Sherine Abdel Wahab did not prey on Arab social media this time. The derogatory epithets against the Egyptian star, addicted and drunk, of hell and miserable fate, have melted into an ocean of sincere sympathy and solidarity.
The Arabs were finally convinced that Shireen, unlike the other stars, was as ordinary and lively as they were. Human, not screenwriter. Sherine, at least in public, loves, hates, frustrates, grieves, cries, loses weight and gets fat for her reasons, and shaves all her hair in revenge, or erases a bad memory. Believe that she, despite her stardom of hers, she is another anxious woman. She rises and falls and weakens and becomes a victim of addiction as they could be victims of their addiction and psychological challenges. In addition, they are surrounded, like any “oriental”, by males whose red rooster manes tremble on their foreheads in both difficult and easy situations. Suddenly they found that stars, like humans, fall and try again.
It could be karma. Sherine spread kindness and lots of wide smiles, most likely so that the sons and daughters of her haters sympathized with her with all this love, those who are not usually described with a love that transcends their images in their mirrors, and after them the Arab masses. And her frequent signs of her may be that she is in big trouble, whether in her songs about her, or in what she decides about how she looks about her, or in what she says and tweets. In a normal human situation, but one that plagues a deeply loved popular star, the fine line between her personal life and her stardom is lost. Sherine, who looks nothing like the stars of the current era. Not packaged. It is not a registered trademark, where every word is thought, every photo is photoshopped and every look is complete. Where not all broad smiles mean infinite bliss and happiness.
Sherine Abdel Wahab is not Amr Diab, as she is the model and example. The comparison between them does not necessarily offend Amr Diab, but it does clarify the idea. Amr Diab, without the slightest competition, is the ideal of what a modern, current, superior, complete and integrated interpreter should be. Workaholic. If he doesn’t throw fabulous hit parties, he works on advertisements that generate countless money and new trendy songs, audience plates. He works on a bright image in which he does not age and does not curl his cheek, a very professional team works on it, knows how to present his star to him while Apple offers him his products (a repetitive approach, but in his place of him). Amr Diab, who is over sixty, and it is shameful even to accuse him of treason, even though he dyes his hair blonde because he is still worthy of what he does, and does what suits him.
Instead, it is outside its registered trademark, and it does not exist. We only know rare photos and news about his personal life that are neither fattening nor enriched by the hunger for gossip. We can barely hear him speak. He doesn’t even speak. His last serious interview was with Mufid Fawzi in the last century, in his 90s, wearing pants that came to his waist and tucked a T-shirt underneath, and he says what sums up that the golden age of love affair. immortal Abdel Halim Hafez is over, and now an era of “how many years” has begun And I am miles away. “His prophecy has been validated. Since then, he is still a star that no one can break. we only see jumping on stage in all its freshness and muscle and screaming teenage admirers ranging from the late 1980s to those after September 11, 2001, as this is the latest milestone in the planet’s rotation. Undisputed star. Superman. stars.
Sherine, on the other hand, is not Amr Diab. He is more delicate and weak. He is from the planet Krypton and she is from our yellow sun planet. The last time I joked about him, with a high Egyptian sense of humor, she was misunderstood and the resurrection happened on her and she didn’t stand still. She was joking at the time, and the Egyptians didn’t understand the irony of the fact that he was just like them, he joked a lot and that there was no Egyptian limit to a clever joke. They punished her fiercely because she was having fun. Now, in her predicament, and without mirth, in her vague bed into which her brother had forced her, her husband who lacked talent and the ageless culture of raw masculinity, they realized, and behind them the Arabs, who, like them, joked and joked and laughed and cried and showed herself exposed for rude and malicious violence. Like them, she is broken, and dreams of being destroyed, so they have been with her or been close to her. Of course, women have preceded them to true solidarity.
Shireen, in this transparent biography, is not the daughter of her present age. She’s not good at playing the social media game and she doesn’t know how to get away from her indecency towards her when she thinks it hits her. He hits her deeply because she thinks it’s her insult to her person and not her as a famous star, a company. Bullies think it’s a deaf and unaltered wall. She decided, for example, to hide from the media after an overwhelming mockery of her confused stance on how to deal with the fires that hit Lebanon in 2019. At the time, she was sincere in her love for this country and her expression of la his inability to do what he could do, but he wanted faith to say the least. , to express her love for her. There was a bullying campaign that led to her retirement, of course, which wouldn’t last long. Like the immortal Sabah, she can only live under the light, with her art of hers and her life together, and there is no dividing line between the two.
Sherine is originally a good person. There is a lot of dangerous kindness in this description, but what has appeared to her so far appears to be so. She is a good, genuine and honest woman. Like Marilyn Monroe, Dalida, Soad Hosni and Lady Diana. The first three fought and fell victim to a strange and cruel world. All three ended up committing suicide and the fourth was literally murdered by the fame of his personal life of having no others. Not that Shireen commits suicide or that her end will be tragic. She is in front of her, and she is still in her forties. Defeat, as they say, is not destiny. She will choose her fate as she wants, as she is entitled, and without the cocks’ ability to interfere with her story of hers. At the end of the day, rooster cocks, no matter how tall they are, cannot crash into the roof of the sky. Roosters don’t always win and time isn’t time. Sherine will choose her own destiny, she is the one who originally chose not to be another star in the long gray line of stars, with a healed face, healed body, healed hair and a social media treatment so as not to deviate from the norm , and in a language that does not deviate a single letter from the lesson of planting the preserved. You are in a great crisis, it is true. But she is very different from the mainstream star idol. This requires optimism, solidarity and a lot of love for those who lie in their own bed, resisting to be better, better and closer to themselves.
With healing and strength for a good woman. Healing and strength.
