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If she wins the title, Anas Jaber will be the first Arab and African to win the Wimbledon Championship
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We start our tour of the British newspapers from the Financial Times, which highlighted the young Tunisian tennis star Anas Jabeur, who managed to reach the final of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships this year.
The newspaper said that the dream of winning Wimbledon still haunts Anas Jaber, who reached the final round this year after competing in it last year. When Anas was asked about the background image of her smartphone – which was last year’s Wimbledon tennis tournament for women – she preferred to postpone the answer until after the final match in this prestigious tournament.
Anas will achieve a great achievement once she plays the final match, as this will be the second time that she has reached the final of the tournament in a row.
Anas said, after her victory in the semi-finals against world number two Aryna Sabalenka this week: “My team always looks at me as if it is telling me: be patient, do not worry, it will come true, it will come.”
She added, “I’m a different player this year; I’m working on myself like crazy. You have no idea what I’m doing.”
“I am very proud of myself because the old version of me would have likely lost this match and would have been at home now,” she said while on Center Court last Thursday. “But I am glad that I dug into the rock and found my strength, and now I have the ability to turn negative energy into positive.” “.
Anas, who is called “Minister of Happiness” in her country, will carry Tunisia’s hopes for obtaining the title and seeks to be the first African and Arab player to win the Wimbledon shield and then the Grand Slam title, which she commented on, saying: “For me, there is one goal that I seek to achieve.” And I will be 100 percent ready for that. I hope to write history, not only for Tunisia, but for all of Africa.”
Anas holds the sixth ranking in the world, but her journey to the tournament was not strewn with roses, as she underwent surgery after participating in the Australian Open tennis tournament early this year. But the Tunisian international champion was able to recover and return to competitive matches last March.
Anas’ opponents often spoke of her warmth and striking beauty. After the semi-final match at Wimbledon ended last year, Jaber broke with tradition and dragged her opponent in the match to the center of the court so that she, too, would receive cheers from the crowd despite her defeat.
“digital feudalism”
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Thousands of Hollywood film and television writers are on strike to demand better wages
We turn to The Independent newspaper, which published an article in which writer David Arditi discusses the strike of film artists in Hollywood, trying to find its causes and the motives that moved them to stop working in protest against what they see as a lack of justice in the distribution of the profits of works presented on digital platforms for direct viewing.
The writer believes that the culture of direct viewing is the reason behind the current strike in the American cinema sector, because it changed the usual form of cinematic and artistic production in general and set new standards for work that made it difficult for acting, directing, or any other profession in the cinema sector to be sufficient to provide a decent life for artists. professionals.
Arditi said that the culture of direct viewing led to each actor getting “a small role in a movie or advertisement that is not enough to make ends meet, in addition to the changes in artistic production as a result of that culture that made the lives of these actors more difficult.”
He pointed out that these changes include “producers resorting to reducing the time of parts or seasons of TV series and increasing the time interval between them. Many actors also sign contracts that prohibit their participation in any other series or films, which makes it difficult for them to pay the bills that they owe in the intervals between parts.” series or movie.
He also shed light on the wide gap between the income of these actors and the CEOs of media, entertainment and artistic production companies, as a report issued by the “Deadline” website confirmed that the income of 13 CEOs in this sector amounted to $ 32 million last year, with the income of some of these managers exceeding the barrier of 50. Million dollars, which was criticized by the Independent writer, saying: “I’d rather the subscription fee that I pay for watching live go to suffering actors than to go to Rupert Murdoch or Bob Iger.”
The article pointed out that the television business industry has become a “gold mine” for direct viewing companies, while it is not considered the same for actors, writers and directors who, instead of reaping huge profits, have become in a difficult situation queuing in a long line waiting for their assigned work.
The writer gave examples of what the actors suffer, referring to a famous TV series consisting of eight seasons or parts, the gap between which was two years, leaving the television actors at a loss as they thought about how they would pay their bills due in the intervals between the parts. Adding to the drama of the difficult situation for these actors is the fact that they are subject to the seven-year law in force in California that excludes them from the ability to void these contracts while they wait to find out whether they will receive an offer for another season or not. The contracts also do not allow them to pursue paid work in Hollywood.
He pointed out that the large gap between representatives and executives with regard to wages sheds light on what could be called “digital feudalism”, which the writer saw as embodying the current era of capitalism, which he suggested is “a period of time that we are now living in, very similar to the period of transition from feudalism to capitalism.” .
2023-07-15 04:27:12
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