If you remember I once wrote about Hala Show special episode of prostitutes when her promos were aired in Egypt were aired ,I remember I said that if you don't want to see it , just take the remote control on turn the channel as easy as this
Well last week the controversial episode was aired ,I didn't see it , for truth I don't watch Rotana Cinema channel that much ,in fact I don't watch it at all , I watch ART Films and Movie channels they are better ,come on last night I watched Youssef Wahbi Classical moral movie "Mr. Bayoumi" , a movie produced from more than 50 years ,yet it can't be produced now due to the sensitivity of the topic
Anyhow I thought that after airing the episodes there will be discussions and attacks and I was true ,and the attack started in the daily Al-Ahram , Sayed Ali , who writes always on Saturday , wrote last week on Tuesday or another day I can't remember in the same page attacking Sarhan ,comparing her to Operah and How Operah is successful and caring under the titles "Operah's ladies and Hala's women"
Sayed like many other in Egypt don't hate or refuse the idea of discussing the prostitution in Egypt in a way to fight this inhuman profession but the issue here is that the Channel is not Egyptian ,it is a Saudi ,directed to the whole Arab world , yet Hala discusses it as if it were in Egypt , if you are in Arabic channel directed to the whole Arab world then you must cover it in the whole Arab world ,it won't be difficult for a lady like Hala Sarhan , to go and see it in countries like Morocco ,Tunisia and Dubai ,with my all respect to these countries and its people
Why always Egypt got the prostitutes,the crazy fanatics in the Arabic media ?? you only have to know how to read Arabic and go to Arabia.net and see how Egypt is always mentioned
Anyhow the big scandal and slap to Hala Sarhan came yesterday when it turned out that the girls that appeared in the show as Prostitutes who talked about their experiences are normal girls from the audience who don't work as prostitutes ,they agreed to talk in the show for 400 Egyptian pounds and promises of future prominent jobs ,of course with promises that their faces wouldn't appear and their voices will be changed through the mixers
Unfortunately what they got only 400 E.P and rest didn't happen ,when the episode was aired ,everyone recognized them from their voices and their faces ,in such programs usually a graphic black image is put in front of the guest ,so no can recognized him,in that show their faces were blurred , you and I may not recognized them ,unfortunately everyone who knew the girls knew them , and when they tried to speak to Sarhan about the other parts of the promise her secretary told them that if they opened their mouths again the episodes would be aired that time without any editing !!
You know I can't believe Sarhan with all her expertise used this cheap technique of Fabrication ,I mean she could have gone to the Women Prison to speak with the Prostitution's and sure she would get thousands of terrible sad full of tears stories but fabricating all !!
Those girls with my all respect sold them to greed and they have to pay what they had done , yes this shows us the economic conditions in Egypt can push anyone toward any thing ,I mean for 400 E.P and promises of Jobs ,they accepted to say that they were hookers !!
Already for your information all the audience in Studios in Egyptian and Arabic TV are paid groups ,it is not like in Europe or America ,the audience pay for tickets to attend Operah or Late night show with Letterman ,on the contrary they are paid money to attend usually they are from the hard working classes who need extra money and thus they will accept to appear in the most stupidest and silliest TV shows on the earth
Anyhow Now Hala Sarhan is considered as someone who is defaming the reputation of the Egyptian Society
She fabricates her news and guests to get what she wants ,and what she wants to show can be considered harmful to the reputation of the Egypt
Isn't defaming Egypt and her reputation the same charge Howida Taha was charged with in the D.A waiting now for a trial after two week where she may get a 10 years prison punishment !!??
at least Howida Taha ,the young editor in Al-Jazeera was making torture scenes with notifications on the screen that it is a re-construction of events while Hala Sarhan didn't say it is a re-construction at all !!
If the interior ministry thinks that Howida insulted it by showing the torture clips in Egypt , well Hala did worst ,the girls said that she told them to say that the Police takes money from hookers to ignore them !!??
So why do they leave Hala and go after Howida ??
Hala is worst that Howida , Hala is a big fat liar
Check here in Masrawy.com
And here are the footages from "90 minutes"
In Arabic
AFAIK, she was doing such practices since she was on ART. I remember about 12 years ago or something a similar controversy occurred after she aired something about prostitution (or may be it was rape, i don't actually remember) in Egypt. It cleared out the women and the phone callers were also fake.
ReplyDeleteThat was in ART
I remember her days in ART ,yeah I always felt that her phone callers were fake
ReplyDeleteyou know she speaks in Taboos in a way that she shouldn't , less serious ,in fact far serious ,she never shows the cure for any problem
Salam Alaikum Z,
ReplyDeleteI wish there was more wisdom in the Interior Ministry, or all the government for that matter.
Thank you for your thoughts.
@Sam, you are welcome dear, well the government has already wisedom , a different kind of wisedom that only works for their interest , this wisedom is actually stupidity because it excludes the people's and their rights from the equation
ReplyDeletejust want to comment why not other arab countris , why just egypt ??
ReplyDeletethe answer to that is the gulf countries with their stagnant mentalities that pay for these channels don t allow revealing all the negative things in their society
they just show the positive side which is sad really , brushing things under the carpet is not the solution
i notice this with aljazeera they never talk about qatar !!!!!!! saoudi arabia and their arabia channel they are targeting recently north africa there are series of programs about prostitutions , drug dealing , crimes , homosexuality etc like those things don t exist in saoudi arabia !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You are right Anonymous , it became a daily dish for the Media in the Gulf to have a crime pages from Egypt as if we were the only country in the world with crimes
ReplyDeleteIt is sad thing that we do not act it in the same way and expose their societies diseases, in the same way
we are nothing compared to them.
It is sad and should be stopped
really I miss the old days before the 1980s when none of them used to publish such nonsense