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My name is Salah Helal
For us translators maybe not so far
but one can see - for example in ballet -
that the dancers had to buy new clothes
covering the whole body.
There is a change
I do not want to say if it’s better or worse
but it has consequences for some domains.
Nonetheless, our international film festival took place a few days ago
and we fight for our freedom of speech and freedom of art.
It is still going on, it’s a long process.
It’s difficult to tell.
It is too early to tell
it is a completely new situation for us
be it for liberals or Islamists.
The situation is new, the fact, that it is possible
to assert oneself and give an opinion
and many only discovered now that they have no opinion.
They have to work on an opinion, on a conviction.
As there is this gap
some ideological forces tried to fill this gap with religion or other ideas.
And if we talk about religion
it is not about the religion
but about their own understanding of religion.
A normal Egyptian has no problem with religion
with any of the religions.
But is it is not about the Islam for the Islamists
it is about Wahhabism, which is a certain understanding of the religion
which has little to do with the moderate
and ordinary Islam we live from the Prophet to now on.
That is actually the problem, because most of the people do not know
what Wahhabism means
They think that because they argue with the Quran and the Hadiths
they are representing the religion.