Controversy Over Egyptian Artist’s ‘Atheist’ Tattoo

May 20th, 2015 5:02PM
Enas El Masry

Over the past couple of days, several news websites across Egypt and the Middle East have been widely sharing a picture of Egyptian actress and singer Donia Massoud with a tattoo of Arabic calligraphy across her back that reads “My heart’s feud is with God.”

Even though the photo was first published on Massoud’s Facebook page in February, it resurfaced on May 14 on a Facebook page that communicates all that is new in the world of Arabic underground music.

The Facebook post reads “‘My heart’s feud is with God’ … Most probably, that is what reads on, Donia Massoud’s back, and that’s the tattoo which stirred all the controversy. She is in fact an atheist, but she’s free to do whatever she wants, and her songs are beautiful.”

Chances are high that the story would have gone no further, given that the page has a community of a mere 8,799 fans. But then everything was blown out of proportion after TV personality Tamer Amin dedicated three minutes of his show “Min El Akher” to introduce Massoud to those who may not know her, interpreting Massoud’s tattoo as an announcement of atheism.

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