So the month of Ramadan is upon us and will it’s blessed on everybody. This is a reality: I grew up in what was often called Japanese Beirut – the Christian quarter. So I used to be not precisely concerned in Muslim rituals. However I knew that “Ramadan” was a factor. The explanation I knew is as a result of every afternoon – Sherihan would present up on tv to ask riddles. I can consider her “amthal” (proverbs) in 1986 when LBC was merely in its infancy and teleliban was the display screen to look at nonetheless. Actually, the riddles have been typically too simple (like, how tough it was to choose Spain or Japan as a solution). However past the riddles, it was her. Proficient, mesmerizing, dancing, singing, with some gimmicky pc methods. She managed to be the middle of the present, with out it even trying like she was making an attempt onerous.
In fact, I knew Sherihan as an actress as nicely from a number of applications she was in (I can consider Rahma, or the epic Darouni Aeish amongst others). Certain, again then I used to be rather more concerned with exhibits akin to Magnum, or Hunter, or Evening Warmth. However as a testomony to her expertise, she can be sensible in no matter she was in (OK, simply to name a spade a spade, one in all her TV exhibits within the 90s was… ahem, not precisely traditional). Nonetheless, a number of different actresses have accomplished fawazeer (riddles) in Ramadan. I can consider Nelly for instance. To not throw shade on anybody any time you point out the fawazeer, folks of my technology would gravitate immediately to Sherihan.
Humorous, final 12 months somebody requested me once I posted a video of her on instagram “min hayde?”. A teenager from a way more current technology. I defined and linked one in all her Fawazeer intros. He got here again aghast “this existed and I had no concept?”. I at all times return to the identical thought, popular culture will at all times be the bridging hole in a society. Even once I was in East Beirut somebody like Sherihan was being watched (on teleliban) by another person in West Beirut. And if we met right now, I suppose we’d say “A2olak ah ah, a2olak eh eh”.
