A character fighting human and judicial battles

“Faten Amal Harbi” returns Nelly Karim to crisis prison

• Nelly and Sherif Salama... A struggle throughout the series.

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Once again, the Egyptian star Nelly Karim returns to the roles of drama with her intellectual, psychological and emotional colors, to present during Ramadan this year the series “Faten Amal Harbi”, written by Ibrahim Issa, who is having his first experiences in dramatic writing for television, after a number of previous experiences in the cinema, in The director Mohamed El-Adl, who previously had a successful artistic collaboration with Nelly Karim in the series “For the highest price” Ramadan 2017, is addressing the time to direct the new series, which is still causing widespread controversy in the Egyptian street.

experienced

In terms of dramatic performance, Nelly Karim was distinguished, as usual, based on her long experience in complex roles, in the performance of the personality of a warrior woman and a simple employee in the real estate month, who is able despite all the social and psychological challenges she faces to resist her husband’s constant pressures, and ask for divorce to win a bet of freedom, even if limited , Ngztha strenuous legal battles against her ex.

Despite that, Nelly, like work, fell again in the prison of the "stressed" characters, who are trying to escape a bitter reality, and from countless psychological pressures, which seems to be repeated in all the workshops that succeeded in imprisoning the viewer "inside a crisis" of its heroes. In a way that seemed “suffocating” and intolerable, given that the story was devoid of suspense, and the plot lacked any new dramatic outlet, and it often fell into monotony, narration and repetition, as most of the scenes were limited to monitoring the suffering of “Faten”, with the exception of some dramatic lines. Support for the main plot, such as the secret that her close friend “Maysoon” (played by the star Hala Sedky) is hiding, or the controversy taking place between the corridors of the courts about the Personal Status Law, and the heroine’s discovery that a woman’s testimony in status cases is equivalent to half of a man’s testimony.

On the other hand, with the participation of a number of stars of the work, including Khaled Sarhan, Muhammad Al-Sharnoubi, Fadia Abdel-Ghani, Muhammad Al-Taji, and others, the actor Sherif Salama succeeded in presenting a character who rediscovered his artistic abilities to the public, after appearing in a complex role, which was overcome by negativity and psychological and emotional contradictions that the artist translated on Screen honestly and convincingly two signs.

issues and controversies

Perhaps the most prominent feature of the series is that it deals completely, with different technical levels, to the issue of the separation of “Faten” from her unjust and arrogant husband, “Saif”, who, over the course of the workshops and the development of events, restricts his ex-wife, who seems to have been forced to separate from her down the line. Upon her desire, taking advantage of the loopholes that the Personal Status Law suffers from, according to the vision of the writer Ibrahim Issa, who in most of his dramatic works provokes conflicting reactions and endless wide controversies in the Egyptian street, reaching something similar to media wars, due to the attention of a large number One of the human rights organizations and councils specialized in motherhood and childhood for the contents and messages of the work, and his call for changes in the law to guarantee women their rights, especially after the series “Faten Amal Harbi” extensively exposed the issue of marital movables and the dispute over their eligibility and how to obtain them, and raised the issue of preventing women under the age of 40 from receiving their rights. Accommodation in hotels in Egypt, and its discussion of a group of crisesAnd the issues facing Egyptian women after divorce, the most important of which are the educational guardianship of children, and the mother’s custody of the children in the event of her remarriage. The heroine of the work is going through her details and challenges through a long-running battle with the law to protect her children, and her resort to the “integrated services” center dedicated to hosting battered women.

problematic scenes

Despite the series “Faten Amal Harbi” addressing the issue of women, the enormous societal responsibilities placed on her after divorce, and the work messages calling for the need to revise personal status laws in Egypt, and to consider what does not serve the interests of women and children, the series has not escaped criticism. Wide, due to a number of dramatic scenes, such as the scene of “Faten” refusing to acknowledge the fall of custody from the woman, if he marries her to another, while an official source in the Sheikh of Al-Azhar denied what was circulated on social media about the commentary of Al-Azhar Sheikh, Ahmed Al-Tayeb, on the series “Faten Amal.” Harbi”, which sparked widespread controversy since the beginning of its presentation in the month of Ramadan.

• Sherif Salama excelled in presenting a character who rediscovered his artistic abilities, after appearing in a complex role.

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