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During the last hours a great controversy was generated after the diffusion of the news about the residence of the artist “Hassan Youssef”, incarnating the character of the late Pope Shenouda, Patriarch of Saint Mark in a new series.
The official spokesman for the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Rev. Paul Halim, indicated that the church knows nothing about the preparation of a series that embodies the personality of Pope Shenouda III.
He explained through statements that if there is a dramatic play on Pope Shenouda III, it is necessary to return to the Church, and because the matter concerns an important figure in the Church and has a special place in the hearts of all Egyptians and Copts. .
The opinion of the artist “Hassan Youssef”:
On the other hand, the artist “Hassan Youssef” stated that he loves Pope Shenouda very much and has a great position with him like all Egyptians. A homeland in which we live, but a homeland that lives in us, and that welcomes the presentation of its character, but on the condition that the character is well written and is written in accordance with the position of the Pope, as it happened. with the character of the Sheikh “Muhammad Metwally Al Shaarawy”, then a candidate for writer Wahid Hamed to write the series.
The artist, “Hassan Youssef” indicated that he had requested two applications to star in the first series, that the director be foreign and that the second be the supervisor of the church to finance and manufacture the series, but the church indicated that it does not plan to present no artwork on Pope Shenouda, and the refusal is repeated. When artist Majid Al-Kadwani was nominated to do so.
