Naguib Sorror : The political Conflict in Action { The Tribute Series}

 

Naguib Sorror

Not from recent years, there has been this conflict between the cultural influences in society and the authoritarian powers.

This conflict heightens primarily in the developing countries. The reason could be the deficit of quality of life or just the outbreak of misfortunes approved by authoritarian powers. By mentioning the authoritarian powers in control, I don’t necessarily mean the government.

In fact, in most developing countries, the role of government is very much not present in people's lives. Of course, the ones paying for the absence of real government are the public. There is why other parties hold a bulk share of the governance role. Each comes with justified objectives serving their interests.

One of those cultural influences is Naguib Sorror. The life of Naguib Sorror was influenced

mainly by the injustices projected on him from the feudalists. Also, he was greatly affected by the lack of justice he witnessed in the society. This had major impacts on his life later on. As a consequence, his life choices were based on making sound social impacts as well. It began with his academic shift from law school to theater and cinema studies. Why? Because his choice was based on what he considered a public- effective communication method to deliver his views and opinions. His discovery was that the main driver for change doesn’t happen in courts but in the street.

The street has a very robust relation with cinema, music and theater. Please note that this industry is very historical in Egypt, exceeding a hundred years. The Egyptian street holds an unconscious deep- rooted relation with the golden screen. When I read more on Naguib Sorror and how he was convinced in the role of the Seventh Art, I started to connect this with how Egyptians make links with the artistic productions more than other types of Arts including literature for example. Not everyone is able or fortunate to read and write in Egypt. But, surely, the majority or all Egyptians can relate to certain movies or series. Even on social media, this fond of these productions transferred in the form of comics, reels & posts. The majority shares this liking of watching a good acting performance to tell a tale or narrate a narrative. This is also a method of emotional transfer where you get to go through the emotional and intellectual journey of the actor to be even more united with the tale/ narrative.

Naguib Sorror also had a communist inclination and found a circle or group to share his communist ideas, especially that he continued his studies in the Soviet Union. At that time, he was sort of disliked by the authoritarian powers. It was mentioned that some Egyptian fellows reported his communist activities but this strengthened his communist credibility.

He has a number of artistic productions that were at the time popular within Egyptian society. I got the chance to listen to some of his artistic works in the sixties and seventies. Personally, I was surprised by his words’ choice and the fact that these propagated at some time in Egypt. Apparently, the level of freedom and intellectual expression was certainly different.

Of course, these widespread productions were not in favor of the government. Since the propagation of any kind of views or opinion could influence the political arena and cause any imbalances in the authoritarian powers thermostat. He was admitted into a psychiatric hospital till his death. Again, there is this unconscious link between the social reputation and personality defamation as seen in Mai Zeyada and Enayat El-Zayat.

Lastly, Naguib Sorror the historical social influencer was given the title the Sound of Mind.