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The cell phone photo shows from left: Omer Adam and Mohamed Ramadan with the Dubai journalist Hamad al-Mazroui
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His offense: a photo that showed him at the side of an Israeli colleague.
Mohamed Ramadan is one of the biggest stars in Egypt (here his Instagram appearance), but after a picture of him was posted online where he can be seen next to the Israeli singer Omer Adam (here on Facebook), there were angry speeches at him Egyptian news broadcasts and being kicked out of the actors' union.
The controversy built up over the weekend when a journalist from the United Arab Emirates posted a snapshot of Ramadan putting his arm around Adam while visiting Dubai.
In addition the text: “The most famous artist in Egypt with the most famous artist in Israel.
Dubai brings us together. ”The photo has since been deleted.
The first commercial flight from Tel Aviv to Dubai took off at the beginning of November.
This was made possible by the establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
The foreign ministers of the two Arab states and Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sealed the project in Washington in mid-September.
The ceremony took place in the presence of US President Donald Trump in the White House.
Egypt made peace with Israel as early as 1979, and has been working together on security issues ever since.
The angry protest against Ramadan shows, however, that parts of the population do not conform to their political leadership.
There, contact with the former archenemy Israel is still considered a taboo.
Ramadan himself now distanced himself from the picture.
He said that he did not know that the other was an Israeli: “I don't know the nationality of everyone I am photographed with.
I don't ask about it either, ”said Ramadan.
"I never ask about skin color, religion or nationality."
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