The management of the festival “Benghazi Summer” suspended the concert of the Egyptian artist Mohamed Ramadan, which was to be held on Friday at the stadium “Benina Martyrs”, to conclude the festival that started at the beginning of this month. celebrate .
The decision to cancel it came a few hours before the concert, which Mohamed Ramadan wanted to promote a lot on his social media platforms, as it was his first concert in Libya, but it was canceled -quickly delete all videos and photos of the show from all his accounts. , and without explaining the reasons.
Ramadan had announced that he would hold his concert in Libya after the festival was specially extended for one day to hold his concert, in which he was supposed to perform his songs and playing with dance bands, becoming “the biggest concerts in the country.” festival,” according to his description in the promotional video clip.
The management of the festival had to cancel the concert, as well as the concert that was supposed to take place last Thursday night, based on the instructions of the authorities when “monkey pox” was announced and concern about large gatherings . While the organizers of the festival hope to hold the ceremony later in October next October, according to reports from one of the officials of the festival to Asharq Al-Awsat.
He said, “The concert will be scheduled for a new date in the near future, and that Ramadan understands the urgent reasons that requested that the concert be postponed. off,” noting “what was canceled during the festival, which lasted two weeks. , two concerts due to fear (of smallpox).
Muhammad Ramadan had announced his concert in the city of Benghazi after he announced that he had canceled the concert, which was supposed to take place in the capital of Lebanon, Beirut, against the request of the organizing company commitment at the beginning of this month, after canceling several concerts that were supposed to take place in Lebanon due to developments in political events.
It is worth noting that the Ramadan concert in Beirut was supposed to take place at the Forum de Beirut on Saturday, but the organizing company asked the public to refund the price of tickets after be postponed due to “the special circumstances that Lebanon is going through.” through, especially the Israeli threats that disrupted air traffic,” according to the official statement.
“Mohamed Ramadan can be seen as a special case,” according to art critic Khaled Mahmoud, who told Asharq Al-Awsat: “Ramadan always tries to create a great aura around himself, whether whether it’s real or not,” noting that “he always tries to be present on social media platforms in a way that creates the popularity he deems appropriate.
He said, “Ramadan sees encouragement with statements, video clips, or even engaging in debates as evidence of success, and he works to repeat them clearly,” noting “that all these things will not remain in his artistic career, and what will remain in his legacy in the future, they are only works.”
The platform “X” saw blogs denying the presence of Mohamed Ramadan in Benghazi and holding a concert there, and some comments on the propaganda he made through his accounts included calls for a boycott of the concert, against the background of an announcement he published shortly before the president. concert for the benefit of one of the companies included in the lists of boycott products .=
