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Sherine Abdel-Wahab Faces Charges Again For Mocking Egypt

January 6, 2019

  Notable Egyptian singer Sherine Abdel-Wahab is the talk of the town again for dropping yet another comment described as “offensive to Egypt” by lawyer Samir Sabry during her New Year’s eve performance. The general prosecutor received a complaint from Sabry on Saturday against Abdel-Wahab for a “joke” she said during the concert murmuring “I am such a waste on Egypt.” While Abdel-Wahab did not comment on the situation yet, her husband, singer Hossam Habib, released a press statements clarifying that she was criticizing a technical malfunction that happened during her performance. The malfunction led to the singer’s mic to cut off. Sabry is notorious for filing law suits against highly prominent figures who say statements he believes is unpatriotic or “inciting debauchery”. Saby believes that Abdel-Wahab slandered her home country, Egypt, by saying something on stage “thinking she was funny; however, if she [Abdel-Wahab] only knew that she is the silliest…of vicious characters, she wouldn’t have insulted the great Egypt,” he told Ahram Online. The lawyer thinks that Abdel-Wahab has not learned from her previous incident where she was sentenced to six months in prison over a similar comment…


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