The National Council for Women in Egypt submitted an official complaint to the Supreme Council for Media Regulation against the "Kalam al-Nas" program, presented by the Egyptian broadcaster Yasmine Ezz, in which it expressed its rejection of the content, which the council described as offensive, and demanded that it be stopped.
The broadcaster, Yasmine Ezz, presents a program entitled “People’s Talk” on MBC Egypt, in which she gives some advice to women in dealing with her husband, which the council considered “an insult, contempt, and belittling of Egyptian women, and harms them.” It is a content directed at ignoring societal awareness of what is being accomplished on the ground in terms of strenuous efforts to empower Egyptian women.
In a statement, the Council considered that the program "includes incitement to violence against Egyptian women, the normalization of humiliation and beating of wives by husbands, and that women must accept violence and humiliation without regard to the provisions of the Egyptian constitution, which includes more than 20 articles regulating issues of citizenship, equality, criminalization of violence and discrimination, and respect for women." And preserve her dignity," according to the statement.
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This step comes after the widespread controversy sparked by the comment of the President of the National Council for Women in Egypt, Dr. Maya Morsi, on her official Facebook page, in which she said, "The media person (who refused to mention her name) should remember that her professional history will be seen by her children and grandchildren, and they will not be proud, because the content is on space." The electronic is a personal imprint that exists for life.” And I asked her to review books and media charters, “which she obviously has not heard anything about because what she presents has nothing to do with the real media.”
Maya Morsi added, directing her speech to the media, that she must take into account that there is a generation of young people watching the program, "and she is destroying the idea of respect and partnership between the two parties, and before she sends messages to Egyptian women, she must learn first," according to the publication.
And she continued, "It is better for you to go out and announce that you are making a satirical program and that you are working on a trend and that you do not provide meaningful content."
Jasmine replies
On the other hand, the media, Yasmine Ezz, responded to the message of the President of the National Council for Women on her Facebook page, and expressed her astonishment that the author of the message should be in a position whose words should be high-level, balanced, and objective, and that the matter should not turn into a "fascination", personalization, and slipping into Words that are not appropriate for the official position, according to the post.
In her response, she added that what she (the president of the National Council for Women) likes or dislikes, she can discuss in her personal councils and not at the level of an official council, stressing that the main goal of the program “is to preserve the family entity and the principles and ethics on which we were brought up, and this is her private matter and she has Her platform in which she can say whatever she wants and practice her personal thoughts, but bearing in mind that official office should not be tampered with with personal opinions without daring to discuss any idea.”
supporter and opposer
These mutual statements received wide responses from public figures, as the journalist Tamer Amin, through his program "Akher Al-Nahar" on "Al-Nahar" channel, criticized Maya Morsi's writing on her personal page, and not through the council she presided over.
He said, "If she sees that there is delinquency and professional deviation from Yasmin, the program, and the channel towards the moral and social standards found in the constitution, and that the program urges the destruction of partnership and the relationship between men and women, a complaint should have been filed in the name of the National Council for Women." Yasmine Ezz responded to it.
The journalist, Sherif Amer, also directed, through his program “Happening in Egypt,” broadcast on MBC Egypt, a reproach to Maya Morsi for mentioning that the station is not Egyptian, while writer Medhat El-Adl, head of the Authors and Composers Association, praised Dr. Maya Morsi’s position, and wrote on His official Facebook page, "The respected always and forever Dr. Maya Morsi, greetings to an Egyptian woman who knows the value of a woman - any woman - and stands up to a broadcaster without any acceptance and tries - without conviction - to return to the era of the harem."
As for director Omar Zahran, he criticized Maya Morsi, and said on his Facebook page, "The president of the National Council for Women is upset with a broadcaster and blames her for calling on women to respect, appreciate, and sanctify the highest relationship between a man and a woman, between a husband and his wife."