JEDDAH, 14 December 2004 — Young Egyptian actress Hanan Turk has achieved tremendous success since her debut in the acting world. It has led her to question this new-found fame and her strong feelings of fear of it.
Hanan graduated from the Egyptian College of Ballet with honors but has never taken on a role as a ballerina throughout her acting career. Hanan has expressed extreme anger at the way she was humiliated in the new clip she filmed with prominent Iraqi singer Kathem Al-Saher. The actress stressed that her participation was not credited as unique and she appeared as any other model who acts in a music video.
Hanan added that the actions of the director, who omitted most of the scenes she had done, was unprofessional and contradicted what she had expected. The production company tried to pacify the actress by adding a special thanks to her efforts in the script of the song, a matter that in fact lessened Hanan’s ire.
Al-Saher had chosen Hanan for the leading role in his music video “Ahibini” (Love Me), which is written by the late renowned Lebanese poet Nizar Qabani. The song is from his latest album “Ela Telmithoh” (To His Student), which was released during the Muslim Eid Al Fitr-holiday.