By: Aya Ibrahim, The Cairo Post CAIRO: Women dominated in TV drama series roles this Ramadan season but some art critics criticized the negative portrayal of women, that it did not reflect the challenges and problems of real women in Egypt. “There were no good examples of women in this season’s TV dramas,” Secretary-General of the National Council for Women Ambassador Mona Omar told Youm7 Sunday, pointing out that women appeared as belly-dancers and killers in the majority. Omar praised the role of Egyptian actress Leila Elwi in the series Shams (Sun), which showed the important role of women in the charitable sector. “Despite the good performance levels of the series Segn al-Nesa (Women’s Prison), it gave a distorted image of reality that woman only worked as drug dealers, dancers, or killers,” Omar said. TV shows should reflect reality without highlighting the negative models since it affects Egypt’s image abroad, he said. Omar called on series directors and producers to have a national conscience and present a classical product to Egyptian families, not to present a distorted image of Egyptian women. There should be several different forms of women…
