After describing his participation as courtesy... Ahmed Gamal withdraws from the Arab Music Festival

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Egyptian singer Ahmed Gamal joined the list of artists who apologized for not participating in the new session of the Arab Music Festival, scheduled to start in a few days at the Egyptian Opera House.

Gamal, who has regularly participated in the festival's activities since 2014, expressed his extreme anger at the statements of the head of the Egyptian Opera House, Reda El-Wakil.

Through his official page on the social networking site “Facebook”, Gamal wrote to explain the details of what happened, noting that for 13 years he has been participating in opera activities continuously, including the Music Festival, the Citadel Festival, the Alexandria Summer Festival and other activities.

Despite all these participations, what happened this time did not happen to him, which was that his participation was described as “courtesy” due to the fact that he was related to the festival’s president, Maestro Muhammad Al-Muji, his father-in-law.

Gamal commented on the matter, saying, “Unfortunately, the description came from Dr. Reda Al-Wakil, the head of the opera... and I was hoping that this description would come from someone responsible in a big place and an artist as well... because it is a great insult to me and my artistic career.”

Jamal expressed his astonishment at this description, because if his participation this time was a compliment, what about the past 13 years?

The Egyptian singer addressed his speech to the head of the Opera House, saying: “This is not appropriate, Dr. Reda, for a young Egyptian artist who built himself on his own with the testimony of the public... from the first day, and he was always at the service of the opera, despite the crises.”

If it was intentional embarrassment, or a slip of the tongue, they are all aspects of one thing, which is a lack of appreciation.

Therefore, Jamal decided to apologize for not participating in the festival, to relieve the embarrassment of Dr. Muhammad Al-Muji and out of respect for himself and the rest of the artists.