The echoes of the murder of a university girl, Naira Ashraf, who was stabbed and slaughtered in Egypt next to the wall of her university in front of her colleagues and passers-by at the hands of a classmate, for refusing to marry him, still echoes with force mixed with anger, sadness, surprise and surprise.

The incident, which lasted less than a minute, started as a lightning fight in front of Mansoura University in Dakahlia Governorate (north of Cairo) between the student at the Faculty of Arts Naira Ashraf and her colleague Mohamed Adel, who is chasing her everywhere. And left her covered in blood.

With every horrific incident in Egyptian society, it appears affected by acts of bullying, some evoke movie and drama stars, and the controversy is renewed about the relationship of the spread of these strange and cruel types of crimes to the spread of violent behavior and bullying in works of art, whether television series or movies.

The unprecedented cruel crime in the country, the hideous details of which were documented by surveillance cameras, gained the attention of the Egyptian street and the Arab world, because of the violence, cruelty, criminality, indifference and ruthlessness that it included, similar to scenes that have been repeated in Egyptian cinema and drama in the last decade.

Egyptian and Arab viewers are accustomed to these shocking and bloody scenes in many series and cinematic films, mixed with acts of bullying, violence, sex, drugs and murder, starring young artists such as Mohamed Ramadan, Amir Karara, Amr Saad, Ahmed El Sakka and other stars, and moved to reality little by little in repeated scenes.

This is the product of the thug films of Al-Subki and Muhammad Ramadan,


from the security of punishment, he abused literature # Haq_ Naira_Ashraf

— Mohamed Abdelwahab (@mdabdelwahab) June 22, 2022

We demand that the Egyptian drama


be restricted. It is enough. We are enough. We are enough


. Mohamed Ramadan


, Ahmed Sakka


, Amir Karara


. The drama aims to deliver achievement, work and a real goal, and


it is not aimed at crime.


Suffice God and yes agent


No to Egyptian cinema pic.twitter.com/r1NA8SVdcs

— Deceased.

(@Drkarim48455950) June 22, 2022

After Ahmed Al-Sakka in Ibrahim Al-Abyad and his bloody scenes, we will certainly not forget Amir Karara in his TV series, the most dangerous thug series that was shown on TV. It is for Amir Karara, but the Egyptians #Mohamed_Ramadan is the hanger on which they hang everything😂

— olivier (@olivier0752312) June 20, 2022

The responsibility of artworks for the spread of violence

In an attempt to contain popular anger, the first trial sessions of the killer who was accused by the Public Prosecution Office of premeditated murder of his colleague began, after the intention was made and the determination to kill her in front of Mansoura University.

Some criticize the drama that has perpetuated bullying and violence in the past ten years, considering it a characteristic of the heroes of Ramadan series and cinematic films, which helped spread a culture of violence and transgression of the law and enhance the sense of ego among young people affected by their favorite stars.

The President of Mansoura University, Dr. Ashraf Abdel Basset, who witnessed the tragic and horrific incident around his university, blamed the stars of Egyptian drama for exporting scenes of violence to the youth and the Egyptian street without responsibility.

He said in televised statements, "We all know that the spread of the cycle of violence is one of the main reasons in which young people or this generation watch films with extreme violence from stars who are supposed to say about themselves that they are stars; they issue these scenes in their films, and there are producers who pay millions to devote these scenes. ".

"Those who call themselves stars are the ones who produce these scenes in films, and this is their product." The President of Mansoura University holds cinema and drama responsible for the killing of student Naira pic.twitter.com/3YVIW79k8v

- Al Jazeera Egypt (@AJA_Egypt) June 20, 2022

Media professionals, artists, critics, and writers criticized the spread of scenes of violence, brutality and lethality against opponents, promoting the use of machetes, knives and weapons in revenge, recalling images of girls and women in a vulgar and humiliating manner and treating them as human shields, hostages or private property, and highlighting this type of films and series to attract the largest segment of young people and influence. them negatively.

"We started reaping the fruits of their rotten work and their polluted merchandise that we eat today under the title "You are my lover, and the one who will bring you near is his death and your death", inspired by the cinema of Abdo his death


, Ibrahim Al-Abyad and the kings of Al-Jadaanah


"

— Mohammed Gamal🇪🇬 (@Mohammed_Q8_E) June 21, 2022

It is a Zionist scheme par excellence, and the evidence is this called Muhammad Ramadan, and what he is doing in terms of obscenity and out-of-the-ordinary pornography to corrupt the rising youth, and it has been implemented by the likes of these

- Jamal (@Jamal__223) June 22, 2022

#The meeting of the clouds


in this picture is the thug of Mansoura University who killed the student Naira, and the one with him is Professor Mohamed Ramadan, a role model for youth and the owner of the artistic and cultural renaissance in Egypt.


Masha Allah, Egypt is trending today.

pic.twitter.com/mCVdsALVNZ

— Hakim 🇪🇬 (@eNoPqbuAO670hZ2) June 22, 2022

Scheme, not art

For his part, the Egyptian artist Hisham Abdullah attacked this type of artwork, describing it as "a deliberate and systematic scheme to destroy religious and moral values, because the demolition of society begins with corrupting the morals of young people, tearing apart the family image, insulting scholars, and destroying family ties."

He explained - in statements to Al Jazeera Net - that the invocation that art is the mirror of society and the insertion of this bad quality of non-artistic works with this argument contradicts the truth, considering that what these works promote of corrupt, decadent and inferior models represent only the vision of their owners alone.

The Egyptian representative went on to say that the tools of this scheme are art and media, and those who own and drive them are working with or without intention to implement an agenda to destroy the bonds of Egyptian society and family in the name of art, freedom and creativity.

Art fights violence

On the other hand, there are those who reject this proposition altogether and in detail, and see that art accommodates all the works that it inspires from the reality of society, and it cannot be responsible for the spread of any negative phenomenon, because violence and crime, for example, are an integral part of the life of human societies and not heresy, as they say. .

In this regard, the author and scriptwriter Ayman Salama said, "Art has turned into a hanger in every crime that occurs in society, and they hold art responsible and say that the films of Muhammad Ramadan and Al-Sabki (producer) are the reason."

Salama wondered: "Before the existence of cinema and drama, was the crime hidden? Was life before the birth of Muhammad Ramadan was well-off and there was no crime? Art is not responsible, but art develops feelings and feelings and fights violence," as he claimed.

“Cain, when he killed Abel, did he see the films of Muhammad Ramadan?”.. Ayman Salama – Masrawy https://t.co/VFxEKFg7qp Did Cain see the films of Muhammad Ramadan? Mansoura

— ayman salama (@ayman_salama150) June 21, 2022

We cursed education inside the house


and dwelled in the films of Muhammad Ramadan and jealousy


of medicine. There are no films that develop in us the love of the country and work and the love of people and others


. Why do we not know about it?

— Sami Kamel Ali (@samykamlly12) June 22, 2022

The horrific incident received a great interaction among users of social media platforms in Egypt and at the Arab and international levels, and they launched more than one hashtag that topped some sites such as #Student_Al-Mansoura, #Haq_Naira_Ashraf and #I_want_to preserve_the girls, and some blamed the artworks that urge young people to adopt such behavior. unethical.

Others called for stopping the production and display of such types of artwork in order to preserve the unity of Egyptian and Arab society, and not to manipulate the minds and feelings of young people and influence them by some artists and producers who are looking for fame and money at the expense of the values ​​of Egyptian society.