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Halawet Rooh Film Analysis

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She finds herself in a huge predicament where eventually she is raped and banishes from her neighborhood. The film is directed by Sameh Abdelaziz, written by Ali Al-Gendy, starring the Lebanese beauty queen, Haifa Wehbe. Egypt and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) distributor for the movie has established that it made the verdict to eliminate the controversial drama from cinemas through both countries. The movie stirred up some major commotion caused by many things: from Haifa Wehbe’s over the top sexual objectification in addition to a profusion of sexual content and love interest of a young boy being harshly criticized to the pulling the movie out of cinemas being condemned by many of the Egyptian society as targeting freedom of expression. (“Censor chief quits over Haifa Wehbe film ban,” 2014). Ahmed Awad, censorship board head and film-maker, informed The Associated Press (AP) that he had given in his resignation in retort to Prime Minister Ibrahim Mahlab 's verdict to discontinue the movie from being shown. (AFP, 2014). Furthermore, the censorship board has the authority as a self-determining organization that applies the absolute decision on whether a film can be watched by Egyptian viewers. Mahlab had settled on pulling out the movie for having “excessive use of sexual

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