Amie Sultan dances with Forest Whitaker

CAIRO – 1 October 2017: American award-winning actor-director Forest Whitaker appeared in a video posted Sunday by Egyptian belly dancer Amie Sultan on her Facebook page, where she took him by the hand to dance with her.

Whitaker was honored at the closing ceremony of El Gouna Film Festival and announced a partnership between the festival’s founder, Naguib Sawiris and Whitaker’s Peace and Development Initiative.

In the video, Sultan takes the actor’s glasses and puts them on, and states in her post, “seeing through Forest Whitaker’s eyes at El Gouna Film Festival’s closing party.”

The video, which also shows founder of the festival, Naguib Sawiris and its director Amr Mansy, as well as other Egyptian actors, has garnered 19,000 views.



Meanwhile, Whitaker

posted

a picture of himself at the Giza Pyramids on his Facebook page, saying, “Such an inspiring moment today at the pyramids in Cairo #Egypt.”