Egyptian artist Rami Sabry responded to the criticism directed at artists who continue to photograph and record their artistic works in light of the war in Palestine.
Rami Sabry said during a live broadcast on his account: “The comments that say, ‘How are you singing when Palestine is going on strike?’ I mean, we won’t stay sitting, eating, drinking, or sleeping. It’s just that the people who write these comments don’t understand what they are writing on the basis of?” This is our job, and these are contracts that we wrote. We can’t afford to work on it.”
Rami Sabry added: “I don’t really understand the people who don’t want us to sing and work, and I get sad when I find people thinking like that, but I don’t have anything to do. Palestine, by the way, is being struck before we come to the world, and what are we going to do? We do what we have to do, and we might, for example, sing for Palestine.” We pay money and everything to show solidarity, but we stop our work.”
Sabri added: “As big as my brain is, people who say, ‘Why are you working, artist, and Palestine is clay?’ It is not Palestine that dies all its life. It is not Palestine, but no, all countries are like Bosnia, so we die too so that we can remain good, from your point of view? Isn’t this solidarity?” I can’t throw a party and donate it to Palestine.
