The effects of the Saudi mediaDawood Al-SharyanControversy, through a joke he made with his guest, the Lebanese artist Nancy Ajram, when he said to her: “You are the singer who began to pray for her in mosques in a sentence, O God, Ajram our women.” Nancy Ajram replied: “Amen, I heard the sentence and a lot of love.”
David flirts with his guest, and he continued, “But by God, your coffee is an ornament, your sitting is an ornament, your home is sweet, and your mood is sweeter.”
Al-Sharyan was criticized by some observers for linking religion to art, while others defended him, noting that he liked to tell a joke in which he did not intend any bad faith or lack of respect for his religion.
