Fatima Nabil has entered the history of Egyptian Television as the first veiled news anchor.
Nabil is the first among 3 veiled news anchors that will appear in Ch.1 and Nile News of Egyptian TV starting from today.
If I am not mistaken Fatima Nabil’s co-news anchor today was a Christian.
Contrary to what you think , Nabil is not the first veiled woman to appear as an anchor or a host on Egyptian TV. Kariman Hamza , the famous religious programs TV host was the first during the time of Mubarak. Of course she had to leave the TV from two decades if I remember right.
Last decade several TV hosts and news anchors who wore the veil demanded that they would return back to the screen but their request was rejected and they had to go to the courts. Already two of the veiled News anchors going to appear on screen this week got court order.
In March 2011 the Egyptian TV allowed veiled TV hosts to present TV shows mostly about family and social affairs.
Human rights activists work years for this to happen. This is just a step. Of course as this happens during the era of a President that comes from Muslim brotherhood some people fear that this is another step of the so-called “Brotherhoodization” of the society. Well those people must realize that 80% of the Muslim women in Egypt are veiled and that banning veiled ladies from working in their own National TV as TV anchors is actually a discrimination. Those people must know that there was an old court order since the days of Mubarak that enforces the veiled TV hosts’ rights to go back on air.
We will speak if the new masters of Maspero discriminate the Non-veiled TV hosts and refuse to appoint them , other than that I think there are much important issues we should focus on like the constitution , what the hell is going in Sinai , the IMF loan and the future parliamentary elections.
Now I will believe that the Egyptian TV represents truly the Egyptian society when I see a Black lady from Nubia or a Christian lady wearing a cross reading the news like Fatima. TV plays an important role in ending racism and prejudice in the society .
Anyhow the problem about Maspero is not about what the TV host wears or does not wear more about the mindset that needs to liberated from the regime and state’s control in order to be the people’s TV for real.
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| Fatima Nabil "by Hany Rasmy" |
If I am not mistaken Fatima Nabil’s co-news anchor today was a Christian.
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| Nabil and her co-anchor "by Hany Rasmy" |
Last decade several TV hosts and news anchors who wore the veil demanded that they would return back to the screen but their request was rejected and they had to go to the courts. Already two of the veiled News anchors going to appear on screen this week got court order.
In March 2011 the Egyptian TV allowed veiled TV hosts to present TV shows mostly about family and social affairs.
Human rights activists work years for this to happen. This is just a step. Of course as this happens during the era of a President that comes from Muslim brotherhood some people fear that this is another step of the so-called “Brotherhoodization” of the society. Well those people must realize that 80% of the Muslim women in Egypt are veiled and that banning veiled ladies from working in their own National TV as TV anchors is actually a discrimination. Those people must know that there was an old court order since the days of Mubarak that enforces the veiled TV hosts’ rights to go back on air.
We will speak if the new masters of Maspero discriminate the Non-veiled TV hosts and refuse to appoint them , other than that I think there are much important issues we should focus on like the constitution , what the hell is going in Sinai , the IMF loan and the future parliamentary elections.
Now I will believe that the Egyptian TV represents truly the Egyptian society when I see a Black lady from Nubia or a Christian lady wearing a cross reading the news like Fatima. TV plays an important role in ending racism and prejudice in the society .
Anyhow the problem about Maspero is not about what the TV host wears or does not wear more about the mindset that needs to liberated from the regime and state’s control in order to be the people’s TV for real.
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