The authors of “Sama Alia” attack the Dubai Foundation after removing scenes of the Arab-Israeli conflict

The authors of the Kuwaiti series “Sama Alia”, Saleh Al-Nabhan and Sheikha Bin Amer, issued a media statement condemning the Dubai Media Corporation’s deletion of scenes documenting the Arab-Israeli conflict within the events of the series without reference to its creators.

Dramatic damage

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The statement indicated that the deletion of those scenes violated the historical context of the ideas presented by the series, and that the makers of the work were surprised by the deletion of the scenes after the presentation of the work, especially since those facts, which were absent from the events, cannot be obliterated by simply cutting them from the context of the series. Which left a negative impact on the dramatic construction and disturbed its historical context.

The authors of the series added, “As the writers of the Sama Alia series, Saleh Al Nabhan and Sheikha Bin Amer, we declare our innocence of any intention that was made due to the selective deletion made by the producing institution, and as we announce this, we reserve all our literary, intellectual and legal rights by taking what we deem appropriate for us and the Sama series High”.

During the statement, the duo also explained that the series has won many awards; Among them is the award for best dramatic text, best direction, and best integrated production in the Stars Art and Media Festival competition in its sixth session in 2021.

Women’s struggle for equality

“Sama Alia” deals with an important historical period in Kuwait and the Arab world, which is the sixties of the last century, as it sheds light on the suffering that Kuwaiti women lived from the sixties until the current era, their struggle for equality and their rights to education, freedom to choose a husband, and her long journey from In order to obtain her legal rights, it describes women as the main pillar of society.

The two authors of the work were keen on linking the personalities’ social events with political life across different eras, merging the present and the past, and monitoring the great changes that occurred in society, both economic and political changes also after the Iraq and Iran wars, through the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait and its liberation, along with the Arab conflict with the Israeli entity. The occupier, which are the scenes that were selected and deleted by the Dubai Foundation.

The effects of the Corona crisis

The series “Sama Alia” directed by Muhammad Daham Al-Shammari, starring Jassem Al-Nabhan, Zahra Al-Kharji, Hamad Al-Omani, Fouz Al-Shatti and Abdullah Al-Turkmani, and was supposed to participate in the Ramadan Dramatic Race for 2020; However, the spread of the new Corona virus led to the cessation of filming more than once, to be shown last Ramadan, in addition to the death of the artist Suleiman Al-Yassin before the end of filming. But the authors of the work solved the matter dramatically.