The phenomenon of portraying this attitude is still present in the very recent Egyptian media.
#ELYOUM ELSABE3 MOVIE#
Knowing that his wife is pregnant, Farid Shawqy was pretty cautious about her health, hoping that after giving birth to more than one girl, to FINALLY have a boy… The movie was a comedy, yet I see it as black comedy… Here is a link the full movie on Youtube, if you want to watch it! They were a relatively an old couple, who had daughters that were in their early twenties and were getting married, when Karima Moukhtar was thought to be pregnant, at this old age. I have watched this movie a long time ago, so I can’t remember it very clearly, but I remember pretty much of it. The movie I was searching for turned out to be titled: “Ya Rab Walad!”, or “God, Please Grant Us a Baby Boy!”, which featured Farid Shawqy as the husband, and Karima Moukhtar as the wife.
#ELYOUM ELSABE3 SERIES#
I found it very irritating, yet I haven’t watch the series itself, and I don’t know what was exactly presented in it, so I don’t want to be judging a book by its cover… However, the intro was conveying a lot about the content… This is the video I came through, which was the intro to the series: I was searching for a movie that I thought was called “Mabrook Galak Walad!” or “Congratulations on Your Baby Boy!”, yet I found that this was the title of a 1979 Egyptian series featured by Nelly and Mahmoud Abd El Aziz. The topic is about women who might get divorced or have their husbands marry a second wife while they are still with them (polygyny) just because they gave birth to a baby girl(s) and not a boy! I see this as being sexual and gender-based violence towards every Egyptian woman that might go through this humiliation just because she does not give birth to a boy.Īs weird as it might seem, I have noticed that it is a prevailing social phenomenon in Egypt, and especially in rural areas and Upper Egypt, where giving a birth to a girl, and not giving birth to a boy, is considered to be a “shame”! REALLY?! I don’t know why this is the case… But I have seen this theme presented over and over again in so many Egyptian Arabic black and white movies, in which the wife was always blamed and being ashamed of by her husband (and sometimes by her family!) for “not getting him the boy”. We touched upon this topic in a sociology course I took last semester, which was titled: Arab Family Structure and Dynamics, yet we have not gone into so much details about it.
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When I was thinking about a topic for my attitude analysis paper, one very weird and irritating topic came into my mind.