Rotana Silences Critics Of Its Business Model

It's a fact that Australian media mogul and Arab hater (Fox News and programming) Rupert Murdoch is one of the partners of Saudi production giant Rotana. Thus his stakes in the company entails that he owns some of the productions of Rotana including music, films and TV programs. He likes money and Rotana is a player in Arabic entertainment. The company has also brought us a lot of job throughout its 25 years in the business. Those are facts.

We star getting into opinions when we say he has a Jewish agenda and he favors Israel. He may favor those things and he might be part of a larger assault on Islam, but we really do not know for sure. Since a number of Egyptian composers and lyricists have expressed concerns over this relationship, and their rights going away from them to Rotana and its partner Rupert. Amr Diab's album started all the debate and talk. It seems that Amr Diab has lost the round and could not really defend himself against those charges.

Now comes in Rotana with its overpaid legal team, it took them two weeks to respond and now they are threatening those who make such charges. Per the variety news site Elaph, they are saying now those allegations are untrue and that those who continues to make those claims will be sued.  

"For 25 years and Rotana has been standing by the side of new talents and supporting those already famous  we help increase awareness of the Arabic culture around the world", "We have the biggest distributions operation due to our local and global partnerships"

They have also came to the defense of Amr Diab, recycling that such allegations are made by people who Amr did not want to work with in the first place. They maintain, that as a company, they own the rights to the Arab Archive and heritage of cinema and music, not a particular partner. Toward the end of their release, we will sue anyone who makes such allegations and insults to the company or one of its stars.  

All nice and dandy but Rotana has not denied those charges, they have not spoke about the nature of their partnership with Rupert Murdoch. He is a partner, which means he controls something. This is a business not some charity, so they are not in the business of preserving Arab culture because it's the right thing to do, they are in business of maximizing investors value.

Also keep on mind, half a dozen Egyptian singers have made the case that Rotana does not treat Egyptian stars well, they are in business to serve Gulf and Lebanon based singers, the Egyptian singers are in the backseat. The latest big Egyptian star to jump the Rotana ship is none other than the very capable and talented diva Sherine.

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