{"id":25607,"date":"2013-06-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/25607\/egyptians-protest-calls-to-ban-ballet-with-street-performance"},"modified":"2023-08-30T07:27:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T07:27:14","slug":"egyptians-protest-calls-to-ban-ballet-with-street-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beirut.com\/en\/25607\/egyptians-protest-calls-to-ban-ballet-with-street-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptians Protest Calls to Ban Ballet with Street Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"  <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0R0KLOI2FCQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>  <br \/>  <br \/>  On Sunday, a group of ballet dancers broke out into a street performance outside Egypt&#8217;s Ministry of Culture in Cairo to protest an Islamic Shura council member&#8217;s call to put a ban on ballet dancing, which he described as &#8220;the art of nudity, obscene and against Islam.&#8221;<br \/>  <br \/>  Council member Gamal Hamed, of the ultraconservative Salafist Nour Party, said ballet dancing promotes \u201cindecency\u201d in society.<br \/>  <br \/>  Before the performance, one of the dancers can be heard telling the crowd: &#8220;We are performing for the people of our country, the citizens of Egypt, the ballet that has been in Egypt for over 80 years.\u201d <br \/>  <br \/>  According to <a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/UI\/Front\/MultimediaInner.aspx?NewsContentID=73651&#038;newsportalname=Multimedia\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\"> Al-Ahram newspaper <\/a>, the performance happened during a demonstration by members of Egypt\u2019s arts and culture scene who have been protesting the policies of the newly-appointed culture minister, Alaa Abdel-Aziz, who has sacked a number of high profile officials in the ministry.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday, a group of ballet 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