Samih Sawiris: The El Gouna Festival is not the "birthday of Sidi El-Arian" and whoever hates his dresses does not watch them

Samih Sawiris: Whoever hates El-Gouna dresses "fears God" and does not watch it, and the festival is not "the birth of Sidi Al-Arian"

Engineer Samih Sawiris, founder of El Gouna, revealed his opinion on a number of criticisms directed at the El Gouna Film Festival.

Samih Sawiris spoke to the media, Sarah Dandrawi, on the "Interactioncom" program on the "Al Arabiya" channel, and these were his most prominent statements:

Surprisingly, my hair is white.

- The fire incident was not done by an active agent, because the theater is more important and it is easier to reach, and there is no stupid terrorist to leave the most important place.

- The cause of the fire was a short circuit in one of the stores, and I reject the idea of ​​describing it as divine punishment, otherwise life on earth would have ended if that was what happens when we make mistakes.

- I believe that the dogs are howling and the caravan is moving, which describes my attitude towards the haters of the El Gouna Film Festival.

- Those who hate the El Gouna Festival should not watch it and fear God by avoiding seeing dresses and artists, instead of looking at them and criticizing them.

- I feel bored at people's attempt to impose their guardianship on us and interfere in our lives, "this is a need between me and our Lord", and it is God who punishes me, not humans.

- One of the lawyers submitted a request to the Minister of Culture to cancel the festival's licenses. He is an unknown person, and the mere mention of his name is considered a success for him. I respect his intelligence, but as I said, "The convoy is going."

Describing the festival as “The Birthday of Sidi El-Arian” is not correct. Art festivals have some exaggerations, but this does not mean that all women are invited to imitate what is happening, and who is holding us accountable is God.

Every person has the right to lead his life as he likes, and to pray all day long, but he has no right to interfere in our lives and hold us accountable.

- Canceling the VIP classes in the festival hall made it look better, and I meant what I mentioned about the important guests having to sit with the rest of the invitees, because there are classes in all places, such as planes, and we may have to travel in economy class in the event of canceling the business class.

What was reported about the El Gouna Film Festival administration’s refusal of the presence of Mohamed Ramadan is incorrect, “Who will know better than me?”

- No one imposes anything on us at the El Gouna Festival. There are committees and a whole team that chooses the invitees and participants in the seminars, as well as those who are not invited, and there is no individual decision at the festival.

- Universal Studios is the one who offered us the participation of Mohamed Ramadan for free in the opening ceremony, and they paid all the expenses, and the song is good.

- I did not know that Muhammad Ramadan “had a lot of words” when choosing the song, because I do not follow those news, and we were committed to a word with Universal and we could not return to it because of the crises of Muhammad Ramadan, whose background I do not know, and I did not understand their causes.

- The delay in the opening ceremony was due to the broadcasting channel, which annoyed me because I like to keep appointments with my guests.

– The channel cut off transmission as soon as Muhammad Ramadan finished his song because of its association with advertising campaigns that must be shown, especially since they are responsible for the expenses of television coverage.

- I did not understand why I went to the stage twice with Yousra, and I do not know why the organizers did not coordinate with us what they wanted from us during the opening ceremony, but “it went well.”

- The city of El Gouna has about 70,000 people during the festival, and we discovered two cases of infection with the Corona virus, and it was often transmitted to the infected before they reached El Gouna.

- If we conduct a medical examination on all those currently in El-Gouna, we will find a number of them with other diseases that threaten their lives, and I feel that the danger of the Corona virus has ended in the world, and whoever is infected with it does not die.

The global repercussions of the Corona virus will not end quickly, and the tourism movement will not return between day and night, and it takes time to reform.

- I hope that the festival’s events will be talked about, because we host a number of international directors and artists in 120 events, but the media do not care about them and want to sell news of dresses, “not everything is a need to sell, to buy.”

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