Mai Omar Lands Her First Lead Role in TV series "El Loloa"

Egyptian actress, Mai Omar has landed her first lead role in TV series, "El Loloa" (pearl). She is set to begin filming her scenes in the coming period.

It is written by Zainab Aziz and directed by Mohamed Abdel Salam, which is set to be premiered outside the Ramadan drama marathon.

Omar's latest artistic work is TV series “El Fetewa”, which achieved great success during its premiere.

The series also stars Yasser Galal, Ahmed Salah Hosny, Diab, Ahmed Khalil, Ryad El Kholy, Mohamed Ragab, Mahmoud Hafez, Naglaa Badr, Ahmed Gamal Saeed, Aaidah Riyadh, Farida Saif Al-Nasr, Ahmed Khaled Saleh, Hanady Muhanna, Layla Ahmed Zaher, Diaa Abdulkhaliq, Edward, and others.

El Fetewa is written by Hani Sarhan, directed by Hussein El Menbawy, and produced by Synergy production company.

She participated last Ramadan with Ahmed El Sakka’s TV series “Weld El Ghalaba”, whose killer performance in the series had stunned everyone.

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This year’s Ramadan arrived during the coronavirus pandemic. The novel coronavirus was first reported in Wuhan, China, and has infected more than one million people and killed over 234,139 worldwide. It also hit several celebrities and top political figures around the world.

The virus is a new member of the Coronaviruses group, which was never identified in humans. The viruses’ family also includes Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS-CoV) and Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS-CoV), which cause illness ranging from the common cold to more severe diseases.

Coronaviruses are zoonotic, meaning they are transmitted between animals and people. Humans and animals such as mammals and birds can be affected by the disease.

The name coronavirus is derived from the Latin corona, meaning “crown” or “halo”.

On February 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the official name for the disease caused by the new coronavirus is Covid-19, taken from the words “corona”, “virus” and “disease”.

In December 2019, an outbreak was reported in Wuhan, China. On 31 December 2019, the outbreak was traced to a novel strain of coronavirus, which was given the interim name 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization (WHO), it was later renamed SARS-CoV-2 by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses.

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On March 11, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared coronavirus a global pandemic as the new virus has rapidly spread to more than 800,000 people from Asia to the Middle East, Europe, and the United States.

However, it announced the novel COVID-19 is still “controllable”.

“We are very concerned to achieve the alarming levels of the outbreak and its severity, as well as the alarming levels of inaction,” WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said at a press conference in Geneva.

“Now, COVID-19 can be categorized as a pandemic… we have never seen a pandemic spread due to the coronavirus,” Adhanom added.

“Describing the situation as a pandemic does not change the assessment of the threat posed by the Coronavirus,” the WHO director-general stressed.

Transmission of viruses between humans happens when someone comes into contact with an infected person’s secretions, such as droplets in a cough.

Coronavirus can also be transmitted by coming into contact with something an infected person has touched and then touching your mouth, nose, or eyes.

It is known that older people appear to be more vulnerable to the effects of the emerging virus.

The virus caused complete paralysis in all activities and events with large gatherings worldwide due to concerns over the spread of the virus.

People across the globe partake in self-isolation for 14 days as an effective precautionary measure to protect those around them and themselves from contracting COVID-19.

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Mai Omar: on focus 

It is worth mentioning that Omar, born on February 7, 1988, graduated from the American University in Cairo (AUC), Mass Communication department.

She started her career as a producer in the field of adverting, then got into acting in 2013 with her role as “walaa” in TV Series “Hekayet Hayah”.

In 2010, Omar, and director Mohamed Samy tied the knot, after a love story, and have two daughters, Taya and Celine.

She is known for her roles in 2019 TV series “Weld El Ghalaba”, in 2017 TV series “rayah el madam”, in 2017 TV series “Afaret Adly Allam”, in 2017 film “Tsbah ala kher”, in 2017 TV series “Al Ostora”, in 2015 TV series “Halet Eshq”, in 2014 TV series “Kalam Aala Wara”, and in 2013 TV series “Hekayet Hayat”.