This is a statement from us – Maii Waleed wel Asmak el Zaraa مي وليد والأسماك الزرقا and Youssra El Hawary – concerning an article that was published this last week in yourmiddleeast. This article was supposed to be about female artists in Middle East. We have both been asked for interviews with the journalist Alessandra Abbona who wrote the article in question. After it was published we realized that the interviews ended up as part of an article about Egyptian and Israeli artists and what unites them and not about female ARAB songwriters as she assumed We - Maii Waleed & Youssra El Hawary - find the title of the published article very specific to a sensitive topic that we did not agree to participate in. The title takes the article to a very different area than that which we were informed by the journalist Alessandra Abbona when she approached each of us individually for an interview. As much as we appreciate media interest in covering Middle East matters and their ongoing efforts to shed lights on new genres and voices of the arts in the region, along with the personal benefits of getting publicity in international media outlets, we find it very unprofessional of the journalist not to declare the original intentions of her feature. We believe that transparency is the key to respectful journalism and it is certainly unaccepted to include us unwillingly in a topic that we find irrelevant to our point of views. We therefore declare that this article – published in the form it is published in at the current moment – has been published without our consent and approval and has been written on this subject without our knowledge. Maii Waleed and Youssra El Hawary yourmiddleeast/culture/4-female-artists-two-egyptians-two-israelis-and-what-unites-them_19066
Posted on: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 08:11:02 +0000
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