In the year 2022, some celebrities rose to the sky of stardom, others approached the brink of oblivion, and stars fell into an abyss of personal crises and disagreements, which pushed them all to the forefront of search engines, and some parties sparked controversy that led to the return of simple questions about the future of the film industry and art in Egypt.

Search engines have been working for a few years as a mirror of the events of a year that passed, good and bad, but the most important thing is that it remains a living document that testifies to every person, every event, and every crisis, whether public or private, provided that it has attracted the attention of the pioneers of the World Wide Web.

By searching on the famous engines of the network, we monitored the stars who topped the list of the most searched and circulated on the network, where the trio Sherine Abdel Wahab, Menna Shalaby and Angham came to the fore as a result of the dramatic events that each of them went through, and Wigs was prevented from singing by a decision of the Musicians Syndicate, in addition to To one public crisis was the decision not to nominate an Egyptian film to compete for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

Menna Shalaby topped the search engines after being accused of drug abuse (communication sites)

The crisis of choosing a movie for the Oscar

October 2022 witnessed extensive controversy, after the committee in charge of choosing to nominate a film to compete for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film decided that the films shown during the year were not appropriate, which was supported by some critics as a step to correct the situation in Egyptian cinema.

While others saw that the decision harmed the Egyptian cinema in light of the presence of films that were able to achieve great success and revenues, and the list of films nominated to represent Egypt in the Oscars - in addition to "Kira Wal Jinn" directed by Marwan Hamed - included both "Crime" by Sharif Arafa and "Qamar". 14 ″, directed by Hadi Al-Bagoury, and “19B” by Ahmed Abdullah, in addition to the movie “Talaat Harb 2” directed by Majdi Ahmed Ali.

Magdy Ahmed Ali had announced the withdrawal of his film before the Syndicate of Cinematic Professions announced that no film would be nominated to participate in the Oscar competition, and the statement of the Syndicate of Cinematic Professions - which assigned the committee the task of selecting the film - stated that the decision was taken after the committee found that the films did not meet the conditions for nomination. for this year.

The crisis of 2022 was not the first that faced the committee, as the year 2021 witnessed another crisis with the movie “Souad” directed by Aiten Amin, which was chosen with promises that it would be shown before the end of the year at that time, in order to fulfill the condition for nomination for the award, which is the public show, which did not happen;

And he was excluded from the competition, which means that the committee wasted by choosing the right of Egyptian cinema to be represented in an international competition such as the Oscars.

Artistic pause and personal controversy

Despite the singer Sherine Abdel Wahab's announcement - in late 2021 - after her separation from her husband, singer Hossam Habib, that she will resume her artistic activity, she topped the search engines more than once with her personal problems, and not with her artistic achievements.

As her brother, Mohamed Abdel-Wahhab, and her mother announced - in telephone interviews on the "Al-Hekaya" program on "MBC Egypt" (mbc Egypt) - that the Egyptian singer had been admitted to a clinic for addiction treatment, and Sherine's brother and mother demanded that Hossam Habib be removed from her to save her.

Sherine stayed in the sanatorium for weeks, before she was discharged after obtaining medical approval for that, and Sherine returned a few days later, to announce her return to marry Hossam Habib again.

The Egyptian singer topped the search engines again, after the legal crisis between her and the Rotana company, which demanded Sherine compensation for not implementing the terms of the contract and presenting albums and songs that had been agreed upon.

Despite this, fans of her art were optimistic, especially after she traveled to Beirut with her husband for recreation, in preparation for resuming her activity away from crises, but she returned to the search engines again, after cameras captured her in a nightclub dancing, while her husband, Hussam Habib, sat next to her. .

Emergency crisis and artistic activity

Angham was suddenly exposed to a health crisis that required canceling her concert in Kuwait, which she performed two months after her recovery, and she had devoted a large part of 2022 to presenting a music program bearing her name, during which she hosted singing stars, in addition to her artistic activities.

Angham also topped the search engines in order to check on her health condition, after announcing - on her official Facebook page - about her health crisis last November and wrote: "The artist Angham was exposed to an emergency health problem, after which she had to undergo a major surgery that led to complications, which required She was detained in the hospital, and she is currently still in the hospital under medical care until now, and Angham tried to fulfill her technical obligations towards her fans in the coming period, but these complications had a great impact on her, and the doctors were forced to keep her in the hospital under medical supervision for a longer period.

And after a while, it was announced that she had recovered, after a surgery that caused a health crisis, from which she finally recovered.

Menna Shalabi charge

An artistic success accompanied by the artist, Menna Shalaby, this year, by leading her series “With the Rising of the Spirit”, the viewership ratings, and the series was the last Ramadan show, and she cooperated in it with the director Kamela Abu Zekry, and her movie “For Zico”, which also achieved strong revenues, succeeded, along with her movie “The Crime.” With director Sharif Arafa.

This brilliance and success concluded at the end of the year with the news of the arrest of Menna Shalaby at Cairo International Airport on charges of drug possession and her transfer to the Public Prosecution Office on November 25, during her return from the United States of America.

After she was released on bail pending the case, the Public Prosecution confirmed a few days ago the validity of the presence of narcotic substances in the possession of the actress, who said in the investigations that she was surprised after she passed the customs with 3 bags that she was stopped under the pretext that she had an electronic cigarette, and she opened her bag in order to take out the electronic cigarette, He asked her to search, then the security men asked her to contact her lawyer, after they accused her of possession of marijuana, and Menna Shalaby is still pending the case pending the final verdict.

Sherine Abdel Wahab, the permanent guest on search engines in 2022 (communication sites)

turn off wigs

Despite the solution to the crisis of festival and rap singers within the Syndicate of Musical Professions, after the artist Mostafa Kamel assumed the title of captain, the famous rapper Wajiz had a crisis with the syndicate that prevented him from singing in Egypt, which the syndicate justified by saying that Wigs did not attend any of the union’s meetings with Rap singers, while Wigs said - in his recent statements - that he was not in Egypt during that period.

The crisis escalated against the backdrop of Wigg's refusal of the union's decision to sing rap singers with the help of musicians from the union.