Alaa Abdel Razek - Cairo
In 2014, suddenly announced the withdrawal of the series "Ahly Alexandria" of the race for the reasons of undeclared Ramadan, despite the completion of filming and spending millions on production, and it was clear that the killing of the series in the cradle was a punishment for the industry who opposed the regime of President Abdel Fattah Sisi, To the artist Amr Waked and artist Basma.
The author Bilal Fadl, who is currently residing in America, said that he did not find any new news about his banned series. He paid for his opposition to the Sisi. His series was the first to be subjected to direct denial by the state and less solidarity.
"It is an honor for any writer to be banned or oppressed. It is strange that no free writer in this era is banned or oppressed. Naturally, the writer pays the price of his positions, especially if he has the honor."
Retire politics
"We have decided to stay away from politics and focus on their artistic career after years of political participation.
Ayed confirmed presidential candidate Hamdine Sabahi in the presidential election in 2014, and faced an attack from the Egyptian media after rejecting the nomination of Sisi, declaring that Egypt "will not be a successful state in the presence of a head of the military state."
The political position of Wakad made him unwelcome in the works of art. I said his works in Egypt, although he participated in international works of art, until he moved away from politics and returned to the hero of the movie "Monkey Beethalk" in 2017.
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Basma decided to retire from politics and focus on art after years of moving away from Egypt, and participated in the film "Sheikh Jackson", and in the second part of the series "My share and your division."
Basma explained in previous press statements that she believed in her ability to serve Egypt by working in politics, but she paid the price dearly. She should have taken the advice of director Dawood Abdel-Sayed to stay away from politics and focus on art.
Abu Naga rebel
In the wake of the 25 January 2011 revolution, activists were quick to prepare black lists of artists who opposed the revolution and participated in demonstrations supporting President Hosni Mubarak. These included Talaat Zakaria, Ghada Abdel Razek and Tamer Hosni, but these artists continued their artistic contributions after the January revolution unhindered .
On the other hand, many artists who refused the events of July 3, 2013, the Rabaa al-Adawiya massacre, the Sisi presidential nomination or even opposed the regime's policies are still banned from working in Egypt. Some of them reside outside the country and do not feel safe to return to their homeland. Artists in the era of former President Gamal Abdel Nasser, such as artist Faten Hamama, who left Egypt between 1966 and 1971.
The most popular artists are Khaled Abul Naga, who participated enthusiastically in the January revolution and was one of the most prominent supporters of Mohamed ElBaradei and remained an opponent of the Sisi regime.
His last artistic contributions to Egypt were "Dikour" by Ahmed Abdulla Al Sayed in 2014, and "Daoudat Al Majed" by David Abdel Sayed in 2015.
In 2016, Abu Naga was the hero of Ahmed Rushdie's "The Unknown Potato Seller," an animated film that was banned from the Dubai Film Festival and the Short Film Festival in Egypt.
The director did not rule out that the film's non-screening was due to the participation of his hero Khalid Abu Naga, who has generally opposed political views.
But the film won the Special Jury Award for best documentary film in emerging media from the 16th edition of the Miami International Short Film Festival, held annually in Florida, USA.
Abul-Naga participates in world-class art and expresses his political views freely through his calculations on social networks. He continues to oppose the Sisi regime and support the January revolution and criticizes human rights violations, exposing him to a severe attack by the regime's media.
The last of these statements was during the World Summit of Human Rights Defenders in Paris, where he expected the fall of "General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi" and the end of what he described as the "black wave" of repression, as happened in the French Revolution and all the revolutions that passed through this stage. "History teaches us that This stage will end and the revolution will achieve its objectives. "
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The list goes on
The list of artists who are chased by accusations of opposition to the Sisi continues. Hamza Nemra currently resides in London after being accused of supporting the Muslim Brotherhood and preventing his songs from being broadcast in the official and private media.
Other artists face judicial rulings in Egypt that force them to stay out of the country because of their participation in Egyptian opposition satellite channels broadcast by Turkey, including Hisham Abdel Hamid, Hisham Abdallah and Mohammed Shoman.
The instrument of forgiveness
Ahmed Malik, famous for his famous condom video during the anniversary of the January Revolution of 2016, apologized for his act and recently returned to participate in the film "A Shotgun," which critics deplore as a disgrace to the martyrs of the revolution. January, while his friend and companion sat in the famous video television reporter Shadi Hussein behind bars.