Lam Shamsa .. Egyptian drama opened the door to confront crimes that are silent about it

The latest Egyptian TV series titled “Lam Shamsia” is a wave of shock within the local community, which found itself for the first time in the face of the issue of sexual violence against children that he has always avoided offering or trying to find solutions to it.
In recent years, the Egyptian drama dealt with thorny social issues such as addiction, nurseries laws and women’s rights in general, but sexual topics – specifically related to children – remain not welcome to address them to overcome cultural sanctities such as “the honor of the family”.
The series deals with either finds herself alone in the face of the lack of family, school and society, to expose her husband to sexual harassment by a friend close to the family.
On the journey of defending the child, viewers with Nelly (her role actress Amina Khalil) defines how Egyptian law addresses issues of violence against children and the reality of psychological support available to survivors.
The challenge facing Nelly in the protection of the child (Yusuf (his actor Ali Al -Bili) does not only lie from harassment, but also in the face of the actor who enjoys several social privileges, as he is a distinguished university professor and a teacher of the Arabic language for Joseph and his colleagues and a close friend of the family.
While the hero of the series, the child Youssef, and his wealthy family, enjoy the opportunity to obtain psychological support and asylum for justice, these two features of material and social luxury remain that most of the Egyptians do not have.

Stone in stagnant water -in the year 2024, the hotline of the child’s rescue of the National Council for Motherhood and Childhood received 21 thousand reports of children who were subjected to risks, including sexual and physical violence and neglect.
The head of the child’s rescue line, Sabri Othman, notes that “the actual number is much greater”, and explains that many families prefer not to report sexual violence for fear of social stigma “or defamation of the child, preferring silence.”
But it seems that the series threw a stone in the stagnant water, as Salma Al -Fawal, director of the Child Protection Program at the United Nations Children’s Organization (UNICEF) in Egypt, confirms that the organization had a direct impact on the series.
She says, “Our partners have noticed since the series’s display an increase in the calls they receive from families to report cases or inquire about another,” she says.
It indicates that this coincides with the publication of a large number of survivors of their certificates related to violent cases that they were exposed to through social media platforms.
During the current week, an employee received a school accused of assaulting a fifth child in life sentence in conjunction with a major campaign through social media, which demanded the punishment of the perpetrator in this case.
Al -Fawal says that the series dealt with the topic “with interest, craftsmanship and sympathy”, describing the work as an “exceptional” model of the role that the drama can play in “breaking silence and opening the way for an actual public debate.”