Despite the impressive presence of the Egyptian player and Liverpool star Mohammed Salah at the World Youth Forum, in its second session, in the city of Sharm el-Sheikh, after the appearance of a statue of the Egyptian pharaoh, there is criticism of the sculptor Mei Abdullah, the statue.
Faced with a flood of criticism in social networking sites, sculptor Mei Abdullah, after her participation in the forum this year, came out to defend herself against criticism of her design for the statue.
"When I started the statue, I did not think it would be for the youth forum or for the exhibition. I started it on the Facebook page and I explained the steps and steps to define who has the talent and the desire to learn sculpture.
"It was not the work of rigid design or superstition, but rather the help of one who asks and wants to learn by following the steps.
She added: "Although many people asked me to stop explaining the steps as secrets of a profession, I refused and I spoke to the steps for the benefit of the followers, and the second step to what I decided to complete the forum, and reached the stage of gypsum, the administration asked the forum to be the statue of bronze and not gypsum.
"The important thing is when the forum decided that the statue of bronze should have been cast into bronze, and the casting process takes a long time to turn the statue from its raw gypsum to the copper ore, and I was surprised the last day before the statue was delivered to the forum. I refuse to hand him over to them. "
"The important thing is that the statue came out in the end, as you can see. I am not angry and I do not feel remorse, because I have done what can be done, not shorter, and negative comments will not frustrate me."
"I hope that people will learn the art of criticizing politely and respectfully, because some may not be critical," he concluded. "I am thankful for God and I bear the criticism."