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NOTE to all my friends, fans, students, etc:I am not against RELIGION (any kind of religion), Egypt or Arab countries. All I expose and criticize comes from HUMAN SENSE, HEART and CONSCIOUSNESS. I am AGAINST IGNORANCE, INJUSTICE, CORRUPTION, OPPRESSION, REPRESSION, EVILNESS in general & anything that underestimates my intelligence. The day I see and accept INJUSTICE and EVILNESS as natural facts one must resign to, I will consider myself a soulless creature.Hope THAT is clear from now on.:)"
- This was my answer to all of the dancers and friends who thought I should not feel shocked anymore for the INJUSTICES committed to Oriental Dancers in Egypt.
Lorna, one of the foreigner dancers working in Cairo, told about her eviction from her flat (where she lived for 6 years) due to the discovery of her profession (it seems her landlord didn´t know she was a dancer and, once she found out, she threw her out of her flat).
Now let me make this clear: Lorna is not a close friend of mine but I do know she is an honest, decent person and she didn´t deserve this treatment.
Furthermore, I owe her - BIG time! - for an episode that happened with me some years ago.
A crazy ex-boyfriend of mine was chasing me to kill me (YES, you read it right) after he discovered I dated another man after our break-up. Lorna took me in her home and even bared his threats for helping me. While the police did nothing to protect me (he actually DID try to kill me afterwards and almost succeeded at it if not by DIVINE intervention), Lorna offered her home and her help and I was the one who refused it because I KNEW the crazy ex would go after her too and punish her for helping me. She was kind, generous and brave and THAT I cannot forget.It´s only natural I feel sad and appalled by this SHIT* (excuse my french!) and I will never take it as an NORMAL THING (as many dancers made a point of saying); not in Egypt, not anywhere else in the world.As I mention in my comment (see the beginning of this post), I will not recognize myself the day I think mistreating a person or being unfair and offensive to her - because she´s a dancer - is a normal thing one must resign to.
If we continue accepting it and moving on with our heads on the floor, this mental retardness will never change.
Yeah, all of us has had stories like this; ´Wanna make a contest of the dancer in Cairo with more LUNATIC STORIES to tell?! I am up for it, BIG TIME.
But that´s not the point. Sure I´ve been denied appartments because I distracted myself and mentioned my profession; I´ve found a naked landlord in my living room because he presumed that - being a dancer- I would be interested in his wobbly bits; I´ve been thrown out of my own flat (for which I had paied 6 months or rent in advance) by a so called friend who "discovered" I was a dancer and "brought men over to my flat" (???). Want me to continue crying over the spilt milk?We´ve seen it; we´ve been there. IT DOESN´T MAKE IT RIGHT.
, please!
1 comment:
Don't Surprise, egypt in general is full of those people who will treat you very bad because you are a bellydancer, egypt is NOT a liberal country and a proof is all what you said here in this subject .
It's not a crime that your profession is a bellydancer (you are the master of your profession,freedom and your thoughts also, you are religious or atheist or deist,you are dressed or fully naked, it's all up to you at the end, this is your own freedom and no one sould fight you for your rights, but many people in some counntries won't understand this !.)
Anyways I wish that you are fine now, take care of yourself and thanks for your friend who helped you during your problem with ex-friend.
And me respect for you whatever you are a bellydancer or not (for myself I like your profession as an art and also as a material for female beauty, only people who sense of art will estimate bellydance ). Don't forbid us from your thoughts and your dancing work as usual. And don't be sad, liberty is always a precious dream for all of us ;)
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