuated with her beauty and her “lustrous head of black hair” and “tawny skin”, and was subsequently recruited by him into becoming an agent for the Abwehr, feeding intelligence from Cairo. Using romantic liaisons with British officers to acquire information, she assisted with Operation Salam in 1942.