Dubai, United Arab Emirates (CNN) – The head of the General Entertainment Authority in Saudi Arabia, Turki Al-Sheikh, touched on Wednesday the clothing of one of the participants in the “Saudi Idol” program, indicating that the aunt he wore was not a traditional garment in the Hijaz region.
And Al-Sheikh said on his official page on Twitter: “I have two voices that impressed me and touched me. I hope that the committee does not take my words. The aunt of the people of Hijaz…and the second from Jizan, who was at the end of the second episode, may God be upon him,” he said.
And the head of the General Authority for Entertainment wrote in another tweet: “This is not the clothes of the people of Hijaz, and the clothes of an outsider to us, nor is she our aunt … The people of Hijaz are on the eye and the head, but this is a distortion of our history, and we will not accept or allow the participation of any band or activity in entertainment with the aunt.”
And Al-Sheikh added in the tweet: “Even when the Yanbu Al-Ghaliya band came in the Riyadh season, they were wearing their uncle’s headdresses or the original aunt of the people of Hijaz,” he said.
The head of the General Authority for Entertainment entered into a discussion with a number of tweeters about the “aunt” and whether it was a tradition and clothing of the people of Hijaz, and Al-Sheikh insisted that the aunt was “an intruder” on the culture of the Hijaz region.