JK Rowling, a best-selling British novelist best known for her Harry Potter fantasy series, has offered support and encouragement to a young Egyptian writer who had reached out to her on Twitter, claiming that Egyptian female writers were a laughing stock in their country.
The Egyptian 16-year-old, Hagar el-Saeed, told Rowling in a tweet that in Egypt, girls could not do anything as freely as boys, and that people laughed at her whenever she said she was a writer.
The Egyptian 16-year-old, Hagar el-Saeed, told Rowling in a tweet that in Egypt, girls could not do anything as freely as boys, and that people laughed at her whenever she said she was a writer.
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Rowling then replied to Saeed with advice and moral support, advising her not to let people's laughter "extinguish [her] ambition".
| — J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 15, 2015 " style="color:#fff;" class="twitter-post-link" target="_blank">Twitter Post |
In the description section on her Facebook, Saeed says: "JK Rowling is truly talented, and I dream to meet her one day."
Rowling's encouraging reply appears to have inspired many others to show solidarity with the young writer.
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— Shirley Thomas (@SmurfGG) August 15, 2015" style="color:#fff;" class="twitter-post-link" target="_blank">Twitter Post |
On the other hand, some people disagreed with Saeed's claim that women writers were not being taken as seriously as men in Egypt.
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— Mahmoud Shteiwey (@Shteiwey) August 16, 2015" style="color:#fff;" class="twitter-post-link" target="_blank">Twitter Post |