Egypt: Goodbye Ossama Anwar Okasha · Global Voices
Tarek Amr

Ossama Anwar Okasha, one of the most famous Egyptian screenwriters and the one behind almost all of the top Egyptian soap operas in the past 25 years, has died.
Reactions from Egypt
Ahmed Shawky wrote about how he already misses his writings just few hours after he passed away on Friday:
Mina wrote in his blog, Voice of Egypt, about Okasha's death and his own opinion on his writings:
Mina then listed Okasha's most famous series:
Ahmed Shokeir also wrote in his blog, how he got to know about Okasha for the first time. He started by writing his opinion in one of Okasha's first soap operas, “El Shahd Wel Domou” (Honey and Tears):
Ahmed then wrote his opinion about Okasha's masterpiece, “Layaly El Helmeya” (The nights of “El Helmeya” district):
The Egyptian movie director, Mohamed Khan, also wrote a post in his personal blog about Okasha
As people normally do not care much to know the names of screenwriters behind movies and soap operas, so Mostafa Abdel Rabbou wrote post in his blog about Okasha, and how such an attitude has been changed with him:
And from other Arab Countries
It seems that not only Egyptian bloggers were sad for his death, but so were bloggers from other Arab countries. Rania El Gaabary, from Jordan, wrote about Okasha and how he has affected her writings.
Also Mohamed commented on the news post in AmmonNews, to say how he wished there was another Osama Anwar Okasha who writes about Jordanians the same way Okasha wrote about the Egyptian society:
Yaaaaz, who is an Iraqi living in UAE, sent the following tweet.
Allah yer7ama!. Such an amazing writer.
And Ali AlMasri tweeted to say:
But some others did not admire him that much…
It seems that some other bloggers don't share the same point of view. Hazem Ghourab isn't really happy with Okasha's writings and believes that he had his own hidden agenda:
Okasha has once criticized a historical Islamic figure, Amr Ibn Al Aas. Thus participants in Forsan El Haq (The Knights of Truth) forum, wrote here showing this disagreement with him, and some of them were even happy for his death.
Mahmoludnet wrote here about his feelings towards Okasha's death.
This made Alzubeir Abou Abdallah wonder if he has really attacked Amr Ibn Al Aas:
Tarik Ibrahim replied :
Whereas according to Ahmed Shokeir, Okasha's opinion on Amr Ibn Al Aas was misunderstood, and people didn't really get what he had said then: