Haifa Wehbe, one of the Middle East's most prominent sex symbols, says she was reported after the performance at the American University of Cairo
A LEBANESE pop star was reported to Egyptian authorities because she wore a tight pair of shorts on stage.
Haifa Wehbe, one of the Middle East's most prominent sex symbols, says a female reporter saw the performance at the American University of Cairo last weekend and went straight to tourism cops.
The police informed the Egyptian Musicians' Syndicate, which licences performers in the country, and her manager was summoned.
The pop star tweeted: "I was shocked to learn that a female journalist has lodged a complaint against me at the Syndicate in objection to the shorts I wore.
"Has it become intentional [to jeopardize me] after every successful performance in Egypt?
"Or is this civilised look strange to some people?"
A spokesman for the EMS said they would not ban Wehbe but the manager was advised to "take into account the traditions and customs of Egyptian people."
The incident comes days after an Egyptian lawyer sparked outrage after saying women who wear ripped jeans deserve to be sexually harassed and raped.
Nabih al-Wahsh, a prominent conservative in Egypt, said raping women who wear ripped jeans is a man's “national duty”, adding that girls who show parts of their body by wearing such clothes are inviting men to harass them.
The shorts incident is not the first time Wehbe has been in hot water in Egypt.
In 2013 she apologised after releasing a song in which black Egyptians are referred to as monkeys.
In the lyrics, a child asks for "my teddy bear and the Nubian monkey", which Wehbe claims not to have been aware carried racial connotations.
She is facing a lawsuit from a group of Egyptian Nubians who claim that the song has fuelled discrimination against them.
Adul Raouf Mohammed, a Nubian shop owner from Cairo, said: "Some of our children are afraid to go into school because they know they will be called monkeys in the playground."
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