Haytham Said's music video clip - the first major clip featuring a veiled female lead, which Abu Aardvark readers learned about here - gets talked up today in both al-Hayat and al-Arabiya (with the al-Arabiya report being based on the story in al-Hayat). Al-Arabiya uses this nicely crafted title: "Former star of 'Super Star' presents the first 'muhajiba' (veiled) model in a video clip; the director is the same director who did the 'hot' Ruby clips; viewers consider the clip a defense of the values eviscerated by Ruby and Haifa."
The al-Arabiya picture for the story, which rather oddly does not feature the veiled girl who makes the story newsworthy. Go figure.
Both stories highlight the "shock" felt by the viewing masses when they saw Sharif Sabri's new video, which has been in heavy rotation the last few days. The story points out that the muhajiba (veiled girl) doesn't actually differ much from the other women in these clips - she's wearing tight jeans and a t-shirt, and she's quite attractive and flirtatious - but that her presence "shatters assumptions" about women in such clips. According to al-Hayat, the clip generated tremendous word of mouth, lots of buzz, and now everyone is talking about it - which sounds like a music video success story to me, whatever happens next! And, the story says, there's been a lot of discussion of the video on... blogs!
Inquiring minds want to know: when will the august Aardvark see fit to comment on the historic collaboration between J. Lo and Amr Diab?
Posted by: praktike | April 28, 2005 at 02:16 PM
haytham defends our values and baba gab mooz...
Posted by: Mohammed | April 28, 2005 at 09:00 PM