Nasha Mustafa Resigns Prior to the Stepping Down of Mubarak and Dreams of a Better Future

Nashwa Mustafa has submitted her resignation from the council of the Actors’ Syndicate and has asserted that her decision is final and will not be reversed. Nashwa has further added in a statement to the Egyptian al-Dastoor newspaper that she has felt guilt towards the martyrs because her generation was unable to help them. Nashwa also adds that she decided to resign after having witnessed the recent series of tragedies and explained that when she nominated herself for the position she had wished to use her office to serve Egypt but that she regretfully was unable to do much. Moreover Nashwa states that she feels a sense of responsibility along with her generation due to the fact that they were unable to help the youths who lost their lives. Thus Nashwa explains that her age cohort and herself did not provide for the youths the lives that they had dreamed of and when those same youths took to the streets to take matters into their own hands they were cut down by tyrants before they could realize their hopes.Nashwa also adds: “I pray that God grants paradise to all of the martyrs as they have brought happiness to my children ‘Abd Al Rahman and Maryam. ‘Abd Al Rahman will find a respectable job waiting for him once he graduates and God willing Maryam will not experience spinsterhood as when she reaches the age of 25 she will find an appropriate youth with an apartment and the capacity to get married at an early age. This is what the youths were trying to achieve, the same youth that my generation and myself watched on the television as they were being murdered at Tahrir Square. We are responsible in front of God for the lives of those martyrs and we are accountable because we did not share in their struggle. I apologize to Sally, Ahmed, Mina, Ramy and to all the other martyrs. I also say to president Mubarak that if I have sympathized with you then it is because you are old in age and the people were dishonoring you. On the Day of Judgement I will sympathize even more when you are held accountable for the lives of 300 martyrs. How will you answer for them then?”