After she appeared in a television interview and talked about the character of her husband, the Egyptian scriptwriter Osama Anwar Okasha, the late’s family responded in a statement to his second wife.
The widow of Osama Anwar Okasha, the Egyptian artist Abeer Mounir, revealed personal aspects of her late husband, saying: “He was romantic and poetic, he gave me everything, and he was inspiring me beyond what anyone imagined.”
The family of the late writer refused to discuss his personal life in television programs, and said in its statement issued today, Tuesday: “The family followed with great displeasure the media interviews broadcast on some channels about the father.”
The statement added: “It is no secret to anyone that the father is not only considered the head of the family of Osama Anwar Okasha, but, as the phrase is always repeated on the lips of his loved ones (this is not your father, but this is all of us), and this was not from a vacuum, but rather the product of years in which our father mocked the idea of leaving Impact, value and heritage that elevate the conscience of his audience… This loving audience who, until this moment, has been following his works with passion as if they were presented for the first time and repeating his phrases that became like sayings.
Statement of the family of Osama Anwar Okasha
The family statement continued: “As Osama Anwar Okasha loved Egypt and the Egyptians, his fans exchanged him for the same love, not only the Egyptian audience, but also the Arab audience, who was called the Dean of Arab Drama as an expression of his appreciation for his value, and this great value was recently exposed, through the aforementioned meetings, with our respect for all its parties, of naive attempts to reduce them to personal details that are of no interest to anyone but those who speak them, while if our father was alive, he would not have touched upon them as he used to throughout his life.
The statement continued: “The father was keen not to go into the details of his personal life and to keep his family members away from going into it publicly, and we the sons and the mother respected this desire and refrained from talking about any details that concern us alone. We would have preferred that the media focus on the depth of his dialogues, his words and their implications rather than flattening them.” Talk about trivial matters to say the least.
The statement concluded: “Today, we felt that we had to issue this statement after what we repeatedly followed from the resentment that appeared either in the comments of his loving fans on these meetings or through their contact with us personally, and for this we record here our strong dissatisfaction in appreciation and respect for his wide audience, who now remember well the words of our father. In appreciation of him: (Ordinary people who love me are the ones who raised me to the sky, and they are the one who matters the most to me).
Widow of Osama Anwar Okasha
Abeer Mounir, the second wife of the late scriptwriter, said in televised statements: “I married him for the last 4 years of his life. It was a great experience. Osama was unique in every need. Humanity, romantic and poetic, was taken from him, and he performed very many things, support, back and wisdom.”
“Mounir” added: “He was my guide and my encyclopedia in life. He was very respectful and sane, very sophisticated in his actions. He always says that my pen will never break. I loved him because of his respect and principles. He was a man in all forms, and he cursed me very much more than anyone imagined. “
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