Elham Shaheen plays the role of "The Virtuous Prostitute" with the encouragement of Samiha Ayoub

Egyptian actress Ilham Shaheen sparked controversy on social media, after she announced her willingness to return to the stage again, through the play "The Virtuous Prostitute".

Elham Shaheen said that the play "The Virtuous Prostitute" is based on world literature, written by the famous international writer Jean Paul Sartre, and embodied by the artist Samiha Ayoub on the national stage in the sixties of the last century, and achieved great success with it.

Shaheen added, "We have not yet decided when and how it will be made again, and all that happened is that the artist Samiha Ayoub spoke about her during the activities of the Sharm El-Sheikh Youth Theater Festival," noting that it was a real shift in her artistic history, so I offered her to embody it and welcomed the idea and said She will take it out for her.

The French writer was inspired by the novel “The Virtuous Prostitute” during his visit to the United States of America, and briefed him on the details of a famous case of racism against blacks, the “Scottsboro case”, in which 9 black teenagers who happened to be on a train, were accused of assaulting two girls from Whites, dropped mid-flight and captured in Scottsboro.

One of the girls admitted before the judge that the nine defendants did not assault her, but the jurors and the court rejected her testimony and eight defendants were sentenced to death, while the ninth teenager named Roy Wright lived, and wrote his testimony in a book that inspired Jean-Paul Sartre's novel The virtuous prostitute.

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