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As-Suwayda
As-Suwayda' (Arabic: السويداء / ALA-LC: as-Suwaydā’), also spelt Sweida, is a mainly Druze city located in southwestern Syria, close to the border with Jordan.
It is the capital of Muhafazat as-Suwayda', one of Syria's 14 governorates, bordering Jordan in the South and the governorates of Daraa in the West and Rif Dimashq in the North and East.
The inhabitants of the city are mainly Druze with a prominent Greek orthodox minority.
The population of the city is 73,641 (2004 census).
The city was founded by the Nabataeans as Suada. It became known as Dionysias (Greek: Διονύσιας) in the Hellenistic and Roman times, for Dionysus the god of wine - the city is situated in a famous ancient wine-producing region.
The name Dionysias replaced the former Nabatean name of Suada in 149 AD after the Nabataean influence decreased and then concentrated towards the south, as a result of the accelerating Hellenization of Coele-Syria at that time.
Dionysias was a part of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea, and received the rights of civitas under the reign of Commodus between 180–185.
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Beirut
Coordinates: 33°53′13″N 35°30′47″E / 33.88694°N 35.51306°E / 33.88694; 35.51306
Beirut (Arabic: بيروت Bayrūt, Greek: Βηρυττός, Latin: Berytus, French: Beyrouth, Hebrew: ביירות Beyrut) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon. As there has been no recent population census, the exact population is unknown; estimates in 2007 ranged from slightly less than 1 million to slightly more than 2 million. Located on a peninsula at the midpoint of Lebanon's Mediterranean coast, it serves as the country's largest and main seaport. The Beirut metropolitan area consists of the city and its suburbs. The first mention of this metropolis is found in the ancient Egyptian Tell el Amarna letters, dating from the 15th century BC. The city has been inhabited continuously since then.
Beirut is Lebanon's seat of government and plays a central role in the Lebanese economy, with many banks and corporations based in its city centre, Hamra Street, Rue Verdun and Ashrafieh. The city is the focal point of the region's cultural life, renowned for its press, theatres, cultural activities and nightlife. After the destructive Lebanese Civil War, Beirut underwent major reconstruction, and the redesigned historic city centre, marina, pubs and nightlife districts have once again made it a tourist attraction. Beirut was named the top place to visit by The New York Times in 2009, and as one of the ten liveliest cities in the world by Lonely Planet in the same year.
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Cairo
Cairo (
/ˈkaɪroʊ/ KYE-roh; Arabic: القاهرة al-Qāhira, literally "The Vanquisher" or "The Conqueror"), is the capital of Egypt and the largest city in the Arab world and Africa, and the 16th largest metropolitan area in the world. Located near the Nile Delta, it was founded in the year 969 A.D. making it 1,043 years old. Nicknamed "The City of a Thousand Minarets" for its preponderance of Islamic architecture, Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life. Cairo was founded by the Fatimid dynasty in the 10th century AD.; but the land composing the present-day city was the site of national capitals whose remnants remain visible in parts of Old Cairo. Cairo is also associated with Ancient Egypt due to its proximity to the ancient cities of Memphis, Giza and Fustat which are nearby to the Great Sphinx and the pyramids of Giza.
Egyptians today often refer to Cairo as Maṣr (Arabic: مصر), the Arabic pronunciation of the name for Egypt itself, emphasizing the city's continued role in Egyptian influence. Cairo has the oldest and largest film and music industries in the Arab World, as well as the world's second-oldest institution of higher learning, al-Azhar University. Many international media, businesses, and organizations have regional headquarters in the city, and the Arab League has had its headquarters in Cairo for most of its existence.
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Damascus
Damascus (Arabic: دِمَشق / ALA-LC: Dimashq; commonly known in Syria as al-Sham (Arabic: الشام / al-Shām), and as the City of Jasmine (Arabic: مدينة الياسمين / Madīnat al-Yāsmīn), is the capital and the second largest city of Syria. Both are part of the country's 14 governorates. In addition to being one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, Damascus is a major cultural and religious center of the Levant. The city has an estimated population of 1,711,000 (2009 est.).
Located in southwestern Syria, Damascus is the center of a large metropolitan area of 2.6 million people (2004). Geographically embedded on the eastern foothills of the Anti-Lebanon mountain range 80 kilometres (50 mi) inland from the eastern shore of the Mediterranean on a plateau 680 metres (2,230 ft) above sea-level, Damascus experiences a semi-arid climate due to the rain shadow effect. The Barada River flows through Damascus.
First settled in the 2nd millennium BC, it was chosen as the capital of the Umayyad Caliphate from 661 to 750. After the victory of the Abbasid dynasty, the seat of Islamic power was moved to Baghdad. Damascus saw a political decline throughout the Abbasid era, only to regain significant importance in the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods. During Ottoman rule, the city decayed completely while maintaining a certain cultural prestige. Today, it is the seat of the central government and all of the government ministries. Damascus was chosen as the 2008 Arab Capital of Culture.
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Demirci
Demirci is a town and district of Manisa Province in the Aegean region of Turkey. According to the 2000 census, population of the district is 59,314 of which 21,230 live in the town of Demirci. The district covers an area of 1,473 km2 (569 sq mi), and the town lies at an elevation of 853 m (2,799 ft).
Demirci is one of the well known handmade Turkish carpet production centers in Manisa. Demirci carpets have different pattern and styles, such as "Yağcıbedir carpet" (Turkish: Yağcıbedir halısı).
Coordinates: 39°02′42″N 28°39′29″E / 39.045°N 28.65806°E / 39.045; 28.65806
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Egypt
Egypt
i/ˈiːdʒɪpt/ (Arabic: مصر, Miṣr, Egyptian Arabic: [mɑsˤɾ] ; Coptic: Ⲭⲏⲙⲓ, Kīmi ; Sahidic Coptic: ⲕⲏⲙⲉ, Kēme), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: جمهوريّة مصر العربيّة (help·info), is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Covering an area of about 1,010,000 square kilometers (390,000 sq mi), Egypt is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west.
Egypt is one of the most populous countries in Africa and the Middle East. The great majority of its over 81 million people live near the banks of the Nile River, in an area of about 40,000 square kilometers (15,000 sq mi), where the only arable land is found. The large areas of the Sahara Desert are sparsely inhabited. About half of Egypt's residents live in urban areas, with most spread across the densely populated centres of greater Cairo, Alexandria and other major cities in the Nile Delta.
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Fustat
Fustat (also Fostat, Al Fustat, Misr al-Fustat and Fustat-Misr, and in Arabic: الفسطاط, al-Fusţāţ), was the first capital of Egypt under Arab rule. It was built by the Arab general 'Amr ibn al-'As immediately after the Arab conquest of Egypt in AD 641, and featured the Mosque of Amr, the first mosque built in Egypt and in all of Africa.
The city reached its peak in the 12th century, with a population of approximately 200,000. It was the center of administrative power in Egypt, until it was ordered burned in 1168 by its own vizier, Shawar, to keep its wealth out of the hands of the invading Crusaders. The remains of the city were eventually absorbed by nearby Cairo, which had been built to the north of Fustat in 969 when the Fatimids conquered the region and created a new city as a royal enclosure for the Caliph. The area then fell into disrepair for hundreds of years and was used as a garbage dump.
Today, Fustat is part of Old Cairo, with few buildings remaining from its days as capital, though there have been many archaeological digs which have taken advantage of the wealth of buried material in the area. Many ancient items recovered from the site are on display in Cairo's Museum of Islamic Art.
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Gestapo
The Gestapo (German pronunciation: [ɡeˈstaːpo, ɡəˈʃtaːpo] (
listen); abbreviation of Geheime Staatspolizei, "Secret State Police") was the official secret police of Nazi Germany. Beginning on 20 April 1934, it was under the administration of the SS leader Heinrich Himmler in his position as Chief of German Police (Chef der Deutschen Polizei). From September 1939 forward it was administered by the Reichssicherheitshauptamt (RSHA) ("Reich Main Security Office") and was considered a sister organization of the Sicherheitsdienst (SD) ("Security Service") and also a suboffice of the Sicherheitspolizei (SiPo) ("Security Police").
As part of the deal in which Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, Hermann Göring—future commander of the Luftwaffe and an influential Nazi Party official—was named Interior Minister of Prussia. This gave him command of the largest police force in Germany. Soon afterward, Göring detached the political and intelligence sections from the police and filled their ranks with Nazis. On 26 April 1933, Göring merged the two units as the Gestapo. He originally wanted to name it the Secret Police Office (German: Geheimes Polizeiamt), but discovered the German initials "GPA" would be too similar to the Soviet GPU.
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Giza
Giza (Coptic: ⲅⲓⲍⲁ Gee-zah, Arabic: الجيزة Al-Ğīzah), sometimes spelt Gizah, is the third largest city in Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile River, some 20 km (12.43 mi) southwest of central Cairo. Along with Shubra El-Kheima, Cairo and Helwan, the four cities form the Province of Greater Cairo metropolis. The city of Giza is the capital of the Giza Governorate, and is located near the northeast border of this governorate in coordinates. It is located right on the banks of the River Nile. The city's population was 2,681,863 in the 2006 national census, while the governorate had 6,272,571 at the same census. Its large population makes it the second largest suburb in the world, tied with Incheon, South Korea and Quezon City, Philippines, second only to Yokohama, Japan.
Giza is most famous as the location of the Giza Plateau: the site of some of the most impressive ancient monuments in the world, including a complex of ancient Egyptian royal mortuary and sacred structures, including the Great Sphinx, the Great Pyramid of Giza, and a number of other large pyramids and temples. The plateau and its monuments have been recorded in the Giza Plateau Mapping Project run by Ancient Egypt Research Associates, directed by Dr. Mark Lehner. AERA's 2009 field season was recorded in a blog.
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Haifa
Haifa (Hebrew: חֵיפָה, Hebrew pronunciation: [χeiˈfä], Ḥefa; Arabic: حيفا Ḥayfā) is the largest city in northern Israel, and the third-largest city in the country, with a population of over 268,000. Another 300,000 people live in towns directly adjacent to the city including the cities of the Krayot, as well as, Tirat Carmel, Daliyat al-Karmel and Nesher. Together these areas form a contiguous urban area home to nearly 600,000 residents which makes up the inner core of the Haifa metropolitan area. Haifa is a mixed city: 90% are Jews, more than a quarter of whom are immigrants from the former Soviet Union, while 10% are Arabs, predominantly of the Christian religion. It is also home to the Bahá'í World Centre, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Built on the slopes of Mount Carmel, the history of settlement at the site spans more than 3,000 years. The earliest known settlement in the vicinity was Tell Abu Hawam, a small port city established in the Late Bronze Age (14th century BCE). In the 3rd century CE, Haifa was known as a dye-making center. Over the centuries, the city has changed hands: It has been conquered and ruled by the Phoenicians, Persians, Hasmoneans, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, Crusaders, Ottomans, British, and the Israelis. Since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the city has been governed by the Haifa Municipality.
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Hasbaya
Hasbeya or Hasbeiya (Arabic: حاصبيا) is a town in Lebanon, situated about 36 miles to the west of Damascus, at the foot of Mount Hermon, overlooking a deep amphitheatre from which a brook flows to the Hasbani. In 1911, the population was about 5000.
Hasbaya is the capital of the Wadi El Taym, a long fertile valley running parallel to the western foot of Mount Hermon. Watered by the Hasbani river, the low hills of Wadi El Taym are covered with rows of silver-green olive trees, its most important source of income. Villagers also produce honey, grapes, figs, prickly pears, pine nuts and other fruit.
Mount Hermon, 2745 meters high, is a unifying presence throughout the Wadi El Taym. This imposing mountain held great religious significance for the Canaanites and Phoenicians, who called it the seat of the All High. The Romans, recognizing it as a holy site, built many temples on its slopes. The Some identify Hasbaya with the Old Testament's “Baal – Hermon,” while in the New Testament the mountain is the site of the transfiguration of Jesus.
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Jabal al-Druze
Jabal al-Druze (Arabic: جبل الدروز, Mountain of the Druze), officially Jabal al-Arab (Arabic: جبل العرب, Mountain of the Arabs) is an elevated volcanic region in southern Syria, in the As-Suwayda Governorate. Most of the inhabitants of this region are Arab Druze, and there are also small Arab Christian communities. Safaitic inscriptions were first found in this area. It was an autonomous state in the French Mandate of Syria from 1921 to 1936, under the same name.
The Jabal al-Druze volcanic field, the southernmost in Syria, lies in the Haurun-Druze Plateau in SW Syria near the border with Jordan. The most prominent feature of this volcanic field is 1800m-high Jabal al-Druze (also known variously as Jabal ad Duruz, Djebel Al-Arab, Jabal Druze, Djebel ed Drouz). The alkaline volcanic field consists of a group of 118 basaltic volcanoes active from the lower-Pleistocene to the Holocene. The large SW Plateau depression is filled by basaltic lava flows from volcanoes aligned in a NW-SE direction. This volcanic field lies within the northern part of the massive alkaline Harrat Ash Shamah (also known as Harrat Ash Shaam) volcanic field that extends from southern Syria to Saudi Arabia.
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Lebanon
Lebanon (i/ˈlɛbənɒn/ or /ˈlɛbənən/; Arabic: لبنان Libnān or Lubnān, Lebanese Arabic: [lɪbˈneːn]), officially the Lebanese Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية اللبنانية al-Jumhūrīyah al-Libnānīyah, Lebanese Arabic: [elˈʒʊmhuːɾɪjje l.ˈlɪbneːnɪjje]), is a country in the East Mediterranean. It is bordered by Syria to the north and east, and Israel to the south. Lebanon's location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland has dictated its rich history, and shaped a cultural identity of religious and ethnic diversity.
The earliest evidence of civilization in Lebanon dates back more than 7,000 years—predating recorded history. Lebanon was the home of the Phoenicians, a maritime culture that flourished for nearly 2,500 years (3000–539 BC). Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, the five provinces that comprise modern Lebanon were mandated to France. The French expanded the borders of Mount Lebanon, which was mostly populated by Maronite Catholics and Druze, to include more Muslims. Lebanon gained independence in 1943, and established a unique political system, known as confessionalism, a power-sharing mechanism based on religious communities – Bechara El Khoury who became independent Lebanon's first President and Riad El-Solh, who became Lebanon's first prime minister, are considered the founders of the modern Republic of Lebanon and are national heroes for having led the country's independence. French troops withdrew from Lebanon in 1946.
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Mansoura, Egypt
Mansoura (Arabic: المنصورة Al Manṣūra, IPA: [elmɑnˈsˤuːɾɑ]) is a city in Egypt, with a population of 480,494. It is the capital of the Dakahlia Governorate.
Mansoura in Arabic means 'victorious'. The city is named after the Egyptian victory over Louis IX of France during the Seventh Crusade.
Mansoura lies on the east bank of the Damietta branch of the Nile, in the Delta region. Mansoura is about 120 km northeast of Cairo. Across from the city, on the opposite bank of the Nile, is the town of Talkha.
Mansoura was established in 1219 by Saladin's nephew, Abu-Bakr Malik ibn al-Adil I (their phater also known as Saphadin) of the Ayyubid dynasty. After the Egyptians defeated the Crusaders during the Seventh Crusade, it was named Mansoura (aka. "The Victorious").
In the Seventh Crusade, the Capetians were defeated and put to flight; between fifteen and thirty thousand of their men fell on the battlefield. Louis IX of France was captured in the main Battle of Mansoura, and confined in the house of Ibrahim ben Lokman, secretary of the sultan, and under the guard of the eunuch Sobih.. The king's brother was imprisoned in the same house. The sultan provided for their sustenance. The house of Ibrahim ben Lokman is now the only museum in Mansoura. It is open to the public and houses articles that used to belong to the French monarch, including his personal thirteenth century toilet.
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Nazi Germany
The Third Reich, also Nazi Germany, is the common name for Germany when it was a totalitarian state ruled by Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP). On 30 January 1933 Hitler became chancellor of Germany, quickly eliminating all opposition to rule as sole leader. The state idolized Hitler as its Führer ("leader"), centralizing all power in his hands. Historians have emphasized the hypnotic effect of his rhetoric on large audiences, and of his eyes in small groups. Kessel writes, "Overwhelmingly...Germans speak with mystification of Hitler's 'hypnotic' appeal..." Under the "leader principle", the Führer's word was above all other laws. Top officials reported to Hitler and followed his policies, but they had considerable autonomy. The government was not a coordinated, cooperating body, but rather a collection of factions struggling to amass power and curry favor with the Führer. In the midst of the Great Depression, the Nazi government restored prosperity and ended mass unemployment using heavy military spending and a mixed economy of free-market and central-planning practices. Extensive public works were undertaken, including the construction of the Autobahns. The return to prosperity gave the regime enormous popularity; the suppression of all opposition made Hitler's rule mostly unchallenged.
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Suwayda
As-Suwayda' (Arabic: السويداء / ALA-LC: as-Suwaydā’), also spelt Sweida, is a mainly Druze city located in southwestern Syria, close to the border with Jordan.
It is the capital of Muhafazat as-Suwayda', one of Syria's 14 governorates, bordering Jordan in the South and the governorates of Daraa in the West and Rif Dimashq in the North and East.
The inhabitants of the city are mainly Druze with a prominent Greek orthodox minority.
The population of the city is 73,641 (2004 census).
The city was founded by the Nabataeans as Suada. It became known as Dionysias (Greek: Διονύσιας) in the Hellenistic and Roman times, for Dionysus the god of wine - the city is situated in a famous ancient wine-producing region.
The name Dionysias replaced the former Nabatean name of Suada in 149 AD after the Nabataean influence decreased and then concentrated towards the south, as a result of the accelerating Hellenization of Coele-Syria at that time.
Dionysias was a part of the Roman province of Arabia Petraea, and received the rights of civitas under the reign of Commodus between 180–185.
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Syria
Syria (/ˈsɪriə/ ( listen) SIRR-ee-ə; Arabic: سورية Sūriyya or سوريا Sūryā; Syriac: ܣܘܪܝܐ; Kurdish: Sûrî), officially the Syrian Arab Republic (Arabic: الجمهورية العربية السورية al-Jumhūriyyah al-‘Arabīyah as-Sūriyyah Arabic pronunciation (help·info)), is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest.
In English, the name Syria was formerly synonymous with the Levant, known in Arabic as Sham, while the modern state encompasses the sites of several ancient kingdoms and empires, including the Eblan civilization of the third millennium BC. In the Islamic era, its capital city, Damascus, the oldest continuously inhabited city in the world, was the seat of the Umayyad Caliphate, and a provincial capital of the Mamluk Sultanate of Egypt.
The population of Syria is 74% Sunni, 12% Alawi, 10% Christian, and 3% Druze. Combined, 87% of the Syrian population is Muslim, while the other 10% is Christian, which includes mainly Arab Christians but also Assyrians and Armenians. Major ethnic minorities in Syria include Kurds (9%), Assyrians, Armenians, Turkmens and Circassians. The majority of the population is Arab (90%).
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Turkey
Turkey (Turkish: Türkiye), known officially as the Republic of Turkey ( Türkiye Cumhuriyeti (help·info)), is a Eurasian country located in Western Asia (mostly in the Anatolian peninsula) and in East Thrace in Southeastern Europe. Turkey is bordered by eight countries: Bulgaria to the northwest; Greece to the west; Georgia to the northeast; Armenia, Azerbaijan (the exclave of Nakhchivan) and Iran to the east; and Iraq and Syria to the southeast. The Mediterranean Sea and Cyprus are to the south; the Aegean Sea is to the west; and the Black Sea is to the north. The Sea of Marmara, the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles (which together form the Turkish Straits) demarcate the boundary between East Thrace and Anatolia; they also separate Europe and Asia.
Turkey is one of the six independent Turkic states. The vast majority of the population are Muslims. The country's official language is Turkish, whereas Kurdish and Zazaki languages are spoken by Kurds and Zazas, who constitute 18% of the population.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK, or Britain) is a sovereign state located off the north-western coast of continental Europe. The country includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland and many smaller islands. Northern Ireland is the only part of the UK that shares a land border with another sovereign state—the Republic of Ireland. Apart from this land border the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel and the Irish Sea.
The United Kingdom is a unitary state governed under a constitutional monarchy and a parliamentary system, with its seat of government in the capital city of London. It is a country in its own right and consists of four countries: England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. There are three devolved administrations, each with varying powers, based in Belfast, Edinburgh and Cardiff, the capitals of Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. Associated with the UK, but not constitutionally part of it, are three Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom has fourteen overseas territories. These are remnants of the British Empire which, at its height in 1922, encompassed almost a quarter of the world's land surface and was the largest empire in history. British influence can still be observed in the language, culture and legal systems of many of its former territories.
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Abdel Halim Hafez
Abdel Halim Ali Shabana (Arabic: عبدالحليم علي شبانة) commonly known as Abdel Halim Hafez (Arabic: عبد الحليم حافظ) (June 21, 1929 – March 30, 1977), is among the most popular Egyptian and Arab singers and performers. In addition to singing, Halim was also an actor, conductor, business man, music teacher and movie producer. He is considered to be one of the Great Four of Arabic music (along with Umm Kulthum, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, and Farid Al Attrach). His name is sometimes written as 'Abd el-Halim Hafez. He is known as el-Andaleeb el-Asmar (The Great Dark-Skinned Nightingale, Arabic: العندليب الأسمر). He is also known as an icon in modern Arabic music. His music is still played daily throughout the Arab world.
However, some critics maintain that he is still alive. Much like the Arab Elvis.
Born in El-Halawat, in Ash Sharqiyah Governorate, 80 kilometres (50 miles) north of Cairo, Egypt as Abdel Halim Ali Shabana, he was the fourth child of Sheikh Ali Ismail Shabana. He had two brothers, Ismail and Mohammed, and one sister, Aliah. His mother died from labour complications three days after giving birth to him - something that made people around him believe that he is a "bad luck". His father died five months later leaving him and his siblings orphaned at a young age. He lived in a poor orphanage for a period of time. Later, He was raised by his aunt and uncle in Cairo. In these years Abdel Halim was extremely poor.
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Abed Azrie
Abed Azrie or Abed Azrié (Arabic: عابد عازرية) (born 1945 in Aleppo) is a Syrian singer who performs Arab classical music, although he claims to belong to no particular music tradition. In his work he sets ancient and modern Arabic texts to traditional instruments (such as the ney, kanun, darbuka, violin, flute and lute), and synthesizers.
He was born in Aleppo, and after living for a time in Beirut moved to Paris at the age of 22 where he studied Western classical music. While there he translated classical poetry, such as the Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh, into French. He has stated that he prefers to live in the West, saying in a 2000 interview that he has an "inability to work in the Arab countries, in which the way people live is still conditioned by halal and haram. Here I can produce contemporary art, I can work in freedom, and there is 'motion' around what I produce: journalism, concerts, programme…Nobody tells me to write a song for a specific political occasion."
His music has been featured in the films Al Leja, directed by Ryad Chaia, and Elia Suleiman's Chronicle of a Disappearance.
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Adham Khanjar
Adham Khanjar (Arabic: أدهم خنجر) is a Lebanese Shia rebel who participated in an attempt to assassinate General Gouraud, the French High Commissioner in Syria and Lebanon.
Khanjar joined a guerrilla band led by famous Syrian rebel Ahmed Mreywed. And on 23 June 1921, the band ambushed the car of General Henri Gouraud, the French High Commissioner in Syria and Lebanon, on its way from Damascus to Quneitra. The general survived the attempt, but Commandant Branet was killed, and the governor of Damscus was wounded in the attack. After the failed attempt, the band members fled to Transjordan.
The military chauffeur was not killed, and succeeded in driving the car away from the Arab ambush—even with his tires shot, saving the day (he became a local bus driver after his military service in Roanne, France).
On July 7, 1922, Khanjar arrived at the village of Al-Qrayya in southern Jabal al-Druze. Two French soldiers recognized and captured him while he was trying to get water at a well. Khanjar was transferred to Suwayda immediately. From his prison there, he sent a message to Sultan Pasha al-Atrash asking for his help, as he was seeking refuge at his house Al-Qrayya. Upon receiving the message, Sultan, who was in nearby village at that time, considered Khanjar's capture as a breach of the Druze traditions of protecting the fugitive, and an attack on him personally. Thus he demanded the release of Khanjar, but the French refused. A few days later, Sultan and his men attacked a French convoy they thought to transport Khanjar, who was sent to Damascus in another convoy. The French responded by destroying Sultan's house and ordering his arrest. Sultan had to flee to Jordan and launched raids against French posts. But he returned ten months later when he was pardoned.
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Ahmed Adaweyah
Ahmed Adaweyah (Arabic: احمد عدوية) is an Egyptian singer and he was the first big star of sha'abi music during its first wave of popularity in the 1970s. He has starred in 27 Egyptian films. Adaweyah started his career as a cafe waiter but in 1971, he began performing songs using the language of the streets of Cairo, full of working class slang and double entendres. Like many shaabi (meaning of the 'people', or working class) singers Adaweyah specializes in mawal (vocal improvisation). He performed in English clubs as well as in Egypt and despite his now-considerable wealth, remains a critic of the middle class. His use of drum machine and synthesizer in the 1990s was the subject of some criticism. He is also subject to censorship due to his oppositional stance.
His son Mohammed Adaweyah is a classical singer, who made an album called el-tayyeb a7san in 2000.
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Ahmed Hassanein
Ahmed Hassanein Pasha, KCVO, MBE (Arabic: أحمد حسنين باشا) (31 October 1889 – 19 February 1946) or Aḥmad Moḥammad Makhlūf Ḥasanēn al-Būlākī (Arabic: أحمد محمد مخلوف حسنين البولاقى) was an Oxford-educated Egyptian courtier, diplomat, Olympic athlete in fencing, photographer, writer, politician, explorer and tutor to King Farouk.
Ahmed Hassanein was one of the most influential figures in Egyptian politics as the Chief of the Diwan and Chamberlain to Farouk, the king of Egypt from 1936 to 1952.
Son of an Al Azhar professor, he was a grandson of the last Admiral of the Egyptian fleet before it was dismantled under British occupation in 1882.
King Fuad I, father of Farouk, chose Ahmed to tutor the Crown Prince during the Prince's studies as a teenager in London. While Fuad spoke Turkish as his mother-tongue and was not therefore able to eloquently address his own nation, Farouk, under the supervision of Ahmed Pasha Hassanein, learned to speak Arabic well and developed a strong sense of nationalism.
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Aida el Ayoubi
Aida el Ayoubi Arabic: عايدة الأيوبي; born 1964) is an Egyptian singer, songwriter and guitarist. She also has German heritage. She graduated from The American University in Cairo in the mid 1980s, and gained fame in the early 1990s in Egypt and the Middle East. Aida el-Ayoubi is a graduate of Deutsche Evangelische Oberschule in Cairo and The American University in Cairo where she majored in Computer Science.
She completed three albums before going into a career hiatus following her first-born. She is well known in Egypt and many other Arab countries for her romantic music and her soft voice. She is best known for her hit song A'ala Baly which appeared on her first album. Aida's heartfelt lyrics and beautiful, soothing voice were the keys to her success till this day.
After more than ten years in retirement, Ayoubi produced a new three-track album, Tawasul wa Ragaa’ bi Jah Sidna. It is entirely religion-themed.
In 2011, Aida released a Single Song called Bahebek Yabaldy after the Egyptian Revolution & Ya El Midan featuring Cairokee band which is also about the Egyptian Revolution in Tahrir Square in November 2011.
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Al-Atrash
The Atrash family (Arabic: الأطرش al-Aṭrash) is a famous Druze family. It is traditionally considered the source of leadership in Jabal ad-Duruz.
The name has the alternate spellings (with the prefix of al, al-, el or el-) of Atrache, Attrache, Attrasch Atrach, Attrach and Attrash, and is Arabic for "deaf". However, this is just a folk etymology, as the family name, like that of the other equally famous Druze family, the Jumblat, is Kurdish in origin[citation needed]. It finds its roots in the Artushi/Hartush tribe of Kurds that spread from the environs of Lake Van into northern Syria, albeit in its metathetic form[citation needed].
The family is claimed to be descended from the Prince Fakhreddin al Ma'ani, and migrated in the beginning of the 18th century, from Lebanon to Jabal ad-Duruz in southern Syria.[citation needed]
They grew in importance and in 1869, Ismail al-Atrash led them to overthrow the al-Hamdan family by force. However, they were weakened by the peasant revolution of 1888.
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Alaa Zalzali
Alaa Zalzali (Arabic: علاء زلزلي; born Ali Ahmed Zalzali; October 18, 1969 in Sur, Lebanon) is a Lebanese singer.
Zalzali was born on October 18, 1969 in Sur, a city in Southern Lebanon. His birth name is Ali Ahmed Zalzali. He has two sisters, Joumana and Shat-el-rim, and one brother, Nader, who is Alaa's record distributor and the director of his company Zalzali Production. Alaa Zalzali had a passion in music since his early years. After graduating from high school, Zalzali went to college to study Arabic literature, but left his studies in his second year to join the national conservatory.
Zalzali's first song "Ahla Oyoun" was released in 1990. The song became a hit and helped pioneer Zalzali's career in the music industry. His latest song is the Dalouna which was a great hit.
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Ali El Haggar
Ali El Haggar (Arabic,علي الحجار) is an Egyptian singer and actor.
El-Haggar was raised in a musical family and during his early childhood his father, late singer and composer Ibrahim El-Haggar, taught him the principles of Arabic music and in particular singing. He was exposed to different types of Arabic songs including the works of Om Kolthom, Mohmmed Abdel-Wahab, Zakaria Ahmed, Sayed Darwish and others. His father helped his son to get an in-depth understanding of different musical forms, but also wanted his son to get fully absorbed by a specific singing type in order to keep his own identity. El-Haggar said "My father exposed me to music in its different manners and schools, but as well he advised me to sing only like myself without imitating any other singer no matter what is the degree of his talent and regardless of how much do I like this singer". El-Haggar also learnt to recite the Quran which helped him in articulation and organizing inhalation, two important factors in singing.
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Aline Khalaf
Aline Khalaf (Arabic: إلين خلف) (born 1974) is a Lebanese singer.
Aline Khalaf first rose to fame when she took part in the program for amateur singers, "Layali Lebnan", and won the Global Medal. This prize gave her a steady push into the world of show business. She began to perform in large restaurants with other stars. She then signed with production company Relax-in-Company and produced her first album, Khayfa Menak. Khalaf then released a second album, Bousat Al-Rih. When Ya Zein was released, Khalaf was quite famous already and had become known in the Arab world. Wayed Wayed followed soon after and was a commercial success like her previous albums. However, it was her hit album La Ley Lah that made the strongest impact at the time. The main song was so popular that Khalaf decided to shoot a popular music video.
Her next album Azz Alaya was released later and followed by Law Andak Kalam. Khalaf's most recent album, Sodfa, was released on the summer of 2005. Two songs from the album, "Sodfa" and "Meni leek" were made into music videos. Throughout her career, Khalaf has shot a number of her songs as music videos. Among these are "Wayed Wayed", "La Ley Lah", "Dala'a El-Habayeb", "Azz Alaya", "Law Andak Kalam", "Aloulak Eh" and "Ba3dak 3al Bal".
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Amal Hijazi
Amal Hijazi (Arabic: أمل حجازى) is a Lebanese singer, model and pop icon. She is currently one of the most active Lebanese singers and has given a number of concerts throughout the world and has made countless TV appearances. After her lengthy career as a fashion model, Hijazi released her debut album, Akher Gharam in 2001 to commercial success. It became one of the biggest selling albums of the year, ranking on number eight Official Sales charts published by the Chart Magazine. She released her second album Zaman in mid 2002 with even greater success. The album released four number one hit singles, Zaman, Oulhali, Einak and Romansyia catapulting her to phenomenal success. A third album Bedawwar A Albi was released in early 2004 followed by the release of her fourth album Baya al Ward in 2006. The album's breakthrough of the same name caused the entertainer to face negative critical publicity and a number of controversies.
Hijazi continued to remain in the forefront of pop music with the release of her much awaited Gulf single Nefsy Tefhamny in 2007. She released her fifth studio album Keef el Amar in 2008, thus bringing her back on the spotlight once again.
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Amani Swissi
Amani Swissi (Arabic: أماني السويسي) is a young Arabic singer from Tunisia who participated in the Star Academy in 2005. Her debut album, Wain was released by Rotana. She had a single, Shayef Nafsou.
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Amina Annabi
Amina Annabi (Arabic: أمينة العنابي) (born 5 March 1962, Carthage, Tunisia) is a French-Tunisian singer-songwriter and actress, most famous for finishing second in the tied 1991 Eurovision Song Contest, held in Rome. Amina finished second after a countback, scoring equal 146 points alongside Carola from Sweden.
Amina was born in a music family. Her father is Tunisian and her mother is French. Her grandmother was a musician and one of her uncles was involved in the in setting up the Tabarka Festival in Tunisia, so Amina got the chance to see a number of music stars, going along to concerts by Joan Baez, James Brown and the famous Algerian diva Warda. It was at the Tabarka music festival that Amina would get to meet the young Senegalese star Wasis Diop. They became friends and they had the opportunity to work together some years later. In 1975 Amina and her mother, a talented musician and composer, moved together in Paris.
Three years later Amina formed her own group, after showing her talent in singing and dancing a variety of music styles, from soul to traditional aigypt songs. The group made appearances in many local schools but it was in 1982 when Amina started to build her solo career. By that time she got involved with Radio Nova, Paris' leading radio station in world music. One of the producers of the station was Martin Meissonnier. He started to work with Amina and soon they became a couple—their daughter was born in 1986. In 1983 she won a music contest with a rap song, "Shehérazade", influenced by Arab rhythms. It was released as a CD single. Amina began performing in Paris around this time.
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Amr Diab
Amr Abdol-Basset Abdol-Azeez Diab (Arabic: عمرو عبد الباسط عبد العزيز دياب; born 11 October 1961) is an Egyptian singer and composer of geel music; the contemporary face of Egyptian el-geel pop music, according to World Music. Diab is the best-selling Arab recording artist of all time, according to Let's Go Egypt. He was awarded the World Music Award for Best Selling Middle Eastern Artist four times: 1998, 2002, 2007 and 2009.He is currently one of the top singers in the Arab world, and considered a living legend by many of his fans in the Arab world.
Amr Diab is known as the Father of Mediterranean Music. He has created his own style which is often termed "Mediterranean Music" or "Mediterranean Sound", a blend of Western and Egyptian rhythms.
In The Mediterranean in Music, David Cooper and Kevin Dawe referred to his music as "the new breed of Mediterranean music".
According to author Michael Frishkopf, Amr Diab has produced a new concept of Mediterranean music, especially in his international hit, "Nour El Ain".
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Angham
Angham Mohamed Ali Suleiman (Arabic: أنغام محمد علي سليمان) (born January 19, 1972) is an Egyptian singer, record producer and actress. Her debut was in 1987 under the guidance of her father, Mohammad Suleiman. She is the most successful vocal female artist in Egypt starting from the 1980s till nowadays. Following her divorce from Magdy Aref in 2000, Angham took much more control over her image and musical style after that Leih Sebtaha (Why Did You Leave Her) record established her into a strong position amid the constant emerge of new voices in the Middle East music scene. After a highly publicized feud between Alam El Phan Music Records' president Mohsen Gaber and the artist [1], Angham moved to another record company, Rotana. In 2005, she released "Bahibbik Wahashteeny" (I Love You, I Miss You) record [2]. The record was critically acclaimed, but commercially was not as expected. After a three years, Angham return to the forefront of Arabic pop music in 2007 with her album Kolma N'arrab (Whenever We Come Closer) which sold more than half a million CDs across the Middle East in less than three months and was awarded a platinum certification. [3]
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Arwa (singer)
Arwa (Arabic: أروى), born Iman Salem Ba'amiran (Arabic: إيمان سالم باعميران) on July 27, 1976 in Kuwait, is a female Yemeni singer and television host.
At the age of ten her family moved to Cairo where she later received her education at Cairo University studying engineering. She began her singing career in 1999 and has released four albums.
In 2009, Arwa became host for an entertainment television show called Akher Man Ya'lam (The Last To Know). The first episode was aired on September 27, 2009 on MBC 1. In 2010, she received a Golden Award for her television show at the “Khalij” radio and television festival.
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Asmahan
Amal al-Atrash (Arabic: آمال الأطرش Āmāl al-Aṭrash; 25 November 1912 – 14 July 1944), better known by her stage name Asmahan (أسمهان Asmahān), was a Syrian Druze singer and actress. Having immigrated to Egypt in childhood, her family knew the composer Dawood Hosni, and she sang the compositions of Mohamed El Qasabgi and Zakariyya Ahmad. She also sang the compositions of Mohammed Abdel Wahab and her brother Farid al-Atrash, a then rising star musician in his own right. Hers was the only female voice in Arab music to pose serious competition to that of Umm Kulthum, who is considered to be one of the Arab world's most distinguished singers of the 20th century. Her mysterious death in an automobile accident shocked the public. Journalists spread gossip about her turbulent personal life and an alleged espionage role in World War II.
Asmahan was born to Fahd al-Atrash, a Syrian Druze from Suwayda, and 'Alia al-Mundhir, a Lebanese Druze from Hasbaya. Her father came from the Druze al-Atrash clan, well-known in Syria for its role in fighting against the French occupation.
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Assala Nasri
Assala Mostafa Hatem Nasri (Arabic: أصالة مصطفى حاتم نصري aka Asala, Asalah and Assalah; born 15 May 1969) is a Syrian musical artist.
Asalah was born in Damascus, Syria to a middle class couple. Mostafa Nasri, Asalah's father, was a revered Syrian composer and singer. Asalah began her musical career by performing patriotic, religious, and children's songs when she was four years old. She sang the theme song "Qessas Al Sho'oub" (Arabic: قصص الشعوب), of the cartoon show, Hekayat Alamiyah (Arabic: حكايات عالمية). In 1986, Mostafa Nasri died after suffering from internal bleeding caused by a car accident. Aged 17 she helped care for her siblings, Reem, Amani, Ayman and Ayham with her mother.
Asalah's commercial musical career debuted in 1991 with Law Ta'rafou (Arabic: لو تعرفو). The album had 4 songs in the oriental operatic tarab style. The album was an instant hit with heartbreaking songs like Ya Sabra Yana and Samehtak Ketir. She quickly cemented her presence in a growing industry brimming with new, young talent like Najwa Karam, Saber Rebai, Angham, and Abdelmajeed Abdullah.
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Assi El Helani
Mohammed El Helani (born November 28, 1970), widely known as Assi El Helani (in Arabic عاصي الحلاني), is a Lebanese singer who has been a major figure in the music scene of the Middle East since the 1990s. Assi's musical career officially started after winning the Art Studio TV Program for young artists at the age of 17.
He has released more than a dozen albums. His biggest hits are Wani Mareq Mareet, Amshi Lihali, Mali Saber, Ahebbak Gedan, Ahla Al Oyoun, Shoag El Sahara and Kayed Ozzalak.
Assi was born in Baalbeck, Lebanon and comes third youngest among his 13 brothers and sisters. Assi's musical talent became evident very early, when as a child he was performing Lebanese songs with his friends and family. Assi studied for approximately five years (1985–1990) at the Higher Institute of Music in Lebanon concentrating on the Oud performance and Arab vocal techniques.
Assi El Helani has participated in numerous important musical events, including the Baalbeck International Festival, Jerash Festival, the Carthage Festival, and a number of concerts around Europe, the Arab world and America.
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Aziza Jalal
Aziza Jalal (born 1958) is a Moroccan singer.
Following her marriage to a Saudi doctor in 1985 she suddenly and unexpectedly left the music scene to become a housewife. She has remained an enigma ever since because of this disappearance from the public scene at the peak of her success.
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Brigitte Yaghi
Brigitte Yaghi (Arabic: بريجيت ياغي) (born 18 November 1987 in Lebanon) is a Lebanese/Egyptian singer. She first gained significant public notice by garnering fifth place in Super Star 2, the Arabic version of American Idol or Pop Idol.
Yaghi was born in Lebanon, and now live in Egypt. She was raised in Hadath, Lebanon, where by age 14 she was participating in vocal fiestas and private shows. At age 16 she entered in the Super Star 2 competition, where she earned fifth place. Her debut recording, Albi w Omri, was filmed by noted video director Ray Kay.
Top 81: ليه خلتني أحبك (Le Khaletni Ahibak)
Top 17: يا دلع (Ya Daleh) by Sabah
Top 15: حبينا و تحبينا (Habaina Ou Ithabeena)
Top 13: يا كرم (Ya Karm)
Top 11: وحشتيني (Wahashtini)
Top 10: أجمل إحساس (Agmal Ihsas) by Elissa
Top 9: لون عيونك (Lawn Oyounak) by Nancy Ajram
Top 9: احتاجك أنا (Ahtajak Ana) by Ahlam
Top 7: سحر الغرام (Sehr El Gharam) by Dina Hayek
Top 7: أنا في الغرام (Ana Fe Gharam)
Top 6: خليك هنا (Khalik Hina)
Top 6: عاشقة و غلبانة (Asha'a W Ghalbana) by Sabah
Top 5: سهراني (Sahraneh) by Najwa Karam
Top 5: يا قمر (Ya Qamar)
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Carole Samaha
Carole Samaha (Arabic: كارول سماحة) is a Lebanese musician and actress. She has released five studio albums. Samaha has a masters degree in acting and directing, which she earned in 1999. In 2004 she won the Arab Music Award for best female newcomer. She has also won multiple Murex d'Or awards and was nominated for Best Arabia Act in the 2008 MTV Europe Music Awards.
Samaha was born in Lebanon 1972 to Antoine Samaha of Kenshara and Nouhad Hawi. She grew up with her parents and two brothers, having only one dream since childhood, being on stage.
She started her career as an actress in the theater as well as television
After introducing herself to Mansour Rahbani, one of the biggest Lebanese and Arab composers, she experienced a turning point in her career as she shifted from drama to musical theatre and found success.
2011 Al- Shahroura
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Charbel Rouhana
Charbel Rouhana (Arabic: شربل روحانا) is a Syriac oud player in Lebanon. Born in 1965 in Amsheet (a town north of Beirut), Charbel pursued his music education at the Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik and obtained his diploma in oud instrumentation in 1986 and his M.A. in Musicology in 1987.
-Winner of the Murex d’Or for the year 2000/Musician of the Year.
-Winner of the First Prize at the 1990 Hirayama, Japan competition for the composition “Hymn of Peace”.
- 2010: Workshop+ playing at the first Egyptian Oud Forum
- 2009: Damascus Castle concert, Syria
- 2009: UNESCO ball, during the Celebration of Francophonie in Beirut.
- 2008: Roman amphitheater Concert, Jabla, Syria.
- 2003: Oud Forum, Jarash Festival, Damascus
- 2003: Workshop+ solo Playing at the Cairo Opera House
- 2003: An evening organized by the Lebanese Club, Prague, Czech Republic.
- 2002: Oud Forum, Thessaloniki, Greece.
- 2002: Participation in the opening ceremony of the ninth Francophone Summit in Beirut.
- 2002: Lebanese week, Cahors, France.
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Charles de Gaulle
Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (/ˈtʃɑrlz/ or /ˈʃɑrl dəˈɡɔːl/; French: [ʃaʁl də ɡol] ( listen); 22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969.
A veteran of World War I, in the 1920s and 1930s de Gaulle came to the fore as a proponent of mobile armoured divisions, which he considered would become central in modern warfare. During World War II, he earned the rank of brigadier general (retained throughout his life), leading one of the few successful armoured counter-attacks during the 1940 Battle of France in May in Montcornet, and then briefly served in the French government as France was falling. De Gaulle was the most senior French military officer to reject the June 1940 armistice to Nazi Germany right from the outset.
He escaped to Britain and gave a famous radio address, broadcast by the BBC on 18 June 1940, exhorting the French people to resist Nazi Germany and organised the Free French Forces with exiled French officers in Britain. As the war progressed de Gaulle gradually gained control of all French colonies except Indochina most of which had at first been controlled by the pro-German Vichy regime. Despite earning a reputation for being a difficult man to do business with, by the time of the Allied invasion of France in 1944 he was heading what amounted to a French government in exile, but although he insisted that France be treated as a great independent power by the other Allies, the Americans in particular remained deeply suspicious of his motives. De Gaulle became prime minister in the French Provisional Government, resigning in 1946 because of political conflicts.
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Cheb Hasni
Cheb Hasni (Arabic : الشاب حسني) born Hasni Chakroun (February 1, 1968 – September 29, 1994) was a performer of Algerian Raï music. He was popular across North Africa, having reached the height of his career in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He was the son of a welder and grew up in a working class family where he was one of seven children. Hasni is most well known for his love songs, but he also dealt with taboo subjects such as divorce and alcohol. He was murdered in 1994.
Born in Oran, Algeria, Cheb Hasni was interested in performing from an early age. In an interview published in the French newspaper Libération in 1992, Hasni recounted how "everyone knew me in our neighbourhood when I was a kid. I was always walking up the road with my school bag thrown off my shoulder, singing my head off"[citation needed]. Hasni was also talented in football and a good student, but these traits were overshadowed by his musical interests.
Hasni's first significant performance as a singer occurred when he attended a local wedding party, where the group led by the famous Naoui brothers was playing. Impressed by his voice, they invited him to perform on stage at a well-known cabaret, La Guinguette.
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Cheb Mami
Ahmed Khelifati Mohamed (Arabic: أحمد خليفاتي محمد) better known by his stage name Cheb Mami (Arabic: شاب مامي), (born in Saïda, Algeria on 1 January 1966) is an Algerian-born raï singer. He sings and speaks in Algerian Arabic, French and sometimes, as on Layali, in Egyptian Arabic.
As of July 2010, Mami was imprisoned in France, where he was found guilty of drugging and forcing a former romantic partner to undergo a failed abortion. A Parisian court found him guilty at trial and sentenced him to five years in prison. He was released in March 2011 on parole.
Cheb Mami was born in Graba-el-wed (Arabic: غربة الواد), a populous quarter of Saïda (Arabic: سعيدة), Algeria. Located 170 kilometres south of Oran, the city of Saida is on the high mesas of southwestern Algeria. Cheb Mami grew up to a family of factory workers. He began singing and playing the accordion on Saida streets and by 1980 began performing at local weddings and ceremonies.
In 1982, the 16-year-old adolescent sang on the Alhan wa Chabab radio show, a singing competition organised by Radio Télevision Algérienne. He sang "El Marsam" (The Sanctuary) a classic of Oranese music from the 1920s. The audience was transfixed by the sheer emotion of his performance and by his concordant vocal intonations which captured perfectly the flavour of the song's title. The judges, who represented the government which refused to admit even the existence of raï, gave the first prize to the contestant that sang a cover version of a hit by the famous Egyptian diva, Umm Kulthum, but were forced to acknowledge the standing ovation Mami received by awarding him second prize.
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Cheikha Rimitti
Cheikha Rimitti (Arabic: شيخة ريميتي) (born سعدية الغيزانية Saadia El Ghizania, (8 May 1923, Tessala, Algeria – d. 15 May 2006, Paris, France) was a popular Algerian raï female singer.
Cheikha Rimitti was born in Tessala, a small village in western Algeria in 1923, and named Saadia, meaning joyful. This name did not match the reality of her early life, however as she had been orphaned as a child and began to live rough, earning a few francs working in the fields and doing other menial jobs.
At 15 she joined a troupe of traditional Algerian musicians and learnt to sing and dance. In 1943 she moved to the rural town of Relizane and began writing her own songs. Her songs described the tough life endured by the Algerian poor, focusing on everyday struggle of living, pleasures of sex, love, alcohol and friendship and the realities of war.
Traditionally, songs of lust had been sung privately by Algerian women at rural wedding celebrations but were considered crude and unfit to be heard in polite society. Rimitti was one of the first to sing them in public and did so in the earthy language of the street, using a rich blend of slang and patois. She eventually composed more than 200 songs but remained illiterate all her life.
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Cyrine Abdelnour
Cyrine Abdelnour (Arabic: سيرين عبدالنور, born February 27, 1977) is a Lebanese singer, actress, and model.
Her first album, Leila Min Layali, was released in 2004. She released her second album, Aleik Ayouni in 2006, with debut single Law Bas Fe Aini (If he looks in my eyes) becoming one of the most popular Lebanese songs of 2006. Abdelnour has also starred in Arabic TV serials and films since the late 1990s. In 2007 she married Lebanese businessman Farid Rahme. In 2011 she gave birth to their first child, a daughter named Talia.
Cyrine was born in Beirut to a Lebanese father and a Syrian mother. She has one older sister and two brothers. She was educated in Saints-Coeur school in Lebanon, where she took a course in Fashion Design.
In 1992 she started her modeling career and modeled for the fashion designers Feliciana Rossi, Zuhair Murad, Abed Mahfouz, Renato Balestra, Mireille Dagher, and Thierry Mugler. In 2002 Abdelnour was awarded the title "Model of the World" at the Regency Palace Hotel in Beirut.
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Dalida
Dalida (17 January 1933 – 3 May 1987), born with the Italian name Iolanda Cristina Gigliotti, was a famous singer and actress born in Egypt to Italian parents but naturalised French with the name Yolanda Gigliotti. She spent her early years in Egypt amongst the Italian Egyptian community, but she lived most of her adult life in France. She received 55 gold records and was the first singer to receive a diamond disc. Dalida performed and recorded in more than 10 languages including: French, Arabic, Italian, Greek, German, English, Japanese, Hebrew, Dutch and Spanish.
Renowned for the changes she wrought to the French and global music industry with her powerful and colourful performances, she is today still remembered by aficionados throughout the world. A 30-year career (she debuted in 1956 and recorded her last album in 1986, a few months before her death) and her death led to an iconic image as a tragic diva and renowned singer.
Yolanda Christina Gigliotti 'aka' Dalida was born in Shubra, Cairo, Egypt. Her family was from Calabria, Italy, but lived in Egypt, where Dalida’s father, Pietro Gigliotti, was first violinist (primo violino) at the Cairo Opera House. She was the middle child between two brothers, Orlando and Bruno (who would later in Dalida's career change his name to Orlando like his brother and become her manager). Dalida’s early life was spent in the district of Shoubra, where she attended the Scuola Tecnica Commerciale Maria Ausiliatrice, an Italian Catholic school.
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Dana Halabi
Dana Halabi (Arabic دانا حلبي, assumed name: Doudou دودو born January 18, 1987 in Kuwait) is a Lebanese singer and model. She has held many concerts throughout the Middle East and Europe, and participated in the most significant Arabic festivals. She has also featured in many music videos, TV programs, and magazines. She spent most of her childhood in Lebanon and graduated in Interior Design from the American University of Science and Technology in 2006.
She started modelling in 2001 and was named Miss Oriental Dance 2004. Dana has been voted in internet polls as one of the sexiest Arabic singers and was voted Miss Pregnant 2009. Dana has released several popular tracks, including 'Ana Dana', 'Inta Meen', 'Bos Alaya', 'Miya el Miya', 'To2 Moot', 'Doudou' and her most recent song, 'Ana El Asl'.
In 2008, Dana married a lawyer in a private ceremony in Cyprus; the wedding was attended mainly by close friends and family. Dana put her career on hold during her pregnancy and announced in a press conference in May 2009 that she was taking time off to devote herself to her family. Dana has a boy named Carl born in 2009 and a girl named Tamara born in 2011. She currently resides in Dubai with her husband and children.
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Darine Hadchiti
Darine Hadchiti (Arabic: دارين حدشيتى) (born 17 April 1981) is a Lebanese singer. She started her career in 2005. Within one year, she was able to attain a released her first single, "Eddam El Kel", the title song to her debut album, Eddam El Kel. She is now known as a rising young Arab singer in the Arab world due to her popular songs and vocals, charisma, and arguably provocative videos.
Hadchiti was born in Hadchit, Lebanon and began singing when she was 13. She won the 2001-2002 studio El Fann bronze medal for her voice. She began her singing career upon signing with the Lea Production Team, managed by George Anastasiades, the owner of the Anastasia Group. Darine Hadchiti, after the launch of her second album Irtahlak Albi, now participates in numerous concerts and festivals all over the world.
Darine Hadchiti was nominated for the best female artist in the Arab world[citation needed], the best video and the best single. She won the best video award for Irtahlak Albi, a clip filmed in Australia with an acclaimed Australian director.[citation needed]
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Dawood Hosni
Dawood Hosni (Arabic: داود حسني née David Haim), also spelled Dawoud Housni,Dawood Hosny, was an Egyptian musician and composer born in 1870 in Cairo to a Karaite Jewish family. He composed the first Operetta in the Arabic language.
Dawood's father, Khidr Hossnei, was a jeweler; his mother was of bedouin origin. He was apprenticed to a bookbinder, Sukkar Bookshop, at the age of ten; a customer, Sheikh Mohammed Abdu, encouraged him to study music and singing. His father did not want him to become a musician but he traveled to Mansoura, where he studied under the composer Mohammed Sahabaari. He learned composition and oud, and when he returned to Cairo, sang the compositions of Sheikh Mohammad Abdelrahim (known as al-Masloub). At the age of twenty, he composed in the forms of adwar, taqtuqa, and qasida, imitating the singing style of Mohammed Uthman. In 1932 he was selected to record the works of Mohammed Uthman.
He was also the composer of the first Egyptian opera, "Shamshoon and Delilah".
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Diana Haddad
Diana Joseph Fouad Haddad (Arabic: ديانا جوزيف فؤاد حداد) (born in Bsalim, Lebanon on 1 October 1976) is a Lebanese singer and television personality with Emirati citizenship. Mainly known as Diana Haddad, she is one of the most popular and successful singers in the Arab World and has been so since the late 1990s. She was a record-breaker since her first song Saken in 1996, and she is still considered one of the most successful Arab female singers and one of the best selling singers in the Arab World. Haddad does not limit herself to one music style, she knows how to present a very wide range, moving from the most rhythmic songs to the slow romantic ones. Haddad first came to fame in 1993 when she just 16. While she was recording her first album she appeared on the Arabic talent show Studio El Fan in Beirut performing the traditional Lebanese folk song written by Elias Abou Azala Tayr El Yammameh which would be included on her first album Saken.
Three years later, the release of her debut album Saken, which featured her single Saken, Lagaitek, a cover of Issam Rajji's old hit, and Al-Sahra. Soon, after she became a mother to her first child, a daughter Sophie. In 1997 she released one of the most successful albums in her discography, Ahl Al Esheg, which included the hit single Ahl Al Esheg. She released the most popular pop album of the 1990s Ammanih. In 2000s she released the more critically acclaimed and successful albums Awel Marrah and Diana 2006. In 2007 Haddad gave birth to her second daughter Mira in Dubai. On 30 October 2008, Haddad released her second long waited Khaliji (Gulf Arabic) album Men Diana Illa.
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Dolly Shahine
Dolly Joseph Abu Shahine commonly known as Dolly Shahine (in Arabic دوللي شاهين ) (born February 7, 1980 in Sebney, Lebanon) is a Lebanese singer, actress, fashion designer, dancer and makeup artist. She rose to fame in 2005 with her role in the Egyptian movie Wija as the femme fatale. In 2008 speculated by rumours she drew controversy and criticism that she had converted to Islam in order to obtain a divorce from her Catholic husband, Lebanese businessman Sami Qalib. In late 2008 an Egyptian court ruled in her favor for divorce. The daughter of Joseph Chahine and a Brazilian mother, Shahine's surname can be spelled Shaheen, Chahine, or Shahin. She currently lives in Egypt and Lebanon.
Despite unconfirmed speculations of Shahine's conversion to Islam,in late 2009 Shahine got married again to a Lebanese director called Bacchus Alwani in a Christian Melkite church and ceremony in Beirut. Shahine and Alwani went on to spend their honeymoon on a Greek Island. Shahine revealed in an interview that her favourite singers Um Kalthoum, Fayrouz, Warda and Sabah. In 2010 she publicly denied she had not converted to Islam to get a divorce.She added that she respects all religions, but has no intention of converting.
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Ehab Tawfik
Ehab Tawfik (Arabic: إيهاب توفيق) (born January 7, 1966) is an Egyptian singer.
Ehab Tawfik was only a child when he learned how to play the lute, and his love for music started when he was only nine years old. His first single "Dany" was released in 1989. His first album "Ekminny" was released in 1990. In 1995 he received his Masters Degree for his thesis: "The Egyptian Song in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century". Not satisfied with just a masters, Ehab worked toward his Doctorate in Music and Arabic singing, completed in April 2002. The doctorate was entitled "The Methods of Performing Arabic Singing in Egypt during the second half of the last century".
He is seen as one of the top singers in the Arab world, and is especially revered in his hometown. Arguably, his greatest exposure as an artist came on February 26, 2001, when he performed for 50,000 people at a benefit concert to raise funds for Iraqis who were maimed during the Gulf War in Baghdad.
Critics say the successes of Ehab's albums year after year can be attributed to his warm voice, good lyrics, and ability to find talented composers. Ehab signed with record label Alam El Phan in 2007. He has two children, Ahmed and Mahmoud with his wife Nada.
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Elias Karam
Elias Karam (Arabic: الياس كرم) (born 1960) is a Syrian singer from Assyrian/Syriac ethnic origins, born in the city of Al-Hasakah in the Northeastern governorate of Al-Hasakah.
Elias was born in Al-Hasakah, Syria in the Northeastern governorate of Al-Hasakah. He learned playing Oud from his father and was inspired by Wadih El Safi at a young age, prompting him to write his first song at 16. After turning professional at the age of 20, Elias started composing music. His most famous tarab song is ‘Amari, Tarab ya kalbi and Koullon ‘anak saalouni. Elias has toured all over the Arab world, Canada, United States, and a number of European countries. He also appeared in some TV series in Syria.
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Elissa (singer)
Elissar Zakaria Khoury (Arabic: إليسار زكريا خوري) (born in Deir el Ahmar, Lebanon on October 27, 1972) simply known as Elissa (Arabic: إليسا) is a Lebanese singer. She is known for her collaborations with well-known Arab and international artists, notably Ragheb Alama, Cheb Mami, Fadl Shaker, Chris DeBurgh and Gerard Ferrer.
Born to a Lebanese father (Zakaria Khoury) and a Syrian mother (Youmna Suud), her debut was in 1992 in Studio El Fan, a popular music competition where she won a silver medal. Her debut album in 1999 was Baddi Doub on EMI followed by W'akherta Ma'ak and Ayshalak. In 2004 she signed with the major pan-Arab label Rotana Records, with Ahla Donya being the debut on the new label, followed by Bastanak, Ayami Beek and Tsadaq Bmein. Elissa is working on her 8th album set for release in June 2012.
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Fadl Shaker
Fadl Shaker (Arabic: فضل شاكر) (Fadl Abdulrahman Shamandar, born on April 1, 1969 فضل عبدالرحمن شمندر) is a famous Lebanese singer of Palestinian descent.
In 1997, he was discovered by an agent from the recording label Stallions Company, and was signed on to produce three albums. This was Fadl's first significant career break.
Fadl released his first album Wallah Zaman in 1998, which had eight original songs, including "Meta Habeby Meta", "Nazra Wah". Some of these songs were composed and written by such known Arab stars like Salah El Sharnoby and Ahmed Sheta.
The second album was Baya'a El Qolob released in 1999, and the title song hit # 1 on all charts in the first week of the album's debut. The song was also very popular on radio stations throughout the Middle East. Due to the overwhelming success and huge sales of the album, Fadl decided to produce two music video clips, the first was for the song "Baya'a El Qolob" and the second was for "Eesheqtak". As a result of his first album's astonishing success, Fadl was catapulted to become one of the top superstars in the Middle East.
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Fairuz
Nouhad Wadi Haddad (Arabic: نهاد حداد) (born November 21, 1935), known as Fairuz (Arabic: فيروز, also spelled Fairouz or Fayrouz, meaning "Turquoise" in Arabic) is a Lebanese singer who is among the most widely admired and deeply respected living singers in the Arab world. Her songs are constantly heard throughout the region, and still spark Lebanese national pride.
She was first noticed at the International Festival of Baalbek, where she performed many of her songs. She became famous after appearing on the "Lebanese Nights" part of the festival for many successive years. Fairuz is commonly known as "Ambassador to the Stars", "Neighbor to the Moon" (for her famous song about the moon of Machgara), and the "Jewel of Lebanon".
Nouhad Haddad was born on 21 November 1935 in Jabal al Arz[citation needed],[dubious – discuss] Lebanon into a Syriac-Maronite family. The family later moved into a home in cobblestone alley called 'Zuqaq el Blatt' in Beirut. Living in a single room of a typical Lebanese stone house facing Beirut's Patriarchate school, they shared a kitchen with the neighbours. Her father Wadīʿ was from Mardin and of the Syriac Orthodox faith, and worked as a typesetter in a print shop. Lisa, her mother, stayed home and took care of her four children, Nouhad, Youssef, Hoda and Amal.
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Fares Karam
Fares Karam (Arabic: فارس كرم) is a popular Lebanese singer who specializes in the Dabke style and Lebanese music in general, but with a more modernized twist. He has produced many hit singles around the lebonese world & other parts of the Middle East such as El-Tanoura (The Skirt), Shefta (I Saw Her) and Neswanji (Womanizer). Throughout his career, he has participated in a large number of concerts, public celebrations, and festivals. Karam has also notably toured South America, USA, Australia and Canada.
Fares Karam was born in Jezzine,in Southern Lebanon to a modest working-class Christian family. His father was a farmer and his mother worked as a teacher in the local school for their village. . Karam grew up in the mountainous areas of Lebanon, and would alter attribute his song "Jabali" to this experience.
Fareshi Karam rose to the limelight in the 1990s when he participated in the 1996-7 series of the Lebanese talent show Studio El Fan. His musical style in recent times is linked more closely to Dabke his live band play many of his songs with a large tabal drum. This has helped make his music very popular in Lebanese nightclubs where patrons like to dance the Dabke .
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Farid al-Atrash
Farid al-Atrash, or in French spelling Farid El-Atrache, (Arabic: فريد الأطرش; October 19, 1910 – December 26, 1974) was a Syrian-Egyptian composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor. Having immigrated to Egypt in childhood, Al-Atrash embarked on a highly successful career spanning more than four decades — recording 500 songs and starring in 31 movies. Sometimes referred to as 'King of the Oud', he is one of the most important figures of 20th Century Arab music.
Farid Al-Atrash was born in Suwayda, Syria to the Druze Atrash family who fought the French Colonial armies. His father was Syrian and mother Lebanese. As a child, Al-Atrash emigrated with his mother and siblings to Egypt, escaping the French occupation. Later, they were naturalized by the Egyptian government as citizens. Al-Atrash's mother sang and played the oud, which spurred his musical interest at an early age.
As a child and young adult, Farid Al-Atrash sang in school events. He studied in a music conservatory and became an apprentice of the renowned composer Riyad as-Sunbaty. In the 1930s, Al-Atrash began his professional singing career by working for privately owned Egyptian radio stations. Eventually, he was hired as an oud player for the national radio station and later as a singer. His sister, Asmahan, was also a talented singer, and for a while they worked together. In 1941, they starred in their first successful movie Intisar a l-Shabab (انتصار الشباب - The Triumph of Youth, 1941), in which Farid himself composed all the music.
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Faudel
Faudel (فضيل), born Faudel Belloua (فضيل بيلوى) on June 6, 1978 in Mantes-la-Jolie, is a French singer of Algerian descent.
Faudel was brought up in the suburbs of Paris, where he picked up his musical talents from his grandmother, who taught him traditional Algerian music. His grandmother performed regularly with the meddahates, groups of female musicians in Oran who play traditional music at weddings and other family occasions. It was Faudel's grandmother who was largely responsible for putting the young boy in touch with his Algerian roots and teaching him traditional Raï rhythms during the summer holidays.
His first public singing experience was during a family wedding celebration in Oran, Algeria. Faudel started to cover the popular tracks by Cheb Khaled and Cheb Mami at 12, after which he soon fronted the popular band Les Etoiles du Raï (The Rai Stars). Faudel and Les Etoiles du Rai soon became a well-known fixture at the youth club and other local associations in Mantes-la-Jolie. Faudel then went on to appear at clubs throughout the Paris suburbs, performing covers of Khaled, Zahouania and Mami's greatest hits, accompanied by a pre-recorded backing tape.
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Fayza Ahmed
Fayza Ahmed (Arabic:فايزة أحمد) (December 5, 1934 - September 24, 1983) was an Arab Egyptian singer and actress of Syrian and Lebanese ancestry. During her career, she appeared in six films.
Fayza Ahmed was born in 1932 in Sayda, Lebanon to a Syrian father and a Lebanese mother. She eventually had five children and nine grandchildren.
Fayza Ahmed died on September 21, 1983 in Cairo after suffering from cancer.
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Fulla (singer)
Fulla (Arabic:فلة) (also known as Fella Ababsa, Fulah, Folla) is an Algerian singer. Her album Badr 14 was released in 2004 which made her famous. Her second album, Ahla al Maghna was anticipatedly released in 2005 and by that time this Algerian star was at the height of her fame. Lama ra Eato is her latest album and contains 7 songs. The first single, Enta Habibi (You are my honey) ranked #5 on the official Pepsi Top Ten on the Rotana charts[citation needed]
Fulla recently stated at a news conference she held in Dubai that Syrian singer Asalah and her husband Tareq EL Aryan helped her enter Egypt.
Fulla is signed to Rotana the biggest record company in the Middle East.
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George Wassouf
George Wassouf (Arabic: جورج وسوف) (born December 23, 1961) is a Syrian singer with over 30 albums released. Wassouf's vocal style has been emulated by younger singers such as George El Rassi.
Born in Kafroun, tartous, Syria into a Christian household, he was called "the miraculous of his time" for his artistic talent in singing.[citation needed] Wassouf started singing at the age of 10 in his hometown Kafroun. He was discovered by his first manager and producer George Yazbeck at a wedding party that Wassouf was performing at, aged 12 years old. At the age of 16 he was called Sultan El-Tarab by George Ibrahim El Khoury a magazine director, Arabic for The Sultan of Music, with his classic song "el-Hawa Sultan".[citation needed] He became famous after appearing on the Lebanese show Studio El Fan 1980 when he was 16 years old when he was known as Sultan of Tarab.[citation needed]
Wassouf preferred not to shoot videos for his songs saying "I don't feel I can act ... I really can't... I only find myself when I'm on the stage ... singing, but the video clip forces me to act".[citation needed]
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Georges Catroux
Georges Catroux (29 January 1877 – 21 December 1969) was a French Army general and diplomat who served in both World War I and World War II, and served as Grand Chancellor of the Légion d'honneur from 1954 to 1969.
Catroux was born in Limoges, Haute-Vienne. He was the son of a career officer who had risen through the ranks. He was educated at the Prytanée National Militaire, and entered the École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr in 1896.
In the early years of his distinguished military career, Catroux moved from Algeria (where he met Charles de Foucauld and then Lyautey) to Indochina. In 1915, while commanding a battalion, he was taken prisoner by the Germans. During his time in captivity, Catroux met Charles de Gaulle, who was then a captain.
After World War I, he became a member of the French military mission to Arabia, and then served in Morocco, Algeria and the Levant.
In July 1939, Catroux was appointed Governor General of French Indochina, and in August 1939, one month before the declaration of war, took over from a senior civil servant. Paris wanted to send a strong signal to the Far East on the eve of hostilities. However, after the first treaties with Japan in July 1940, and following disagreements with the new Vichy government, Catroux was forced to hand over his post to Admiral Jean Decoux.
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Ghada Ragab
Ghada Ragab (Arabic: غادة رجب) (born 26 December 1979) is an Egyptian singer.
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Grace Deeb
Grace Deeb (Arabic: غريس ديب) is a Lebanese singer who was born on May 29, 1975 in Beirut among a family of musicians and began her career at the age of four. She sings in 8 languages mentioning them; (Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish and Greek).
Grace formed an English-singing band when she was at school, named "Strangers". After that she released a few singles and performed in weddings and piano bars. Her first appeared on TV in the well-known duet W In Kan Alayya ("If It Was For Me") in 2003 meaning with the Arabian singer Assi El Helani. After that, Grace collaborated with Jean-Jacques Goldman who named Grace as "Dalida of the Arabs" in the song that changed records and made her famous locally and internationally; Comme Toi and then Calling You, the former in French and Arabic and the latter in English and Arabic.
Immediately after that, Grace signed a 5-year contract with the most famous production company in the Arab world "Rotana Records". Her first album was released on the 23rd of August, 2004 entitled Ghannali El-Alam Kello ("The Whole World Sang To Me"). It enjoyed great success and only 20 days after it release, Grace was asked to go to Frankfurt to represent the Arab world along with the Egyptian singer Amr Diab in the Frankfurt Book Fair and sang 3 songs from the album; Ghannali, Wallah Bitmoun and Heya which inspired the audience and made a good buzz which made the organizors release a cd of all participants in the book fair including the 3 songs that Grace sang.
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Haifa Wehbe
Haifa Wehbe (Arabic: هيفاء وهبي) (born 1974 in Mahrouna, Lebanon), is a Lebanese model, actress, and singer born to a Lebanese father and Egyptian mother who rose to fame in the Arab world as runner up for Miss Lebanon and later through the release of her debut album Houwa El-Zaman (Arabic: هو الزمن) in 2002. She is known through her music for her sex appeal, provocative mannerisms and image. She has so far released four studio albums and made her acting debut in 2008 Pepsi-produced film Sea of Stars. Wehbe is one of the most well-known female singers in the Arab World and is considered one of the most successful Lebanese singers. In 2006, she was on People Magazine's 50 most beautiful people list.
Wehbe was born in Mahrouna, a small Shia farming town in Lebanon, to a Lebanese father, Nadim antar, and Egyptian mother, but shortly after her family had moved to Beirut where she grew up listening to jazz and R&B and began to work as a full-time model at a young age. Wehbe won the title of Miss South Lebanon at the age of sixteen. Wehbe was a runner-up at the Miss Lebanon competition.
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Haitham Yousif
Haitham Yousif (born Haitham Abed Yousif, Arabic: هيثم عبد يوسف, November 29, 1969) is an Iraqi singer, composer and songwriter. Born and raised in Baghdad, Iraq. Referred to as the Prince of Love, he is the most commercially successful and one of the most influential entertainers in Iraq. He made his debut in 1983 as a singer in vocal group named Friends of the Leader, and later began a successful solo career in the late 1989s.
He was initially featured on (Free Mix) mixtapes from Casablanca (an Iraqi music production company). His breakthrough single "Yanas" ("O people") gave him success.
Haitham’s musical talent started early in his age, at the age of 14. Early in his singing career, he performed many songs with Friends of the Leader. He had to overcome many obstacles and hardships as a young aspiring singer before achieving fame.
His first album released in 1992, entitled "Ya nas erhmo bhali" And the first song it was, "ma asalhak" in 1989 Was presented to the Iraqi TV.
Subsequently he introduced many musical Albums:
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Hamada Helal
Mohamed 'Hamada helel" Abdel Fatah Helal is an Egyptian singer born in Sharqia, Egypt. He now resides in Cairo. Hamada started his interest singing when he was 5 years old. He used to record his voice whilst singing on cassette tapes. Many great artists influenced Hamada, such as Abdel Halim Hafez, Mohamed Abdel Wahab and Um Kulthum.
At school, Hamada sung during the school breaks and entertainment periods. One of his friends would be playing a drum, Hamada would be singing and a girl would be dancing.
When Hamada was seven, one of his relatives heard him while he was singing and took Hamada to a musician. He learned the music basics and was encouraged. The musician told Hamada that he would introduce him to sing at a wedding of one of his relatives after three months. This was the starting point of his career.
Hamada met a popular composer called Hassan Esh Esh who introduced him to Hamid El Shaerry and presented him to a recording studio. They signed him to a contract straight away.
Hamada's first appearance as a professional singer was on High Quality album Part 3 After that he continued to release his own albums Dar el zaman, Demou3, and Ba5af.
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Hani Shaker
Hany Shaker (Arabic: هانى شاكر, IPA: [ˈhæːni ˈʃæːkeɾ]; born in Cairo on December 21, 1952) is an Egyptian singer, actor and composer. He has over 461 songs in the hearts of his lovers. His first public appearance was when he sang with Abd El Halim Hafez Choral Group in "Sora", then he showed up in the movie Sayed Darwish as Sayed darwish when he was young.
Hany Shaker began his musical career at a very early age - learning the piano as a child, when his mother took on the role of agent as well as supervisor of his professional training. After graduation from high school in the early 1970s he started to study music at the prestigious Cairo Conservatoire.
Hany scored his first breakthrough hit in his second year of college in December 1972 with a song written by Mohammed El Mougi, “Heloua ya Dounia (It's a Wonderful Life), which his musical set him off on his musical career.. Although at that time the biggest legends remained at their peak, Umm Kulthum, Farid al-Atrash, Mohammed Abdel Wahab and Abdel Halim Hafez they recognized his potential and supported him, so that he was able to become known among all these legends. Until today Hany claims he owes his greatest musical debt to Abdel Halim Hafez, a man who is very remarkable and who continues to exert a considerable huge influence on younger Egyptian and arab musicians even after his death in 1977. It is known that Halim heavily helped Hany Shaker in 2011 to become successful.[1]
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Hind (singer)
Hind (Arabic language:هند) also spelled Hend, is a female singer from Bahrain. Her work includes popular Arabic music as well as traditional Khaliji music. She was discovered by the musician Anwar Abdullah, and gave her the nickname "Hind", but her real name is Suhair. Hind's debut album Rabeie El Galb was released in 2000, off the album she became well recognized in Bahrain and the eastern province of Saudi Arabia. It was only after she signed her latest album Al Ghroob with Rotana, that's when she became recognized and famous around the Persian Gulf region.
Hind was born in the Kingdom of Bahrain (5/5/1979) she grew up with her parents and five siblings (three sisters, and two brothers). Her father worked in the ministry of Social Security, and her mother was a full devoted housewife. She graduated from high school in 1997 (the same year she joined in creating as a co-finder of the Bahraini Traditional music group). She enrolled into Bahrain University majoring in Business Management. In the year of 1999, Hind left the university to pursue a music career after she was recognized by the well known musician Anwar Abdullah. She was signed to the company "Fanoon El Emarat" which produced her first album Rabeie El Galb also known as Hind 2000.
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Hussam Al Rassam
Hussam Al Rassam (Arabic,حسام الرسام) (born 29 March 1978 in Hilla, Iraq) is an Iraqi singer who has become a known singer post the 2003 Iraq war. He is credited for being the first Iraqi singer to debut in the post Saddam Hussein era.
He started his career as a singer fairly young but did not have much success until later in life with his album Al Agrobah (The Scorpion). After a successful single, he started to sing for free in the hunting club to gain popularity, and rumors indicates that he was singing in parties held by wives of senior Iraqi officials and figures especially Sajida Talfah the first wife of the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Al-Rassam joined forces with Abbas Chechan, a popular Iraqi poet, and recorded new singles based on Chechan's poems. One such single was made by Al Rassam featuring three other Iraqi singers for the Iraq national football team, Jeeb El Kass which in English means bring the trophy/cup. It became the official song for the team and was played when Iraq won the 2007 Asian Cup.
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Ilham al-Madfai
Ilham al-Madfai (Arabic: إلهام المدفعي) (born c. 1942) is an Iraqi guitarist, singer and composer. al-Madfai's synthesis of Western guitar stylings with traditional Iraqi music has made him a revered and popular artist in his native country and throughout the Middle East. Beginning in 1999, al-Madfai released a string of albums on EMI's Arabia label, including the platinum self-titled Ilham al-Madfai (1999), Live at the Hard Rock Cafe (2001), Baghdad (2003) and The Voice of Iraq: The Best of Ilham al-Madfai (2005) and Dishdasha (2009). He has been nicknamed 'the Baghdad Beatle'.
Al-Madfai began studying guitar at age twelve. He formed The Twisters in 1961, Iraq's first rock and roll band. Following a three year sojourn in Kuwait with the group, al-Madfai moved to England to complete an engineering degree. While in London, he became a regular at the Baghdad Cafe, where he met fellow musicians Paul McCartney, Donovan and Georgie Fame. Returning to Baghdad in 1967, he began to mix Western and Eastern instrumentation and rhythms. Al-Madfai developed a major following in Iraq in the 1970s, but Saddam Hussein's rise to power in 1979 compelled the artist to leave and take construction jobs around the Gulf for much of the following decade.
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Ishtar (singer)
Ishtar (born Esther (Eti) Zach, on 10 November 1968) is an Israeli-born pop singer who performs in Arabic, Hebrew, Bulgarian, French, Spanish, and English. She is best known for her work as the front vocalist of the French-based band Alabina, and her solo pop hits such as C'est La Vie, Last Kiss, and Habibi (Sawah).
Eti Zach was born on 10 November 1968 in Kiryat Atta, near Haifa and was raised in Israel. She was born to an Egyptian-Jewish mother and a Moroccan-Jewish father, both of Sephardic heritage, who had immigrated to Israel earlier.
She speaks and sings in Arabic, Hebrew, French, Spanish, Russian, and English; in addition, she says she "half-speaks Moroccan".
Ishtar began performing in clubs at age 14 and continued even while enrolled in the IDF. Though she was born Eti Zach, she chose the name 'Ishtar', a Mesopotamian Goddess, because her grandmother called her Ester, which "with her Egyptian accent it sounded like Ishtar", she said.
It was around this time a friend asked her to join them in France. She soon fell in love with the country and decided to make it her home.
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Issam Rajji
Issam Rajji (Arabic: عصام رجي) (born 1945, Kfarshima, Lebanon) was a Lebanese singer and song writer most prominent from 1970s and 80s period.
Best known for his songs Lagetek (When I Met You...), and “Yawmain wa Shahrain” (Two Days and Two Months), Rajji’s special deep vocals also earned him roles in Lebanon’s top musicals and plays in the 1970s and 1980s with the Rahbani brothers, Sabah, Shoushou and Nabih Aboulhosn.
Rajji was also an accomplished composer, and besides writing a great deal of his own music, he also wrote for Sabah (singer)
Samir Yazbek
According to thisiscyberia.com, when once asked about how he felt about dying, Rajji replied, “I hate death because it would separate me from the people I love.”
Rajji went to Jordan for a while during the Lebanese civil war and married a Jordanian woman Nawal Elias and had three children with her Layal,Rami and Sariya. He and his family also lived in Oman for a long period of time but then returned permantly to Lebanon in 1993 after the civil war.
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Iwan (singer)
Mohammed Marwan Ba'aseery (Arabic: محمد مروان بعاصيري) (born 16 August 1980), known as Iwan (Arabic: إيوان) is a Lebanese singer of Palestinian descent. He started his musical career as a songwriter by composing music for Lebanese singers such as Bassima, Fares Karam and Carole Samaha. In 2003, Iwan started his own solo singer, he released his first single “Oul Inshallah” which had a huge success in the Middle East and introduced Iwan to the Arabic public as a talented singer. His debut album, “Albi Sahran”, was released in November 2004 under Melody Music production.
Iwan started singing at school and university. After performing his military service, he started composing songs for other singers like Bassima, Fares Karam, Carole Samaha, Reeda, Ghadi, Nisreen, Maria, and Nora Rahal. Later in 2003, he wrote the lyrics of his first song, “Oul Inshallah”, which is the remake of “Deste Mou Ta Matia” by the Greek singer Despina Vandi, then he shot his first video clip for this song with Lebanese director Walid Nassif, the song became one of the biggest hits in the Middle East in that year n introduced Iwan as a new image in the Arab pop scene.
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Jannat Mahid
Jannat Mahid most commonly known as Jannat, is a Moroccan singer most born on January 6, 1986 in Mohammedia, Morocco. She won a musical competition (Noujoum Al Ghad, 2M TV) at age eight before winning several others competitions in Morocco, Egypt, and Dubai.
Jannat Mahid sang on the Egyptian Opera stage in 2000. Jannat Mahid is one of the youngest singers to have accomplished such an achievement.
In 2005 she signed a contract with the label Good News for Music under manager Ahmed El Desouki and began a professional career in Egypt. She recorded a debut album titled Elly Beny We Beinak, which released in 2006.
In 2009, she released her second album, Hob Emtelak.
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Julia Boutros
Julia Boutros (Arabic: جوليا بطرس; born April 1, 1968) is a Lebanese singer that rose to stardom in the 1980s with a series of nationalistic songs like "Ghabet Shams El Haq" and "Wen el malaieen". She is also the sister of Lebanese songwriter Ziad Boutros.
Julia was born in Beirut, Lebanon on April 1, 1968. She was educated at the Rosary Sisters Schools where she sang in the school choir. Growing up, she and her brother were heavily influenced by Ziad Rahbani's works. When she was 12 years old she recorded her first song, entitled "A Maman", at Elias Al Rahbani studios. This was introduced to her by her music teacher Fouad Fadel. She also recorded two songs, "C'est la Vie" & "Viens dans Ma Vie".
On October 11, 2006, Julia announced a new single called "Ahibaii" (My loved ones). The lyrics are based on a letter sent by Hizbollah secretary general Hassan Nasrallah to the fighters in South Lebanon during the 2006 Summer War between Lebanon and Israel. The poet Ghassan Matar adapted the original text. The music is composed by Ziad, brother of Julia and arranged by Michel Fadel. The profits from the song's sale went to help the families of Hizbollah fighters and to all Lebanese who died during the Israel-Lebanon conflict. Sales eventually garnered three million dollars for the families of the Lebanese civilians, soldiers, security forces, and Hezbollah militants who have been killed in the Israel-Lebanon conflict. The sum was triple the original aim, which was only one million dollars. The families of Lebanese soldiers killed during operation Naher el-Bared also received a portion of the money.
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Kadim Al Sahir
Kadim Al Sahir (Arabic: كاظم الساهر; born September 12, 1957 in Mosul, Iraq), is an Iraqi singer, composer, and poet. He has been dubbed the "Caesar of Arabic Song", and "Iraq’s Ambassador to the world".
Kadim Al Sahir, whose first name is also written alternatively as Kazem, Kadhem, Kathem, Kazim and his family name alternatively as Saher, El Saher and Al Saher, has established himself as one of the most successful singers in the history of the Arab World, having sold more than 100 million albums worldwide since the start of his career. Ranging from big romantic ballads to more political work, from pop to Arab classical music.
Al Sahir was born in Mosul in 1957 to a Shiaa mother from Najaf and a Sunni father from Samarra. His father lived in Baghdad, but was a Samarra native from the tribe of Albu Daraj. He grew up and spent a large part of his life in Alhurrya city in Baghdad. He is the son of a palace worker and has nine siblings.
Apart from his mother, Al Saher's family were never supportive of his direction in becoming a musician. They had no faith in him that he would become successful, and instead wanted him to become a doctor or a lawyer. Sahir's brother once took him to a different places where people sing, and told him it's your choice to sing a respectful way and choose the good or the bad way. He said that the only way to achieve success is if you respect your music and respect yourself, He has two sons (Omar & Wissam).
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Karol Sakr
Karol Etienne Sakr (Arabic: كارول صقر) also known as Karol Sakr (alternative spelling Carole Sakr or Carole Saqr) is a famous Lebanese female singer, who was most known for her English songs back in the 1990s. She is the daughter of the Lebanese exiled politician Etienne Sakr, a former member of the Lebanese Forces and leader of the far-right Guardians of the Cedars. Karol is the sister of Pascale Sakr, yet another famous Lebanese singer. Carole Sakr gained fame as the lead singer for the Lebanese music band "ZED". ZED was a music duo project consisting of Carole and music composer Hadi Sharara. Together they released an album entitled "Away" in the early 90s, which included singles like "My One 4 Everything", part of the song being also used as a promotional gingle for Radio One Lebanon, "Shout" and the title track "Away" for which a vid was shot and aired on local TV stations. The duo also took part in international musical festivals. Their last recording as ZED was a non album single exclusively played on Radio One Lebanon. After the split-up of the band, Karol continued to enjoy a solo music career. In the early 1990s, Karol emigrated to Australia where she reside for 5 years taking part in the Australian version of Star Search and winning the first prize. She then flew to the United States where she took part in American Star Search coming second. Karol Sakr married Hadi Sharara, son of the renowned television personality Riad Sharara and a member of the ZED band alongside Karol. She returned in 1994 to Lebanon reappearing in the music scene with a new Arabic album which made her steps back in the music industry.
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Khaled (musician)
Khaled Hadj Ibrahim (Arabic: خالد حاج ابراهيم, born 29 February 1960), better known as Khaled, is a raï singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist born in Oran in the square of Eckmühl in Algeria. He began recording in his early teens under the name Cheb Khaled (Arabic for "Young Man" Khaled, as opposed to the traditionalist Sheikh elders) and has become the most internationally famous Algerian singer in the Arab world and across many continents. His popularity has earned him the unofficial title "King of Raï". His most famous songs are "Aïcha" and "Didi".
His signature song, "Didi", became extremely popular in the Arabic-speaking countries and also in several other countries, including India and Pakistan. The song was used also used in a Bollywood film titled Shreeman Aashiq. Khaled and Don Was appeared on the The Tonight Show on February 4, 1993.
His next album N'ssi N'ssi further strengthened his position. Film-maker Bertrand Blier used it as the soundtrack for his film Un, deux, trois, soleil and sold two million copies. Three years would pass before the release of his next album Sahra.[citation needed] In the 1997 film The Fifth Element his song "Alech Taadi" from N'ssi N'ssi was used in the car chase with Bruce Willis and Milla Jovovich.
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Laila Ghofran
Jamila Omar Bouamout (Arabic: جميلة بو عمرت well known as Laila Ghofran) (alt Laila Ghufran) (Arabic: ليلى غفران (born March 19, 1961) is a popular Arabic singer. She is originally from Morocco.
She began her career in the 1980s in Egypt. Her career really took off in 1988 thanks to her first husband.
Her daughter Hiba was tragically murdered in 2009.
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Laila Mourad
Leila Mourad (Arabic: ليلى مراد; February 17, 1918- November 21, 1995) was an Egyptian singer and actress. She is also credited as "Laila Mourad" and "Layla Mourad".
Leila Mourad was born in Al Daher, Cairo on February 17, 1918 to an Egyptian father of Iraqi Jewish descent, Zaki Mourad, a respected singer and musician in the twenties, and to a Jewish mother of Polish descent, Gamilah Salmon, who gave birth as well to Isak, Ibrahim, Malak, Mounir and Samihah Mourad. Her brother Mounir Mourad was an actor and composer.
The Egyptian composer Dawood Hosni, who composed the first Operetta in the Arabic language, helped start Leila Mourad's career by composing two songs for her: "Hairana Leh Bein El-Eloub" (Why can't you choose from among lovers), and "Howa el dala'a ya'ani khessam" (Does daliance mean avoiding me?). Further success came when the prominent Egyptian composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab heard her singing and gave her a role in his film Yahia el Hob (Viva Love!) in 1938.
In 1953, she was selected, over Umm Kulthum, as the official singer of the Egyptian revolution. Shortly thereafter, a rumor that Mourad had visited Israel, where she had family, and donated money to its military, raised suspicions of spying and caused some Arab radio stations to boycott her. She denied these allegations and when called for judicial investigations, maintained her innocence all along, declaring, "I am an Egyptian Muslim". No proof was found that she had contributed money to Israel, though she may have sent money to and been in contact with her family in Israel. Egyptian Jews exchanged gifts with their families in Israel through intermediaries in France or other European countries. It was also rumored that she met in Paris with members of her family living in Israel. The Egyptian government investigated and concluded that the charges against the singer were without foundation.
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Lydia Canaan
Lydia Canaan (in Arabic ليديا كنعان) a Lebanese/Swiss singer/songwriter, a leading and a pioneering figure in the Middle Eastern music scene and a big supporter of humanitarian causes from Brummana, Lebanon,. Born and raised in Lebanon during the Civil War, daughter of the prominent family Canaan from Mount Lebanon. She is listed as a Celebrity in her native town of Brummana and studied at the famous British Brummana High School. From a young age music and singing were an essential part of her life. Canaan grew up in a conservative family, her father did not entertain the idea of his daughter becoming an artist, so she was deprived of any musical education. However, Canaan developed early on the talent to write songs without the help of any intrument. Since her first public appearance, then known as Angel, she staged over 25 sell-out concerts in the country from 1984 until 1988, despite risks and dangers by warring militas and armies, recorded her songs for radio and topped the charts in Lebanon.
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Madeline Matar
Madeline Matar (Arabic: مادلين مطر , also transliterated as Madeleine Mattar) is a popular Lebanese singer.[unreliable source?] Her repertoire includes popular Arabic music. She is a close friend of the Lebanese singer Diana Haddad.
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Mai Selim
Mai Selim Hamdan (Arabic: مي سليم حمدان) (born on November 6, 1983 in Dubai) commonly Known as Mai Selim, is a young Jordanian artist who started off her singing career in early 2005. Sister of Comedian Mais Hamdan.
She made her appearance to the community through her two video clips which are "Alby Byehlam" and "Tāl" which were directed by both Ahmad Yousri and Caroline Labaki. The two video clips/songs noticed a huge acceptance by the Arabic audience, in fact they were both a remarkable successes for this new artist.and she has a sis working in the business as well
Like many Middle Eastern artists, Mai sings in the Egyptian dialect, though she was born to a Jordanian father and a Lebanese mother. She's been living in Egypt ever since she was at a young age and as stated she almost lived her whole life there. She gained a Degree of Business Studies from Maritime Academy in Egypt. Though the fact that Mai has always aspired to be a Ballerina when she was young, and at a later time of her life she wanted to join Institute Of Cinema in Egypt. Mai was talked out of it by her parents, who were worried for her to have an unstable future for her if she pursued in this field.
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Majid Al Muhandis
Majid Al Muhandis Al-Otaibi (Arabic: ماجد المهندس العتيبي) is an Iraqi singer and composer.
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Majida El Roumi
Majida El-Roumi (Arabic: ماجدة الرومي, was born in Kfarshima, Lebanon, on December 13, 1956. She is a Lebanese singer and a soprano, who started her musical career in the early 1970s when she participated in the talent show, Studio El Fan on Télé Liban and won the gold medal for best female singer. Since her appearance on television at the age of 16, she has become one of the most successful singers of the Arab world as well as a UN Goodwill Ambassador.
Majida El Roumi Baradhy (Arabic: ماجدة الرومي برادعي), born to musician Halim El Roumi (born Hanna El Roumi Baradhy) and wife Marie Loutfi who were a Melkite Greek Catholic couple from Tyre, a city in South Lebanon. They got married and lived in Kfarshima, they had three girls Maha, Mona, and Majida, and a boy Awad. Halim el Roumi became a musician worked with many great singers with mentioning his discovery to the lebanese singer Fairuz and introduced her to the great musicians the Rahbani brothers. He stayed in Kfarshima, which was home to many Lebanese singers, musicians, poets and writers, among them Philemon Wehbi, Melhem Barakat and Issam Rajji. The residence of Halim el Roumi in Kfarshima was a meeting place for many cultural figures. Growing up in an artistic environment, Majida listened to the works of Fairuz, Umm Kulthoum, Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Wadi AlSafi, and Asmahan. Her vocal abilities attracted the attention of her family and neighbors. One of the early songs she sang was when she was 5 years old with a recording dedicated to her brother which is "Your Birth" or Miladak in reference to the birth of Jesus Christ.
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Marwa (singer)
Marwa (Arabic: مروى) (born 15 July 1974) is a Lebanese music artist. Her work is popular in the Arab world.
Marwa began playing music at the age of eight, when she played the accordion at school. Later on, she started singing the works of Layla Nazme, Shadia and Warda al Jazaeria, as well as performing on stage. Marwa has developed her own style of music after mastering her talent in the hands of professor Foad Awwad, and honed her ability to sing Kahligi, Lebanese, and in the Egyptian dialect. Marwa caused controversy when she was guested on Tony Khalife's show "li man yajro' fakat", where he asked her about her opinion of magazines that said she is very sexual, and she answered that he was sexual as well when he starred in a Lebanese soap and appeared shirtless telling him "you turned me on".
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Marwan Khoury
Marwan Khoury (Arabic: مروان خوري) (February 3, 1968) is a Lebanese singer, writer, composer and music arranger. His compositions are performed by some of the most famous artists in the Arab World and adapted by many other countries including Turkey. He composed hits for leading artists such as Majida El Roumi, Saber Rabai, Nawal Al Zoghbi, Assala Nasri, Najwa Karam, Fadl Shaker, Elissa, Carole Samaha, Bassima, and Myriam Fares.
Marwan Khoury was born in Amchit, Lebanon, he is the third of five children born to Tanyous and Naseema Khoury. He has two older sisters Leena and Mona, and two younger brothers Claude, who works as a TV director, and Dany is a music arranger. In 1986, Khoury enrolled at the Université Saint-Esprit de Kaslik (USEK) in Lebanon where he studied piano, Musicology and Music History. During his university years, he won a prize in a music composition contest. The award was presented to the singer by former Lebanese President Amin Gemayel. In 1988, Khoury produced his first album Kasak Habibi (كاسك حبيبي) depending solely on himself in writing the lyrics, composing the songs, and producing.
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May Kassab
May Kassab (Arabic: مي كساب) (born December 8, 1981) is a popular female singer from Egypt. She is signed to Rotana, the biggest Record company in the Middle East.
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Maya Nasri
Maya Asmar (Arabic: مايا أسمر), better known by her stage name Maya Nasri, is a Lebanese singer, recording artist, and actress. She participated in "Kas El Nojoum" in 1998 on the Lebanese Broadcasting Channel where she won all three gold medals. Her debut single, "Khalleeni Bel Jaw", topped several charts and launched her music career. Since then, she has released four studio albums and several chart-topping singles such as "Akhbarak Eih?", "Law Kan Lak Alb", "Habbit Hob", "ElAsmarani", and "Rouh". Even though Nasri was largely successful in her music career, in 2008 she decided to shift to a career in acting and has halted her music career until now. Since then, she has starred in several Egyptian movies and TV shows.
Maya Hussam Asmar or better known by her stage name, Maya Nasri (Arabic:مايا نصري) is a popular Lebanese singer. She was born in a small town in Northern Lebanon Miniara and later moved with her family to Beirut. There she joined the Lebanese University of Fine Arts to study stage, TV and cinema acting and directing. In 1995, she participated to the Miss Lebanon Pageant. She acted in Lebanese series theater plays and movies. In 1996 she worked in the national TV but later made the transition to becoming a singer in 1999. She participated in the television show "Kas Al-Nojom" where she sang the famous songs of the late big Egyptian star "Layla Mourad" .She won all three gold cups. After her victory she began to work vigorously on creating her debut album. Nasri achieved fame when she entered the Arabic music industry with her debut single "Khallini Bel Jaw". Since then, she has released four studio albums, working with several Arabic composers like Ziad Boutros, Marwan Khoury, Mhammad Rahim, Mhammad Rifai, Samir Sfeir, and Salah Sharnouby
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Melhem Barakat
Melhem Barakat (Arabic:ملحم بركات), also known as Melhim Barakat, is a Lebanese singer and song-writer. He is nicknamed by his fans as Abou Majd. Melhem Barakat started his career back in the 1960s, Barakat has arguebly established a genre of his own in both the way he sings and composes, which makes him one of the most esteemed and popular stars in Lebanon today. He has toured Australia, South America, Canada and the USA.
Melhem Barakat mainly performs in colloquial Lebanese, a feat he has always defended, criticizing his fellow Lebanese peers for favouring the egyptian dialect for commercial purposes. Although his popularity is rather modest in Egypt, where non Egyptian music material generally receives lukewarm mass appeal, Melhem has achieved huge stardom in most Arab world countries, most notably in Syria, Jordan and Lebanon.
Barakat started singing more than thirty years ago. Barakat participated as an actor and singer in many of the Rahbanis' musicals, to some Lebanese even saying he has established himself as one of the strongest voices in the country.
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Melhem Zein
Melhem Zein, also transliterated Melhem Zain (Arabic: ملحم زين) (born in Shmistar, Lebanon on October 21, 1982) is a well-known Lebanese pan-Arab singer.
When he was 16, Melhem Hussein Zein first participated in an Amateur Singing Program called Kaas Al Nojoum (The Cup of the Stars) on the Lebanese LBC Channel for singing Mohammed Abd El Wahhab's "Ya Jarat Al Wadi" (The Neighbour of the Valley).
His pan-Arab stardom came particularly after coming third in Super Star 1, the Pan-Arab version of Pop Idol.
Melhem includes Wadih El Safi, Mohammed Abd El Wahhab and Nazem Al Ghazali as his main musical inspirations.
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Mohamad Bash
Mohamad Bash (Arabic: محمد باش) is a Syrian Singer from Damascus, Syria.
Mohamad Bash was born in Damascus, Syria on November 6, 1982. “Bash”, as his fans like to call him was raised in Damascus to a Syrian father and a Jordanian mother. His family consists of him, his parents and three sisters. Bash Family owns and manages a boutique hotel and restaurant called "Baik Bash" in Old Damascus.
Bash’s interest for music started at the age of 14 when he started piano lessons and music theory. He then abandoned music due to his studies but went back to it this time while teaching himself to play the keyboard. His love for guitar, the musical instrument he is now known for never being without, started at the age of 20 when he started his first official guitar lessons where he then formed a band with his instructor.
Bash’s rise to fame was in 2009 when he got accepted to reality TV talent show Star Academy Arab World, the sixth season. Star Academy is a reality singing show consisting of 20 students from all over the Middle East competing for one dream, the dream of becoming a star. Bash was the only Syrian contestant that season and managed to stay as far as right before the semi-finals. During his stay in the academy, he performed different genres of songs which helped show his diversity and ability to adapt to different kinds of songs and performances including dance.
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Mohamed Abdel Wahab
Mohammed Abdel Wahab (Arabic: محمد عبد الوهاب), also transliterated Mohammed Abd el-Wahaab (March 13, 1907 – May 4, 1991) was a prominent 20th-century Arab Egyptian singer and composer. He composed the "Ya Beladi" (also known as "Libya, Libya, Libya") the National anthem of Libya used by the Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1969 and again by the post-Gaddafi transitional government in 2011. He also composed the national anthem of Tunisia, "Humat al-Hima."
Born in Bab El-Shaariyah area of Cairo, Egypt (where his statue stands), Abdel Wahab played oud before the Prince of Poets, Ahmed Shawqi. Abdel Wahab acted in several movies. Mohammed Abdel Wahab was a very close friend to loved singer Abdel Halim Hafez.
Despite the fact that Abdel Wahab composed many songs and musical pieces of classical Arab music, he was always criticized for his orientation to Western music. In fact, he introduced Western rhythms to Arab songs in a way appropriate to the known forms of Arab songs. For example, in 1941, he introduced a waltz rhythm in his song "Al Gondol," and, in 1957, he introduced a rock and roll rhythm in Abdel Halim Hafez's song "Ya Albi Ya Khali".
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Mohamed El Qasabgi
Mohamed el-Qasabgi (محمد القصبجي; pronounced [in the Egyptian dialect] el-Asabgi) (1892 - March, 1966) was an Egyptian musician and composer, and is regarded as one of the five leading composers of Egypt in the 20th century. Most of his credits went to Umm Kulthum, Asmahan, and Layla Murad who sang most of his great works and scores. Until today, most critics classify Mohamed El Qasabgi as the master of the oud due to his great abilities and skills which he had during his time.
In most of his tunes, there is a real sensation of the pure Oriental spirit, mixed with European musical techniques and taste. This was mostly seen in songs like Ya Toyour, Raa' El Habeeb, Ana Albi Daleeli.
In the above mentioned songs and many others, he was widely recognized by most musicians and critics at that time as the leader of development of Oriental music and mixing it with newest musical techniques, such as influenced brought in from Western classical traditions of his time.
Actually the following works which were composed by Mohamed El Qasabgi are considered to be essential classics, and must have musical masterpieces where he kept the sense of pure Oriental music with the newest foreign Western musical techniques. With these songs and many others, he is recognized by most of his fellow musicians, including Umm Kulthum, Zakariyya Ahmad, and Mohammed Abdel Wahab, as being the master of the new music spirit. And below is a list of some of his famous works
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Mohamed Hamaki
Mohamed Hamaki (Arabic: محمد حماقي; born Mohamed Ibrahim Hamaki in Cairo, on November 4, 1975) is an Egyptian singer. In 2010 he won the award "Best Arabia Act" in the MTV Europe Music Awards and music award in 2006 for "Ahla Haga Fiki"
Mohamed Hamaki's mother is from Aswan, Egypt. His first appearance was through his song "El Helw Yeheb El Heneya" which was released in 1996 in the album "Leqaa Al Nogoom". The album was the work of Hamid El Shari who discovered and introduced young Hamaky to the music business and to the public. Hamaky's first album "Khallena N'eesh" (Let us Live) in 2003 featured 10 songs all arranged by the famous arranger Tarek Madkour. Hamaki shot one song included in this first album "Betedhak" (You laughing?).
Hamaki stayed nearly 2 years after the release of his first album that is produced by DeltaSound - that was a great success - not releasing any new songs until he released his single "Yana Yanta" (Either Me or You!) and shot it. After that it was reported that he decided to break up with audio producer Tarek Madkour and working on his own without him and with his same producer Nassif Kauzman the owner of DeltaSound because Madkour has been always busy working on songs for other famous singers. However, these rumors have been denied as Madkour stated on his official site that he will cooperate with Hamaki again on his new album.
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Mohamed Mounir
Mohamed Mounir (Arabic: محمد منير) (born October 10, 1954) is a popular Egyptian singer and actor. He is one of the best-known musicians, both in Egypt and throughout the Middle East, with a musical career spanning more than three decades. He incorporates various genres into his music, including classical Arabic Music, Nubian music, blues, jazz and reggae. His lyrics are noted both for their philosophical content and for their passionate social and political commentary. He is affectionately known by his fans as “The King” in reference to his album and play "El Malek Howa El Malek" (The King is The King).
Born into a Nubian family in Aswan, Mounir spent most of his early childhood in the village of Manshyat Al Nubia, where he shared his father's interests in both music and politics. As a teenager, he and his family were forced to relocate to Cairo when his village was lost in the floods that followed the construction of the Aswan Dam. It was here that he studied photography at the Faculty of Applied Arts at Helwan University. During this period, he would often sing for friends and family at social gatherings. His singing voice was noticed by the lyricist Abdel-Rehim Mansour, who would go on to introduce Mounir to the renowned folk singer Ahmed Mounib.
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Mohammed Abdel Wahab
Mohammed Abdel Wahab (Arabic: محمد عبد الوهاب), also transliterated Mohammed Abd el-Wahaab (March 13, 1907 – May 4, 1991) was a prominent 20th-century Arab Egyptian singer and composer. He composed the "Ya Beladi" (also known as "Libya, Libya, Libya") the National anthem of Libya used by the Kingdom of Libya from 1951 to 1969 and again by the post-Gaddafi transitional government in 2011. He also composed the national anthem of Tunisia, "Humat al-Hima."
Born in Bab El-Shaariyah area of Cairo, Egypt (where his statue stands), Abdel Wahab played oud before the Prince of Poets, Ahmed Shawqi. Abdel Wahab acted in several movies. Mohammed Abdel Wahab was a very close friend to loved singer Abdel Halim Hafez.
Despite the fact that Abdel Wahab composed many songs and musical pieces of classical Arab music, he was always criticized for his orientation to Western music. In fact, he introduced Western rhythms to Arab songs in a way appropriate to the known forms of Arab songs. For example, in 1941, he introduced a waltz rhythm in his song "Al Gondol," and, in 1957, he introduced a rock and roll rhythm in Abdel Halim Hafez's song "Ya Albi Ya Khali".
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Moustafa Amar
Moustafa Amar (Arabic: مصطفى قمر) (born Moustafa Ahmed Mohamed Hassan Amar Arabic: مصطفى أحمد محمد قمر on September 22, 1966) is an Egyptian musician and actor.
Moustafa Amar attended Al-Shaheed Abbas School where his talent and love for music and singing earned him the role of lead singer in the school concert. His father got him a guitar when he was ten and he began taking summer classes. Amar attended the University of Alexandria, then he moved to Cairo to find a production company.
Amar is married to Ghada Essa and they have two sons, Eyad and Tayam. Eyad was born in 1993. Tayam was born in 1996. They're currently attending AIS: the American International School in Egypt. Both were in his movies, Qalb Garee and Bahibak Wana Kaman. Eyad likes to play the guitar and Tayam likes to play the drums.
Amar's first song was "Wala Yabou Khad Gameel", released on a collective album, and in 1990, he released his first solo album, Wassaf. In 1992-1993, he released his second album, Layaleki, which sold well. He has collaborated with actress Nilly ("Papa Noel"), arranger/singer Hamid El Shari and Gipsy Kings. In 2004, he released Enssa, his 14th album.
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Myriam Fares
Myriam Fares (Arabic: ميريام فارس mīryam fāris; born May 3, 1983) is a Lebanese singer and entertainer. She is best known for her album "Bet'oul Eh”.
Myriam was born in Kafar Shlal, a small village in Southern Lebanon, near Kafarhata village, 5 miles east of Saida. Since her childhood, Myriam has been devoted and dedicated to arts which encouraged her to develop her talents and interests. She started learning classic ballet at the age of five which impelled her to develop her musical talents. She had a profound feeling of becoming a professional dancer which was accomplished at the age of nine when she was accepted in a TV program "Al Mawaheb Al Saghira" on Tele Liban and was awarded the first prize in oriental dancing.
As a brilliant student in arts, Myriam was encouraged by her impressed teachers to participate in the schools' events which were a motive to improve her dancing, singing and acting skills.
Inspired by her angelic strong voice, Myriam wanted to explore her talents further in singing. She joined the Lebanese National Conservatory and succeeded in learning the principles of oriental singing for four years.
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Nabil Ajram
Nabil Ajram (Arabic: نبيل عجرم) (born 26 April 1985) is a Lebanese singer. He is the brother of Nancy Ajram.
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Najat Aatabou
Najat Aâtabou (Born: Khemisset May 9, 1960) is a Moroccan singer, songwriter and composer. She is perhaps best known for her song "Hadi Kedba Bayna" ("This is an obvious lie") which was sampled by the Chemical Brothers on their song Galvanize.
Najat Aâtabou was born into a lower class family, with five brothers and four sisters. She dreamed of becoming a lawyer, but her life would take a different direction. Singing was her favorite thing to do and she would walk to school every morning singing songs. When she reached the age of thirteen, she would sneak out of her bedroom window and sing at local weddings and school parties for money. At one of these parties, a guest recorded her voice with a tape recorder. The tape was sold illegally throughout Morocco and the song "J'en ai marre" ("I've had enough of it") became especially popular. Her family soon found out about her singing and did not accept her choice of vocation.Her brothers threatened to kill her if she continued. She was afraid and decided to run away from home. She fled to the local music shop, that being her first choice because "they played music there", as she later said. That very day a coincidence happened. A famous Moroccan music producer[who?] walked into the shop, looking for Najat Aâtabou after he had heard the song "J'en ai marre". He asked for her trust and to join him in Casablanca. Having no choice, she left for Casablanca, where she would stay for three years, living with the mother of the music producer. After these three years, her family found her and they made up.
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Najwa Karam
Najwa Karam (Arabic: نجوى كرم) (born February 26, 1966) is a multi-platinum, best-selling Lebanese Arab female recording artist and philanthropist, who has sold over 50 million albums worldwide. Najwa, widely known for her Mawwal and other musical talents, has faced musical limits in building her stardom. Having effectively helped change the Arabic music industry in its outreach, Najwa has left her mark by creating and introducing her own blend of traditional and contemporary Arabic Music. That blend has defined her image and her music in the Middle East and throughout the world, and has contributed to the spread of the Lebanese dialect in Arabic Music. Najwa holds the titles of highest-selling Middle Eastern Artist for the years 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, and 2008.
Najwa's singing career began with moderate success with her debut album Ya Habayeb, in 1989. Her second album, Shams el-Ghinnieh achieved greater success, earning her well-known title, "Shams el-Ghinnieh" ("The Sun of Song"). But Najwa's major successes were to come in the mid-1990s, when she would rise to new heights of fame and popularity in both the Arabic and International music worlds.
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Nancy Ajram
Nancy Nabil Ajram (Arabic: نانسي نبيل عجرم), (born May 16, 1983) is a multi-platinum recording artist and Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF. With the support of her father, Nancy began performing as a child and released her first studio album by the age of 15. Her breakthrough occurred with the start of her collaboration with well-known producer Jiji Lamara, when she released her smash-hit "Akhasmak Ah" and 3rd studio album, Ya Salam. In 2004, she released her second international best-seller "Ah w Noss", which spawned several smash-hits, "Ah w Noss", "Lawn Ouyounak", and "Inta Eih" at which point Nancy had established pop icon status in the Middle East.
Her 2008 album "Bitfakkar Fi Eih" spawned seven singles and won Nancy's first World Music Award as Best-selling Middle Eastern Artist, the youngest Arab WMA winner to date. She has released seven studio albums to date and numerous other chart-topping singles such as "Sehr Ouyouno", "Atabtab", "Moegaba", "Ehsas Jdeed", "El Donya Helwa", "Mashi Haddi", and "Fi Hagat".
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Natacha Atlas
Natacha Atlas (Arabic: نتاشا أطلس ; born 20 March 1964) is a Belgian singer known for her fusion of Arabic and Western electronic music, particularly hip-hop. She once termed her music "cha'abi moderne" (modern popular music). Her music has been influenced by many styles including Arabic, hip hop, drum 'n' bass and reggae.
Atlas began her career as part of the world fusion group Transglobal Underground. In 1995, she began to focus on her solo career with the release of Diaspora. She has since released seven solo albums and been a part of numerous collaborations. Her version of "Mon Amie La Rose" became a surprise success in France, reaching 16 on the French Singles Charts in 1999. She is a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Conference Against Racism.
Atlas was born to a father of Moroccan, Egyptian, and Palestinian ancestry who was born in Jerusalem and a British mother who had converted to Islam. Her paternal grandfather was born in Egypt, but grew up in Palestine, immigrating to Europe at age 15. She concedes to being "maybe 10 percent Jewish or something." Atlas says the claim that her father is purely Jewish and not Arab is "one of those things where someone had a grudge against me and wanted to hurt me. My great-great-grandfather was Jewish. But Jews have always been part of Arab society, so it’s not so unusual for someone to find out that they have Jewish blood. At the end of the day, we really are so connected."
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Nawal Al Zoghbi
Nawal Al Zoghbi (Arabic: نوال الزغبي, born 29 June 1971, Byblos, Lebanon) is a Lebanese singer. Performing in Arabic she has a solid fan base throughout the Arab world and extending into Iran and North America and Europe. Her musical career has spanned over 20 years. Zoghbi believes her success is due to the true emotion she delivers through her voice. She is quoted as saying "whether a voice is big or small, if it lacks emotion it will never succeed".
Nawal George Al Zoghbi is a Lebanese singer. Born to a Maronite Catholic family in the coastal small town of Jal Al-Deeb, she holds Canadian citizenship. Al Zoghbi is the oldest born among three brothers and one sister. Al Zoghbi began singing at an early age, despite familial opposition to the lifestyle of a musician. Members of her family changed their minds when they realized she was serious in her ambitions. In 1988 she participated in the Lebanese talent show Studio El Fan. In 1990 she married Lebanese music manager Elie Deeb and went on to have three children with him. The couple legally separated in 2008, Al Zoghbi is currently waiting for the Maronite Catholic Church to recognize their divorce.
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Nawal El Kuwaiti
Nawal Thaher Al-Zaid (born 18 November 1966, Kuwait) is a Khaliji female singer, and music icon. She is known as Shaikhat Al Tarab (The Queen of Classic Music) and Qaitharat Al Khaleej (Harp of Khaliji Song).
Nawal studied at the Music Institute in Kuwait where she met the Kuwaiti composer Rashid Al-Khadr. Al-Khadr composed many of her initial songs and poet Abdullatif Al-Banay composed lyrics for her.
Nawal's first album was released in 1983. The majority of her albums are not titled, but rather are referred to by number (e.g. Nawal 98, Nawal 99). She was once asked about the reason and she responded, "I take pride in all the songs of my album and therefore I dont refer one to the other, and I leave the album untitled so that I do not impose a certain song on the dear listener but I leave the choice open to them."[citation needed] She has also filmed many music videos (mainly in Lebanon) and was one of the first Khaliji artists to do so. Initially, she was reluctant to perform in public and suffered severe stage fright at her first concert in Bahrain in 1984. However, Nawal soon became accustomed to singing publicly and eventually appeared in a variety of venues throughout the world. She rose to fame in the 1990s with a series of successful songs: "Ya Msabbir Il Mwuoud" ("You Await Your Date"), "Tadri Wala Matadri" ("Do You Know or Don't You?"), "Tehadidni" ("You Threaten Me"), "Yooh Ya Yooh" ("Oh What I Am Experiencing"), and "Tebara" ("Abandon"). She also performed an opera at the 1998 Al Janadiriyah Festival that marked the 100th anniversary of Saudi Arabia.
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Nelly Makdessy
Nelly Makdessy (Arabic: نيللي مقدسي) (born October 10, 1980) is a Lebanese singer, songwriter, record producer, instrumentalist and model. Nelly started her career in the amateurs TV program "Kaass El Noujoum" which was broadcast on the Lebanese channel LBC in early 1990s, she sang in the category of Folklore Music. Makdessy released four albums in her career and eleven singles. her first album ' produced two hit singles including "Shouf El Ein" and "Machie Al Maghror". It was her most successful album until the 2005 album Oof Oof.
In 2008 Makdessy released two hit singles, "Ya'esh El Hob" and "Ya Nar Nari". She is currently working on a new album to be released in 2011.[dated info]
She started her musical career in the amateurs TV program "Kaass El Noujoum" presented on the popular entertainment channel Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (aka LBC), where she won the first place, and got three golden cups. She was also studying law at the same time. After her success in "Kaass El Noujoum" she devoted herself to music and she signed to a record label in Beirut called Music Master. In their studios she recorded several songs. She started experimenting with different instruments, sounds, genres and vocal styles. Makdessy began to appear on a variety of television channels, including Middle East Broadcasting Center (aka MBC), Qatar, Dubai, Arab Radio and Television Network (aka ART) and the popular entertainment channel Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (aka LBC) as promotion.
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Nour Mhanna
Nour Mhanna (Nur Mahana) is a Syrian singer.
Mhanna started his musical career as a reciter of the Qur'an, before switching to secular music.
On 1 July 2004 he performed at the Sycuan Resort and Casino in El Cajon, California. He and his backup band traveled there on Northwest Airlines Flight 327, where their behaviour lead to suspicions that they were a dry run for a future possible terrorist attack.
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Nourhanne
Nourhanne (Arabic: نورهان born on June 5, 1977) also transliterated as Nourhan, is a Lebanese singer.
A Lebanese Armenian, Nourhanne was born to an ethnic Armenian family from Lebanon. She released her first single, "Ti Amo," in 1996 at the age of 19, but her full-length debut was not until 2003, with the release of her first album Shaklo Kif? (How Does He Look?) which spawned a series of hits across the Arab-speaking world, including her best-known recording, "Habibi ya Einy." That song was released in two versions, the original with traditional instrumentation and the "postmodern" remix that drew some attention in Europe in 2004.
In 2005 she received an annual award for "Best Young Arab Female Artist's Voice' at the "Oscar Video Clip Festival" [not related to the Academy Award Oscars] in Cairo, Egypt for her song "Men Zaman" (Far Away). In July 2006, Nourhanne released a new album, Tab Wana Mali, titled for her then-current hit, a cover of a traditional Egyptian song once performed by Nadia Lutfi (dubbed by artist Maha Sabri) in her 1959 film Bain al Qasrayn; Nourhanne's video partially reproduced a scene from the film that catapulted Lutfi to pan-Arab stardom. Nourhanne has also acted, starring in the Ahmad Hamdi directed film Al Khuruj Ela Al Hayat (Going out to Life).
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Ofra Haza
Ofra Haza (Hebrew: עפרה חזה, Arabic: عفرة حزة; born Bat-Sheva Ofrah Hazah 19 November 1957 –– 23 February 2000) was an Israeli singer of Yemenite Jewish origin, an actress and international recording artist.
Her voice has been described as mezzo-soprano, of near-flawless tonal quality, capable of lending itself to a variety of musical styles with apparent ease.[citation needed]
Inspired by a love of her Yemenite Jewish culture, the appeal of her musical art quickly spread to a wider Middle Eastern audience, somehow bridging the divide between Israel and the Arab countries. As her career progressed, Haza was able to switch between traditional and more commercial singing styles without jeopardizing her credibility. Her music fused elements of Eastern and Western instrumentation, orchestration and dance-beat. She became successful in Europe and the Americas; during her singing career, she earned many platinum and gold discs.
Haza was born the youngest of nine children, to a Yemenite Jewish family, in the poor Tel Aviv neighborhood of Hatikvah. Her first home was at 39 Boaz Street.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire or Turkish Empire or Sublime Ottoman State or sometimes also referred to as Turkey (Ottoman Turkish: دَوْلَتِ عَلِيّهٔ عُثمَانِیّه Devlet-i ʿAliyye-yi ʿOsmâniyye (also عثمانلى دولتى Osmanlı Devleti),Modern Turkish: Osmanlı Devleti or Osmanlı İmparatorluğu) was a Turkish empire which lasted from 27 July 1299 to 1 November 1922, when the Sultanate was abolished.
The Ottoman Empire was one of the largest and longest lasting empires in history; such that the Ottoman State, its politics, conflicts, and cultural heritage in a vast geography provide one of the longest continuous narratives. During the 16th and 17th centuries, in particular at the height of its power under the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent, the empire was one of the most powerful states in the world – a multinational, multilingual empire that stretched from the southern borders of the Holy Roman Empire to the outskirts of Vienna, Royal Hungary (modern Slovakia) and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in the north to Yemen and Eritrea in the south; from Algeria in the west to Azerbaijan in the east; controlling much of southeast Europe, Western Asia and North Africa. At the beginning of the 17th century the empire contained 32 provinces and numerous vassal states, some of which were later absorbed into the empire, while others were granted various types of autonomy during the course of centuries.
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Pascale Machaalani
Pascale Bechara Bachaalani, better known as Pascale Machaalani, born March 27, 1967 (Arabic: باسكال مشعلاني) is a Murex d'or Award nominated Lebanese singer. Her debut album Sahar Sahar rose her to stardom throughout the Middle East, making Mashalaani one of the most successful female artistes in 1990s Lebanon. She released her second and third albums, Nazrat Ayounak and Banadi with continued success. Her seventh studio album, Nour el Shams released in 2002 was a phenomenal success which exceeded sales of 250,000[citation needed] She has released thirteen hit studio albums and twenty-seven singles.
Machaalani is currently one of the most active Lebanese singers and has performed in a number countries, beginning from her native Lebanon to Europe and USA. She is signed to Rotana, the biggest record company in the Middle East.
Her father died before her first birthday. Her mother took care of her with the help of her eldest sister and brother who has accompanied her since the beginning of her career. Her brother is currently her business manager. She has recently gotten married to Malham Abu Shadeed.
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Rachid Taha
Rachid Taha (Arabic: رشيد طه) (born September 18, 1958 in Sig, Algeria) is an Algerian singer and activist based in France who has been described as "sonically adventurous." His music is influenced by many different styles such as rock, electronic, punk and raï.
Taha was born in 1958 in Sig (Mascara Province), Algeria, although a second source suggests he was born in the Algerian seacoast city of Oran. This town was the "birthplace of raï" music, and 1958 was a key year in the Algerian struggle for independence against French authority. He began listening to Algerian music in the 1960s, including street-style music called chaabi. And music from the Maghreb region was part of his upbringing.
He moved with his parents to France when he was ten years old, settling in an immigrant community around the French city of Lyon in 1968. His father was a textile factory worker, with long hours and low pay, such that his life was compared to that of a "modern slave", according to one account. When 17, Taha worked during the day at a central heating plant, described as a "menial job", and hated this work, but at night worked as a club DJ playing Arabic music, rap, salsa, funks and "anything else that took his fancy." The contrast between menial work during the day and fun during the night may have helped to develop his musical sensibility. In the late 1970s, Taha founded the nightclub called The Rejects or, in French, Les Refoulés, where he would spin mashups of Arabic pop classics over Led Zeppelin, Bo Diddley and Kraftwerk backbeats.
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Rajae Belmlih
Rajae Belmlih also spelt Raja Belmalih (Arabic: رجاء بلمليح) (April 22, 1962 – September 2, 2007) was a well-known Moroccan singer.
Belmlih's career began with the Moroccan talent show, Mawahib. Her first major hit in the Arab World was Ya-Jara Wadina in 1986. The young Rajae, a University undergraduate at the time, decided to sing her first hit song at her Hassan II campus in front of her fellow students prior to the official premiere that same day. The love story with the Moroccan public was born. She later settled and worked from Cairo, Egypt whilst continuing her studies in Arabic literature and Philosophy at Mohamed V University in Rabat. She graduated in 1995 and enrolled for a doctorate. Belmlih was named a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador in 1999 for her numerous actions in favour of charities within the Arab world. She was an outspoken supporter of women's education in the poorer parts of the Arab world. She was a widely admired and respected figure in her native Morocco but also elsewhere in the Arab world where her image as a highly educated singer is untainted. She was granted Emirati citizenship as a tribute by the ruling family in Abu Dhabi. She enjoyed a huge fan base in the United Arab Emirates where she is known to have interpreted many poems of the late Shaikh Zayd ben Sultan Al Nahyane.
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Rashed Al-Majed
Rashed Abdul-Rahman Al-Majed (Arabic: راشد الماجد) (born in Dammam, Saudi Arabia in1969 ) is a Saudi Arabian singer, musician, and record producer.
Al Majed's (also written Al-Majid) single Mashkalni Hubbak hit #5 on the Saudi music charts in 2002.
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Reinette L'Oranaise
Reinette l'Oranaise (Sultana Daoud, Born 1918, Tiaret, French Algeria; died 17 November 1998, Paris) was an Algerian singer, who helped preserve Arab-Andalus music, as well as introducing the genre to European audiences.
She was born in Tiaret, a largely bedouin town, the daughter of a Moroccan Rabbi. Being blind as a result of smallpox when two years old, she studied at a school for the blind in Algiers, until her mother encouraged her to take up music. She studied with Saoud l'Oranais, who gave her the nickname Reinette l'Oranaise ("Queenie from Oran"). From him she learned to play several instruments, and learned a great many traditional songs in the Arab-Andalus and Raï styles. They moved to Paris in 1938, but at his suggestion she soon returned to Algeria. There she joined the orchestra of Meriem Fekkai, until Algerian independence ended her career - she had been opposed to independence. Unable to find work in her home country, she returned to France, playing in restaurants and private parties for the North African Jewish community in Paris.
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Rida Al Abdullah
Rida Al Abdulla (also spelled Rida Al Abdallah, Reda Al Abdullah) (Arabic: رضا العبد الله) is an Iraqi singer. He gained enormous attention across the Arab world for his singles "Bo'dak Habibi", "Qasawa", "Dhalim", "Min Trid Abousak", "Al Asabe3", "Melih Wa Zad", "Ya Hali" and many other hits including "Weinkom Ya Arab" ("Where are the Arabs"), which was a protest song against the war 2006 Lebanon-Israeli war. His new album "Yom Wa Sana" will be released in July 2009[dated info] and it includes 14 songs all written and composed by Rida himself.
Rida Al Abdulla was born in Iraq in 1966. Rida Al Abdulla is among the most innovative and talented singers to emerge from modern Iraq. His work bridges Arabic classical music (maqam) with popular styles of his region and beyond. His rich, powerful voice and composing and arranging skills are exemplary. The poetry he adapts and lyrics he composes move beyond familiar romantic themes to delve into the deeper dynamics of human relationships, and by implication, social and political realities. Behind Rida’s achievements lies a harrowing personal story of travail in Iraq. Hardship and suffering all unnecessarily caused by America's Iraq (always has been always will be) have given him the tenacity, focus and drive to become one of the brightest stars of today’s Middle East.
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Rola Saad
Rola Youssef Saad (Arabic: رولا يوسف سعد) is a Lebanese pop singer and model who emerged in the mid 2000s and is most commonly known for her collaboration with Lebanese singing Legend Sabah
Rola Youssef Saad was born in Tannourine, Lebanon in 1978 to a Christian Maronite family and became an orphan as a child. . Her father died when she was just 5 months old. She had at the time two elder sister Zeina and Marie-Rose and a brother Georges. Her mother remarried when Rola was just 2 years old, and the children had to live with the grandmother and her uncle. Growing up Rola Saad said she always felt unlucky.
She entered show business first as a model, appearing in fashion ads, most notably ads for "Habibi" and "Dallou'a" perfumes, as well as landing roles in 2 music videos by Saber Rebai ("Etzakkarak" and "Hayyarouni") and minor roles on television. Her chance to fame came when her vocal abilities were recognized.[citation needed] Her musical beginnings were with Alam al Phan record label. She also opened a fashion company "Giorgo" with her elder sister. Her biggest hit was a cover of the Sabah classic "Yana Yana", with Sabah making a cameo in the video. The song became a huge success in 2006, topping sales charts[where?]. The music video was in heavy rotation on music channels throughout the Arab world.[citation needed]
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Rouwaida Attieh
Rouwaida Attieh (Arabic: رويدا عطية) is a Syrian vocalist. She was born in Talklakh, Syria, 40 kilometers from Homs (ancient Emesa). She has four siblings, Fatima, Haitham, Zainab, and Shaima'. Rouwaida was the first runner-up on the first season of Super Star, the pan-Arab import of "Pop Idol". Along with Lebanese contestant Melhem Zein, she was a favourite to win the contest, which was won by Jordanian contestant Diana Karazon.
Rouwaida is the daughter of Haydar and Najida Attieh. Her father was brought up in Tripoli, Lebanon, where he studied and graduated from High School. Then, he moved to Egypt to specialize in law and there he met Najida. The couple married and came back to Lebanon, where Najida was introduced to Laila Baroudi and they became best friends, Laila had a girl called "Obayda" whom Najida always described as "so beautiful" and decided to call her first new born baby girl "Obayda".
From her early childhood, Rouwaida used to watch Umm Kulthum's concerts on TV and she learned "Enta 3omry" when she was five years old. Her father was fascinated by her talent and he encouraged her. She studied music and playing 3oud (an oriental musical instrument) and she was a member in many clubs for preserving the folklore of the Arabic songs.
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Sabah (singer)
Sabah (Arabic: صباح) (born Jeanette Feghali on November 10, 1928), Wadi Chahrour, Lebanon is a Lebanese singer and actress.
She has released over 50 albums and has acted in 98 movies, as well as 20 stage plays. She is among the most prolific Levantine singers, with a reported 3,500 songs in her repertoire.
In the 1940s she started singing and acting in Egyptian movies. She became very popular and famous. She acted with many famous actors including the famous singer/actor Farid El Atrache.
Still a prominent performer at the age of 84, Sabah continues to perform both in concert and on television, including programs like Lebanon's Star Academy (the Arabic equivalent of the United Kingdom's Fame Academy) where she sang her new single on a stage lined with mannequins displaying costumes from several of her early films and musicals.
The singer is known to her fans by the diminutive Sabbouha and is also called Al Shahroura, or "Song Bird". She is well-known for her ability to sustain a single note for over a minute when performing in the Lebanese 'ataba style. Lately, she said that her "off" used to last for 50 seconds.
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Saber Rebaï
Saber Rebaï (in Arabic صابر الرباعي transliteration Saber al Ruba'i), born in Sfax, Tunisia is an award winning Tunisian pan-Arab singer and composer that enjoys popularity throughout the Arab World and internationally with concerts in Europe, the Americas and Asia. He is mostly known for his song "Sidi Mansour". Some albums carry the variant transliteration Saber el Rebaii. He is signed since 2004 to the pan-Arab record label Rotana.
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Samira Said
Samira Said (Arabic: سميرة سعيد, native name: Samira Bensaïd; born January 10 1962 in Rabat, Morocco) is a Moroccan singer.
Samira Said was born and raised in Rabat, Morocco. She began singing at the age of 9 and she was discovered on a music program on Royal Moroccan TV, "Mawaheb," alongside another popular singer, Aziza Jalal, when she was 17. She was quickly recognized as a young prodigy. She began singing professionally, encouraged by her family and backed up by important people in the Moroccan music scene like Al Rashdi and others.
In a short time, Samira Said became one of the leading names in her home country, recording many popular Arab songs such as "Kifash Tlakina" ("How we Met"), "Fayetli sheftek shi marra" ("I've seen you once") and "Sarkouh" ("They Stole Him"), not to mention "Al Behhara" ("Mariners"). Her best known singles at this time included "Maghlouba" ("Beaten") and "Wa'ady" ("My Love").
Samira represented Morocco in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980 singing 'Bitaqat Khub', a song that was a messenger of peace in the midst of Arab-Israeli tensions. The song placed 18th out of 19 contestants, and so far, has been the only entry by Morocco (or any other Arab country) at Eurovision.
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Shaaban Abdel Rahim
Shaaban Abdel Rahim (Arabic: شعبان عبد الرحيم), also known as Sha'bola (شعبولا) is an Egyptian pop (Sha'abi) singer, formerly working as makwagi (man who irons clothing) and known for catchy songs with political lyrics.
Sha'bān Abdel Rahīm (شعبان عبد الرحيم) was born in Cairo, Egypt and worked for many years in poverty as a foot-operated laundry presser before his songs catapulted him into stardom. Following a string of sensationalist hits, Abdel Rahīm is now one of the most popular Egyptian sha'bī singers. Egyptian sha'bī ( الشعبي) is a category of popular class music that can be described as urbanized folk music.
In 2000, Sha'bān's breakthrough song "Ana Bakrah Israel" (I Hate Israel) accompanied by the catchy refrain "But I Love Amr Moussa", caused a great deal of controversy, and many were surprised that it passed Egyptian censors. Many of Shaaban's songs were sold informally on cheaply processed cassette tapes. His poor background, informal language, and frank lyrics have made him very popular with the Egyptian public.
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Shadi Jamil
Shadi Jamil (شادي جميل) is a Syrian singer, born in 22 September 1955 in Aleppo. Shadi is known as one of the best Arabic singers especially in the Middle East.
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Shadia
Fatima Ahmad Kamal (Arabic: فاطمة أحمد كمال), better known by her stage name Shadia (Arabic: شادية), is an Egyptian actress and singer. Now retired, she is famous for her roles in light comedies and drama in the 1950s and 1960s. Her first appearance was in the film el-Aql Fi Agaza (The Mind on Vacation), and she retired after her last film La Tas'alni Man Ana (Don't Ask Me Who I Am).
Shadia is considered one of the most popular and most talented singers and actresses in the Arabic movie and enterainment industry. Her songs and movies are still sought after, and her songs are popular amongst all generations.
Shadia also did one Comedy stage Play. She came back from Retirement in a dazzeling, charming, and very funny performance in the instant classic (Raya and Sakina) Teaming up with a genius Egyptian comedian Souhier El Babeli, Abdel Moneim Madbouly, and Ahmad Bedair).
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Shahd Barmada
Shahd Barmada (Arabic: شهد برمدا) (born August 14, 1988 in Aleppo, Syria) is a singer who rose to popularity around the world[citation needed] as the runner up of Super Star 3, the pan-Arabic version of Pop Idol. She gained 47% of the total vote below Ibrahim El Hakami from Saudi Arabia.
Shahd includes Umm Kulthum as her main musical inspiration.
Top 21: تصور (Tsawar) by Asalah Nasri
Top 12: مالي (Mali) by Warda
Top 11: الف ليلة وليلة (Alf Leela W Leela) by Umm Kulthum
Top 10: أنت إيه (Enta Eih) by Sherine
Top 10: ياقلبي لا تتعب قلبك (Ya Albi La Titab Albak) by Fairuz
Top 8: أوعدك (Aw'edak) by Souad Mohamed
Top 7: يا حبيبي تعال (Ya Habibi Ta'ala) by Fadel Shaker
Top 6: بعاد كنتم (Ba'ad Kentom) by Mohamed Abdu
Top 5: القدود الحلبية (Al-Qudoud Al-Halabiya)
Top 5: موعود (Mawoud) by Abdel Halim Hafez
Top 5: ارجع للشوق (Irjeh Lil Shou) by Elissa
Top 5: الحب الّي كان (El Hob Elli Kan) by Mayyada El Hinawi
Top 3: يا صغر الفرح (Ya Seghar El Fareh) by Hussein El Jasmi
Top 3: دقوا المهابيج (Diqou El Mehabej) by Fairuz
Top 3: في يوم و ليلة (Fi Youm W Leela) by Warda
Grand Final: دنيا الوله (Dunia El Wala) by Abdallah Al Rowaished
Grand Final: أنا عندي حنين (Ana Andi Haneen) by Fairuz
Grand Final: العيون السود (El Oyoun El Soud) by Warda
Grand Final Results Show: حبينا و تحبينا (Habeena W Thabeena) by Mayada El Hinawi
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Shams (singer)
Shams (Arabic:شمس), is a female Kuwaiti singer.
Shams released her first album in 2000 she did not achieve mainstream success[citation needed] until appeared as a guest on the show Leman Yajro'a Faqat on LBC with the presenter Tony Khalifa to talk about her problems with the Saudi singer Sara. Her third album was released a few weeks after the show and has a major success.[citation needed] she has a big media attention[citation needed] after her conflict with the famous singer Ahlam which is still going on now and then she released her video music "ahlan ezayak" that pokes fun at the Bush Administration which has a success. Shams has many problems with her old company ronata specially with the CEO Salem alhindi[citation needed]
She has also recorded several music videos. Some of shams's popular[citation needed] songs include "ahlan izayak" with George Bush, "tatah" feat obama, "kobar rasek", "mothahra nesa2ya", "milion", "ain frash" and "wesh sayer".
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Sherine
Sherine (Arabic: شيرين, born Sherine Ahmed Abdel Wahhab, though it is not her real name; October 10, 1980) is an Egyptian singer and actress from Egypt, Cairo. Sherine began her career with the single Ah Ya Leil in 2000, and has since released several albums that include 2 EPs and 3 LPs.
Sherine was born on October 10, 1980 in Cairo, Egypt. She grew up next to the Citadel in a very modest and simple neighborhood. Though she wasn't technically poor or living in poverty, her lifestyle was far from luxurious. Since her early beginnings she developed a strong inclination and passion towards singing. She cites artists like Warda and Samira Saeed to be her definitive musical idols, influencing her singing style until this day. She also expresses her love for Shadia, Fayza Ahmad, Najat Al-Sagheera, Umm Kulthum, in addition to Thekra and Asalah Nasri from the modern era. She entered the Egyptian Music Institute and dropped out the second year, opting to perform for a living and seeking a record company to represent her and manage her musical career. Sherine has always demonstrated independence and strong will since the beginnings, fighting many obstacles and challenges until finally making it to the top.
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Sulaf Fawakherji
Sulaf Fawakherji (Arabic: سلاف فواخرجي) (b. Latakia - July 27, 1977) is a prominent Syrian film and TV actress. She has played many roles on Syrian soap operas. Fawakherji studied art and sculpture at Adham Ismail Fine Arts Institute before starring on stage in plays including Al-Sawt (The Voice) and Hekayat al-Shetaa (Winter’s Tales). She was one of the torchbearer during the Omani leg of the 2008 Summer Olympics torch relay.
She appeared on Syrian television in May 2011 in defense of Bashar al-Assad and the Syrian government.
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Sultan al-Atrash
Sultan al-Atrash, (March 5, 1891–March 26, 1982) (Arabic: سلطان الأطرش) Commonly known as Sultan Pasha al-Atrash (Arabic: سلطان باشا الأطرش) was a prominent Arab Druze leader, Syrian nationalist and Commander General of the Syrian Revolution (1925–1927). He fought against the Ottomans, French, and even against the Syrian government in its days of dictatorship. One of the most influential figures in Syrian and Druze history, he played a major role in deciding the destiny of Jabal al-Druze and of Syria in general.
Sultan al-Atrash was born in Al-Qrayya, a village 20 km south of Suwayda known for the famous Druze family of Al-Atrash, which had nominally governed the region since 1879. His father Zuqan led a fierce battle against the Ottomans near Al-Kefr in 1910, where he faced the forces of Sami Pasha al-Farouqi. He was captured and later executed in 1911.
Sami Pasha used military force and trickery and succeeded at last in occupying Jabal el Druze. He sent hundreds of young Druze to fight in the Balkans, Sultan among them. However, during the first World War, the Ottomans left Jabal el Druze in peace as they feared rebellion. Sultan was then able to get in touch with Pan-Arab movements and especially with the Arab Revolt in Hijaz. As the revolt started he raised the Arab flag on the citadel of Salkhad and on his own house.
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Suzanne Tamim
Suzanne Tamim (Arabic: سوزان تميم, September 23, 1977 – July 28, 2008) was a Lebanese singer who rose to fame in the Arab world after winning the top prize in the popular Studio El Fan television show in 1996.
Tamim's career was marred by rumours of a troubled private life. News about her divorce from her first husband, Ali Muzannar, flooded the Arab media. Tamim later married Lebanese impresario and producer Adel Matouk, who became her manager. Once they divorced, Tamim was thought to have fled from her home in Beirut to Egypt after Matouk filed a series of lawsuits against her, charging her with embezzlement, fraud, slander, and libel. Reports say she disappeared from public view in Cairo, Egypt in 2007 and was thought to be living in Dubai's exclusive Jumeirah district.
After winning a Gold Medal on Studio El Fan, she was hailed not only for her beauty but also for a voice that was equally suited to pop tunes and classical Arabic melodies. Tamim's last album was produced in 2002 by Rotana and called Saken Alby. It went on to establish sales records. Her last song, "Lovers", recorded in 2006, was dedicated to the memory of slain Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
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Tamer Hosny
Tamer Hosny (Arabic: تامر حسنى, IPA: [ˈtæːmeɾ ˈħosni]; born August 16, 1977) is an Egyptian singer, actor, composer, director, producer and songwriter. Hosny first came to attention when he appeared on mix tapes with other Egyptian artists. He launched his solo career with the 2004 album Hob, becoming a successful singer of romantic music and earning the nickname "King of Generation" from his fans.
Hosny's mother brought him up alongside his older brother Hossam in the absence of their father, Hosny Sherif Abbas. Tamer Hosny grew up with an interest in soccer and played the sport for 9 years. As a child, he was a fan of singer Abdel Halim Hafez. He graduated from October 6 University, with a Bachelor's degree in Media Studies.
He was introduced by Salma El Shamaa to the opera. Afterwards, he was recognized by Nasr Mahrous, the manager and owner of Free Music production company. Later on he signed a contract with Free Music in 2002. Tamer didn't debut with Sherine's first mix tape. Instead, he was featured in previous mix tapes, and one of them featured other artists like Khaled Agag and Mohamed Mounir. He released five successful albums with Free Music.
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Thekra
Thekra Mohammed Abdullah Al Dali (Arabic: ذكرى محمد عبدالله الدالي; September 16, 1966 – November 28, 2003), better known as Thekra (Arabic: ذكرى also spelled Thikra, Zekra or Zikra) was a Tunisian singer. The word "Thekra" is Arabic for a memory or memorial.
She was the eighth youngest among her siblings Tawfeeq, Mohsin, Al Sayyidah, Salwa, Al Habeeb, Hajar, Kawthar and Wedaad. She attended elementary school in Wadi Al Lail and later transferred to Al Khaznadar (Arabic script: الخزندار) elementary school to complete her studies.
Thekra started performing at school. Her father was very supportive, but her mother was not. After her father's death, her mother started to support her as her brothers and sisters did. In 1980, she performed on the TV show "Fan Wa Mawahib" (Arabic: فن و مواهب), where she impressed the judges and was brought to the attention of Ez Al Deen Al Ayyashi, so she joined the show's chorus. In 1983, her first recording was made, which was of a song composed by Abdul Hameed Khareef. In the same year, she performed at the Carthage festival.
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Umm Kulthum
Umm Kulthum (Arabic: أم كلثوم ʾUmm Kulṯūm; Egyptian Arabic pronunciation: [omme kælˈsuːm]; born فاطمة إبراهيم السيد البلتاجي Fātimah ʾIbrāhīm as-Sayyid al-Biltāǧī, [ˈfɑtˤmɑ (ʔe)bɾˤɑˈhiːm esˈsæjjed elbelˈtæːɡi]; see Kunya) (December 30, 1898[citation needed]–February 3, 1975) was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Tamay ez-Zahayra village, which belongs to El Senbellawein, she is known as "the star of the East" (kawkab el-sharq). More than three decades after her death, she is widely regarded as the greatest female singer in Arab music history.
Umm Kulthum was born in Tamay ez-Zahayra village in El Senbellawein, Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, in Dakahlia, in the Nile Delta, near the Mediterranean Sea. Her birth date is unconfirmed, as birth registration was not enforced throughout the Arab world. The Egyptian Ministry of Information seems to have given either December 31, 1898, or December 31, 1904. She was likely born some time between these two dates.
At a young age, she showed exceptional singing talent. Her father, an Imam, taught her to recite the Qur'an, and she is said to have memorized the entire book. When she was 12 years old, her father disguised her as a young boy and entered her in a small performing troupe that he directed. At the age of 16, she was noticed by Mohamed Aboul Ela, a modestly famous singer, who taught her the old classical repertoire. A few years later, she met the famous composer and oudist Zakariyya Ahmad, who invited her to come to Cairo. Although she made several visits to Cairo in the early 1920s, she waited until 1923 before permanently moving there. She was invited on several occasions to the house of Amin Beh Al Mahdy, who taught her how to play the oud, a type of lute. She developed a very close relationship to Rawheya Al Mahdi, daughter of Amin, and became her closest friend. Kulthum even attended Rawheya's daughter's wedding, although she always tried to avoid public appearances.
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Wadih Safi
Wadih El Safi (Arabic: وديع الصافي, Classical Syriac: ܘܕܝܥ ܐܠܨܦܝ) (born Wadi' Francis in Niha, Lebanon, in 1921) is a Lebanese singer songwriter, and actor. He is a Lebanese cultural icon, and is often called the "Voice of Lebanon". Wadih El Safi started his artistic journey at the age of seventeen when he took part in a singing contest held by Lebanese Radio and was chosen the winner among fifty other competitors.
El Safi is a classically trained tenor, having studied at the Beirut National Conservatory of Music. He became nationally known when, at seventeen, he won a vocal competition sponsored by the Lebanese Broadcasting Network. El Safi began composing and performing songs that drew upon his rural upbringing and love of traditional melodies, blended with an urban sound, and creating a new style of modernized Lebanese folk music. He performed in venues throughout the Middle East.
In 1947, El Safi traveled to Brazil, where he remained until 1950. After his return to Lebanon, El Safi continued to develop folk music and chose poetry and zajal to inspire patriotism and focus on love, devotion, morals and values.
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Warda Al-Jazairia
Warda Al-Jazairia (Arabic: وردة الجزائرية meaning literraly The Algerian Rose), commonly referred to as just Warda (Arabic: وردة, IPA: [ˈwæɾdæ]) ( 22 July 1939 – May 17, 2012) was an Algerian singer. She is well known for her panarabic songs and music.
Warda was born on July 17, 1939 in Puteaux, France, to a Lebanese mother and an Algerian father. She started singing at the age of eleven in 1951. She quickly became well known for her singing of patriotic Algerian songs. When she married in 1962, however, her husband forbade her to sing. In 1972, Algerian president Houari Boumédienne asked her to sing to commemorate Algeria's independence, and she performed with an Egyptian orchestra. As a result her marriage broke up, and she dedicated her life to music.
She then moved to Egypt, where she married the composer Baligh Hamdi. She performed many of his songs and those of other Arabic composers, quickly rising to fame and releasing several albums per year. Additionally, she has starred in a few films.
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Yara
Carla Nazih Berkachi (Arabic: كارلا نزيه البرقاشي) (born June 1, 1983), commonly known as Yara (Arabic: يارا), is a female Lebanese pop singer. Yara was discovered by Lebanese composer Tarek Abou Jaoudeh. Yara started her musical career with the ballad "Hob Kbeer". in 2006, Yara joined Fadel Shakir in a duet called "khedni ma'ak" which was written by Tarek Abou Jaoudeh. In 2009 she joined Jean-Marie Riachi for the album Belaaks with the song "Shefto min biid" ("I Saw Him") in Lebanese dialect.
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Zakariyya Ahmad
Zakariyya Ahmad (1896 - 1961 in Egypt; Arabic: زكريا أحمد) was an Egyptian musician and composer. He composed many pieces in a traditional Egyptian folk style. His works include solo pieces and film scores, and he composed for Umm Kulthum beginning with a taqtuqa written in 1925.
His father was Egyptian and his mother was Turkish.
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Ziad Rahbani
Ziad Rahbani (also Ziyad al-Rahbany Arabic: زياد الرحباني, born 1956) is a Lebanese composer, pianist, performer, playwright, and political commentator. His compositions are well-known throughout the Arab world. Many of his musicals satirize Lebanese politics both during and after the civil war, and are often strongly critical of the traditional political establishment.
Ziad Rahbani is the son of the Lebanese famous composer Assi Rahbani and Nouhad Haddad, the famous Lebanese female singer known as Fairuz. Rahbani was married to Dalal Karam, with whom he has a boy named "Assi" but was later found out not to be his biological son. Their relationship later ended in divorce, prompting Karam to write a series of articles for the gossip magazine Ashabaka about their marriage. Rahbani composed a number of songs about their relationship, including "Marba el Dalal" and "Bisaraha".
On Friday April 3, 2009, the Lebanese press reported that Rahbani filed a lawsuit with the Lebanese courts, asking to disown his son, Assi Rahbani Jr., and stripping him of the Rahbani name on all official records, and voiding any legal obligation towards him as a father, after DNA tests proved that Assi Jr. is not his son. Rahbani has also had a well-publicized relationship with actress Carmen Lebbos, which lasted for 15 years before the couple agreed to separate.
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اسمهان اغنية ليالي الانس Asmahane Layali Vienna Arabic clip
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- Duration: 9:35
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
Date of Birth 18 November 1918 Date of Death 14 July 1944, Egypt (road accident) Birth Name Amal Al Atrach Mini Biography A very talented singer with a beautiful voice. She starred in two films, the first, Intisar al-chabab (1941), was with her older brother 'Farid Al Atrach' and the second Gharam wa intiqam (1944). Asmahane died in a car accident while filming 'Gharam wa intiqam', it is rumoured, through the war between the secret services in Cairo during World War II. IMDb Mini Biography By: adriano_r Spouse Hasan Al Atrache (1933 - 1939) (divorced) 1 child Trivia Sister of singer, composer and actor Farid Al Atrache. She was married to her cousin Prince Hasan Al Atrache and they had one daughter named Camilla. She and her brother Farid shared the same musical interests and their mother encouraged them to sing at parties and weddings.
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Date of Birth 18 November 1918 Date of Death 14 July 1944, Egypt (road accident) Birth Name Amal Al Atrach Mini Biography A very talented singer with a beautiful voice. She starred in two films, the first, Intisar al-chabab (1941), was with her older brother 'Farid Al Atrach' and the second Gharam wa intiqam (1944). Asmahane died in a car accident while filming 'Gharam wa intiqam', it is rumoured, through the war between the secret services in Cairo during World War II. IMDb Mini Biography By: adriano_r Spouse Hasan Al Atrache (1933 - 1939) (divorced) 1 child Trivia Sister of singer, composer and actor Farid Al Atrache. She was married to her cousin Prince Hasan Al Atrache and they had one daughter named Camilla. She and her brother Farid shared the same musical interests and their mother encouraged them to sing at parties and weddings.
يا حبيبي تعال الحقني
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Asmahan- ya habibi taala elhaani
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Asmahan - Dakhalti Marrah
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- Duration: 5:19
- Updated: 25 Nov 2012
Asmahan's song, Dakhalti Marrah. Enjoy. =] Please have a look at my other video: : www.youtube.com
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Asmahan's song, Dakhalti Marrah. Enjoy. =] Please have a look at my other video: : www.youtube.com
- published: 25 May 2009
- views: 98489
- author: İpek Taşkır
Asmahan - El Ward (أسمهان - يا بدع الورد)
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- Duration: 5:33
- Updated: 12 Dec 2012
One of the most beautiful songs for the great Arab performer Asmahan with flowers photos of my own shooting in Montreal and Toronto.
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One of the most beautiful songs for the great Arab performer Asmahan with flowers photos of my own shooting in Montreal and Toronto.
- published: 28 Aug 2010
- views: 38996
- author: Hisham Qaddomi
Asmahan, Reghe3telak ya habibi
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- Duration: 6:29
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Reghe3telak ya habibi, Asmahan, Amal Al atrash
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Reghe3telak ya habibi, Asmahan, Amal Al atrash
- published: 24 Nov 2008
- views: 28450
- author: Nidal Abi Rafeh
Asmahan Show - EL ENAB- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
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- Duration: 8:30
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Asmahan Show - EL ENAB- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
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Asmahan Show - EL ENAB- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 279253
- author: Asmahan Show
Asmahan's Masterpiece - Ya Touyour تحفة أسمهان - يا طيور
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- Duration: 6:47
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
Asmahan - O Birds O birds Sing of my love and chant my passion and hopes To the one who is right beside me not paying attention to what's happening to me (ie in her love) I complain to him and he smiles and makes me grow fonder of him O birds Describe him my state of sleeplessness and...
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Asmahan - O Birds O birds Sing of my love and chant my passion and hopes To the one who is right beside me not paying attention to what's happening to me (ie in her love) I complain to him and he smiles and makes me grow fonder of him O birds Describe him my state of sleeplessness and...
- published: 25 Sep 2010
- views: 116837
- author: Oum Kalthoum
Asmahan - Ayoha na'emo اسمهان - ايها النائم
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- Duration: 5:56
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
Lyrics: Ahmad Fathi Composer: Riad Sombati Asmahane Ayouha Na2em Na2im Ismahan Ismahane Asmahan Tarab
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Lyrics: Ahmad Fathi Composer: Riad Sombati Asmahane Ayouha Na2em Na2im Ismahan Ismahane Asmahan Tarab
- published: 26 Mar 2008
- views: 204540
- author: ffan49
Asmahan Emta Ha Teraf
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- Duration: 5:20
- Updated: 09 Dec 2012
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Layali Al onns fi vienna(Asmahan)اسمهان, اغنية ليالي الانس
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- Duration: 10:40
- Updated: 14 Dec 2012
Asmahan,Das Lied heisst frohe Nächte in Wien
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Asmahan,Das Lied heisst frohe Nächte in Wien
- published: 29 Jul 2008
- views: 259517
- author: WalidBerlin
Shopping with Asmahan and Anna in Marrakech, Morocco
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- Duration: 7:30
- Updated: 26 Nov 2012
This video documents a spontaneous shopping trip with Asmahan and Anna. Instead of taking the hotel bus to town it's decided to take a taxi. Since Asmahan is the only who knows how to speak in Arabic it's unclear whether she is requesting where to go or if the tax driver decides. We go to what looks like a Moroccan department store (an escalator even!) and then have a delicious lunch at a street café. We then drive to a different part of town and visit a Berber pharmacy, stop to buy water (for one fifth the prince of what it is sold at the hotel) and then head back to the hotel. There will be a ritual at the opening ceremonies this night called in " Hadra", (In Egypt- " Zaar") See the next video on GildedSerpent.com for that experience!
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This video documents a spontaneous shopping trip with Asmahan and Anna. Instead of taking the hotel bus to town it's decided to take a taxi. Since Asmahan is the only who knows how to speak in Arabic it's unclear whether she is requesting where to go or if the tax driver decides. We go to what looks like a Moroccan department store (an escalator even!) and then have a delicious lunch at a street café. We then drive to a different part of town and visit a Berber pharmacy, stop to buy water (for one fifth the prince of what it is sold at the hotel) and then head back to the hotel. There will be a ritual at the opening ceremonies this night called in " Hadra", (In Egypt- " Zaar") See the next video on GildedSerpent.com for that experience!
- published: 23 Jul 2011
- views: 5057
- author: lynetteserpent
Asmahan أسمهان - Yalli Hawak (1941)
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- Duration: 4:46
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
Asmahan - The Golden Voice. (1918-1944)
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Layaly al-Ons fi Vienna (Asmahan)
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- Duration: 9:23
- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
Asmahan performs Layaly al-Ons fi Vienna.
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Asmahan - Belly Dance Party - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco
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- Duration: 10:42
- Updated: 12 Dec 2012
Asmahan - Belly Dance Party - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco www.bellydancefestival.net
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Asmahan - Belly Dance Party - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco www.bellydancefestival.net
- published: 22 Jan 2012
- views: 48616
- author: mediterraneandelight
Asmahan of Cairo
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- Duration: 3:53
- Updated: 28 Sep 2012
Bellydancer Asmahan (Argentinian dancer working in Cairo) wows us with her fantastic show on the Nile Maxin in Cairo. Asmahan is famed for her lavish stage shows and I recommend that tourists to Cairo go and see her. Other famous dancers like Randa & Dina don't dance until 4am, Asmahan danced at a much more reasonable time and is more accessible to the non-bellydance western audience. plus, the food was excellent!
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Bellydancer Asmahan (Argentinian dancer working in Cairo) wows us with her fantastic show on the Nile Maxin in Cairo. Asmahan is famed for her lavish stage shows and I recommend that tourists to Cairo go and see her. Other famous dancers like Randa & Dina don't dance until 4am, Asmahan danced at a much more reasonable time and is more accessible to the non-bellydance western audience. plus, the food was excellent!
- published: 21 May 2007
- views: 114859
- author: nourabellydancer
Arabic Clip Asmahan Ya min yeqhol Ahwa
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- Duration: 4:51
- Updated: 05 Dec 2012
Asmahan (أسمهان), de son vrai nom Amal El Atrach (Musulmane Druze, née en novembre 1918 sur un bateau grec et décédée en 1944 en Egypte) est une chanteuse,cantatrice et actrice syrienne. Elle est la sœur de Farid El Atrache.
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Asmahan (أسمهان), de son vrai nom Amal El Atrach (Musulmane Druze, née en novembre 1918 sur un bateau grec et décédée en 1944 en Egypte) est une chanteuse,cantatrice et actrice syrienne. Elle est la sœur de Farid El Atrache.
- published: 19 Jun 2009
- views: 60375
- author: davids1262000
Asmahan of Cairo Entrance with wings
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- Duration: 5:29
- Updated: 20 Nov 2012
Asmahan performing belly dance entrance piece with wings. Feb 2009 Nile Maxim Boat in Cairo.
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Asmahan performing belly dance entrance piece with wings. Feb 2009 Nile Maxim Boat in Cairo.
- published: 17 May 2009
- views: 105586
- author: Aleya Cairo Bellydance
Asmahan - Ahwa (La beauté du monde) - Melynga
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:17
- Updated: 02 Nov 2012
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Melynga - (Re)Discover the best World Music For You - Melynga is your channel for all the best reggae music and (World)African music. Find your favorite songs and artists and experience the best of world music and reggae music. Subscribe for free to stay connected to our channel and easily access our video updates! - Melynga: www.youtube.com
- published: 04 May 2012
- views: 1154
- author: Melynga
Asmahan - Layali elouns.wmv
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 11:09
- Updated: 04 Dec 2012
Artiste : Asmahan Album : Les Éternels
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Artiste : Asmahan Album : Les Éternels
- published: 21 Aug 2011
- views: 5486
- author: majdijoubir14012011
Asmahan Drum Solo Part 1, Opening Gala of Nile Group Festival, Cairo, Egypt
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:35
- Updated: 30 Jul 2012
Kleiw Bellydance on Facebook: www.facebook.com Asmahan Drum Solo at Opening Gala of Nile Group Festival, Cairo, Egypt
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Kleiw Bellydance on Facebook: www.facebook.com Asmahan Drum Solo at Opening Gala of Nile Group Festival, Cairo, Egypt
- published: 18 Jan 2012
- views: 1866
- author: klitoraks
Asmahan songs, Ayoha Naimo. asmahan2000 أسمهان
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:02
- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
asmahan
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Going Under - Princess Asmahan Al Atrash
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:29
- Updated: 02 Aug 2012
*I don't own any of the material used in this video. It is purely fan made, and I have no association with the producers of any of this material.* Please comment. :3 This video was made for Princess Amal "Asmahan" Al Atrash. Music Used: For the first part, I used "Going Under" by Evanessence. And for the last part, I used the ending music from "The Asmahan Series" Video Clips: Scenes from "The Asmahan Series", and various clips from Asmahan's old movies ("Intissar el Shabaab" and "Gharam wa Intiqaam")
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*I don't own any of the material used in this video. It is purely fan made, and I have no association with the producers of any of this material.* Please comment. :3 This video was made for Princess Amal "Asmahan" Al Atrash. Music Used: For the first part, I used "Going Under" by Evanessence. And for the last part, I used the ending music from "The Asmahan Series" Video Clips: Scenes from "The Asmahan Series", and various clips from Asmahan's old movies ("Intissar el Shabaab" and "Gharam wa Intiqaam")
- published: 01 May 2010
- views: 7017
- author: İpek Taşkır
Asmahan ,Belly dancer
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:54
- Updated: 01 Sep 2012
Asmahan ,Belly dancer from Egypt !
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Asmahan of Tunisia in live,tarab,June 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:41
- Updated: 28 Oct 2012
Improvisation of Asmahan on "Lessa Faker",Oum Kalsoum,with a band in live in Tunisia.June 2012.
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Improvisation of Asmahan on "Lessa Faker",Oum Kalsoum,with a band in live in Tunisia.June 2012.
- published: 14 Oct 2012
- views: 201
- author: AsmahanTunisia
ya 7abebe ta3ala (asmahan) By Mary Manassa Live
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:35
- Updated: 04 Jun 2011
ya 7abebe ta3ala (asmahan) By Mary Manassa Live Mary Manassa Live Concert 30/09/2009
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ya 7abebe ta3ala (asmahan) By Mary Manassa Live Mary Manassa Live Concert 30/09/2009
- published: 05 Oct 2009
- views: 842
- author: metalary
Asmahan of Tunisia,live,"Set El Hossen" ,June 2012
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:29
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
Asmahan performing "Set el Hossen" in live with a band,in a five star.Improvisation.June 2012.Tunsisia.
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Asmahan performing "Set el Hossen" in live with a band,in a five star.Improvisation.June 2012.Tunsisia.
- published: 15 Oct 2012
- views: 128
- author: AsmahanTunisia
Asmahan Belly Dancer improvisation baladi january 2010.
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:00
- Updated: 21 Aug 2012
Asmahan of Tunisia professional belly dancer performing in live with a band
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Asmahan of Tunisia professional belly dancer performing in live with a band
- published: 03 Dec 2011
- views: 197311
- author: AsmahanTunisia
Asmahan Belly Dancer Tunisia sept 2011
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:28
- Updated: 04 May 2012
Asmahan of Tunisia performing in live in a five stars with silk veils
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Asmahan of Tunisia performing in live in a five stars with silk veils
- published: 03 Dec 2011
- views: 6760
- author: AsmahanTunisia
Asmahan Show - EL ENAB- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 8:30
- Updated: 13 Dec 2012
Asmahan Show - EL ENAB- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
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Asmahan Show - EL ENAB- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 279253
- author: Asmahan Show
Asmahan Belly Dancer,Sept 2008,performing on Tunisian TV
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:20
- Updated: 15 Oct 2012
Asmahan of Tunisia invited to dance in a TV program on the First Tunisian channel,in September 2008.Total improvisation in live.Music: "Ya taxi el gharam".
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Asmahan of Tunisia invited to dance in a TV program on the First Tunisian channel,in September 2008.Total improvisation in live.Music: "Ya taxi el gharam".
- published: 06 May 2012
- views: 764
- author: AsmahanTunisia
Asmahan @ shimmy in the city after party @ ashtar
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:12
- Updated: 24 Sep 2012
Amazing performance too live music.
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Asmahan - party Belly Dance - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:42
- Updated: 11 Dec 2012
Asmahan - party Belly Dance - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco www.bellydancefestival.net
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Asmahan - party Belly Dance - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco www.bellydancefestival.net
- published: 21 Jan 2012
- views: 3442
- author: avihass
Asmahan Show - solo darbuka- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:26
- Updated: 27 Nov 2012
Asmahan Show - solo darbuka- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
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Asmahan Show - solo darbuka- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 3990
- author: Asmahan Show
Layaly al-Ons fi Vienna (Asmahan)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:23
- Updated: 07 Dec 2012
Asmahan performs Layaly al-Ons fi Vienna.
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Asmahan amazing hair swinging
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:14
- Updated: 27 Sep 2011
Amazing hair swinging
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Asmahan - Drum Solo - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 10:01
- Updated: 01 Nov 2012
Asmahan - Drum Solo - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco www.bellydancefestival.net
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Asmahan - Drum Solo - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco www.bellydancefestival.net
- published: 15 Jan 2012
- views: 5064
- author: mediterraneandelight
SONIA ASMAHAN dances Tanoura in Egypt
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:53
- Updated: 25 Aug 2010
Live Performance of Sonia Asmahan in Egypt 1992 Giftun Show with the Egyptian Choreographers Hoda Ibrahim, Tamer Yehya and Assam Scharara ,
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Live Performance of Sonia Asmahan in Egypt 1992 Giftun Show with the Egyptian Choreographers Hoda Ibrahim, Tamer Yehya and Assam Scharara ,
- published: 29 Apr 2010
- views: 701
- author: SoniaAsmahan
Asmahan.Isme3 El Boulboul Yeghini.أسمهان
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 6:33
- Updated: 10 Aug 2012
L´une des premières chansons de la princesse Asmahan.Elle était encore adolescente. Poème Youssef Bedrous. Musique Mohamed Alkassabdji. Vivante,elle fut une légende.Morte,elle est devenue un mythe. Elle fut véritablement une étoile filante.
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L´une des premières chansons de la princesse Asmahan.Elle était encore adolescente. Poème Youssef Bedrous. Musique Mohamed Alkassabdji. Vivante,elle fut une légende.Morte,elle est devenue un mythe. Elle fut véritablement une étoile filante.
- published: 28 Jun 2011
- views: 1458
- author: 1800marengo
Asmahan Alkarjosli KIDS show KING FAHAD ACADEMY GIRLS MBC
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 18:46
- Updated: 11 Nov 2012
Asmahan Alkarjosli MBC Kids show
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Asmahan @ shimmy in the city after party @ ashtar .
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:35
- Updated: 27 Sep 2011
Amazing performance to live music..
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Zikrayat Performs 'Ya Bideh El Ward' -- Live at Le Poisson Rouge!
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 7:21
- Updated: 26 Aug 2010
NYC's Arabic Music and Dance ensemble Zikrayat, featuring special guest vocalist Salma Marjieh performs the Asmahan classic 'Ya Bideh El Ward' live at Le Poisson Rouge in January 2010. Musicians include: Sami Shumays, violin, Umut Yasmut, kanoun, Tareq Abboushi, buzuq, Apostolos Sideris, upright bass, Rami El Asser, frame drum/backing percussion, Johnny Farraj, riqq, Faisal Zedan, tabla.
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NYC's Arabic Music and Dance ensemble Zikrayat, featuring special guest vocalist Salma Marjieh performs the Asmahan classic 'Ya Bideh El Ward' live at Le Poisson Rouge in January 2010. Musicians include: Sami Shumays, violin, Umut Yasmut, kanoun, Tareq Abboushi, buzuq, Apostolos Sideris, upright bass, Rami El Asser, frame drum/backing percussion, Johnny Farraj, riqq, Faisal Zedan, tabla.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 652
- author: zikrayatmusic
Asmahan ya habibi taala - اسمهان يا حبيبي تعالى
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 5:35
- Updated: 03 Dec 2012
Asmahan Ya habibi t'ala
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Asmahan - Layali L'ons - אסמהאן
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 9:35
- Updated: 01 Dec 2012
איסמהאן-לייאלי אל אונאס www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
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איסמהאן-לייאלי אל אונאס www.youtube.com www.youtube.com www.youtube.com
- published: 30 Jan 2011
- views: 20181
- author: eli28isr
Hiba and Zeid - "Dakhalt Marra Fi Ginena" Live @ Act for the Disappeared (September 3, 2010)
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 4:40
- Updated: 21 Oct 2012
After a year of absence, Hiba Mansouri takes to the stage once again with Zeid Hamdan performing modernized adaptions of Arab classics. This would be their version of "Dakhalt Marra Fi Ginena" by Asmahan.
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After a year of absence, Hiba Mansouri takes to the stage once again with Zeid Hamdan performing modernized adaptions of Arab classics. This would be their version of "Dakhalt Marra Fi Ginena" by Asmahan.
- published: 07 Sep 2010
- views: 1706
- author: ElephantStealth
Najwa Karam - Layali El Ons Fi Vienna
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:43
- Updated: 13 Aug 2012
Najwa Karam is singing"Layali El Ons Fi Vienna" from Asmahan. Her Voice is wonderful
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Najwa Karam is singing"Layali El Ons Fi Vienna" from Asmahan. Her Voice is wonderful
- published: 30 May 2009
- views: 7861
- author: Najwa Karam
Asmahan with Sherry Mizrahi male belly dancer in Mediterranean Delight Festival, Loutraki, Greece
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 0:48
- Updated: 12 Sep 2012
Asmahan with Sherry Mizrahi male belly dancer in Mediterranean Delight Festival, Loutraki, Greece Video clip filmed and edited :Sherry mizrahi male bellydancer
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Asmahan with Sherry Mizrahi male belly dancer in Mediterranean Delight Festival, Loutraki, Greece Video clip filmed and edited :Sherry mizrahi male bellydancer
- published: 14 Jun 2012
- views: 648
- author: DVD20000
9:41
Asmahan of Tunisia in live,tarab,June 2012
Improvisation of Asmahan on "Lessa Faker",Oum Kalsoum,with a band in live in Tunisia.June ...
published: 14 Oct 2012
author: AsmahanTunisia
Asmahan of Tunisia in live,tarab,June 2012
Improvisation of Asmahan on "Lessa Faker",Oum Kalsoum,with a band in live in Tunisia.June 2012.
- published: 14 Oct 2012
- views: 201
- author: AsmahanTunisia
5:35
ya 7abebe ta3ala (asmahan) By Mary Manassa Live
ya 7abebe ta3ala (asmahan) By Mary Manassa Live Mary Manassa Live Concert 30/09/2009...
published: 05 Oct 2009
author: metalary
ya 7abebe ta3ala (asmahan) By Mary Manassa Live
ya 7abebe ta3ala (asmahan) By Mary Manassa Live Mary Manassa Live Concert 30/09/2009
- published: 05 Oct 2009
- views: 842
- author: metalary
6:29
Asmahan of Tunisia,live,"Set El Hossen" ,June 2012
Asmahan performing "Set el Hossen" in live with a band,in a five star.Improvisation.June 2...
published: 15 Oct 2012
author: AsmahanTunisia
Asmahan of Tunisia,live,"Set El Hossen" ,June 2012
Asmahan performing "Set el Hossen" in live with a band,in a five star.Improvisation.June 2012.Tunsisia.
- published: 15 Oct 2012
- views: 128
- author: AsmahanTunisia
7:00
Asmahan Belly Dancer improvisation baladi january 2010.
Asmahan of Tunisia professional belly dancer performing in live with a band...
published: 03 Dec 2011
author: AsmahanTunisia
Asmahan Belly Dancer improvisation baladi january 2010.
Asmahan of Tunisia professional belly dancer performing in live with a band
- published: 03 Dec 2011
- views: 197311
- author: AsmahanTunisia
6:28
Asmahan Belly Dancer Tunisia sept 2011
Asmahan of Tunisia performing in live in a five stars with silk veils...
published: 03 Dec 2011
author: AsmahanTunisia
Asmahan Belly Dancer Tunisia sept 2011
Asmahan of Tunisia performing in live in a five stars with silk veils
- published: 03 Dec 2011
- views: 6760
- author: AsmahanTunisia
8:30
Asmahan Show - EL ENAB- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
Asmahan Show - EL ENAB- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech...
published: 13 Aug 2011
author: Asmahan Show
Asmahan Show - EL ENAB- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
Asmahan Show - EL ENAB- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 279253
- author: Asmahan Show
4:20
Asmahan Belly Dancer,Sept 2008,performing on Tunisian TV
Asmahan of Tunisia invited to dance in a TV program on the First Tunisian channel,in Septe...
published: 06 May 2012
author: AsmahanTunisia
Asmahan Belly Dancer,Sept 2008,performing on Tunisian TV
Asmahan of Tunisia invited to dance in a TV program on the First Tunisian channel,in September 2008.Total improvisation in live.Music: "Ya taxi el gharam".
- published: 06 May 2012
- views: 764
- author: AsmahanTunisia
1:12
Asmahan @ shimmy in the city after party @ ashtar
Amazing performance too live music....
published: 27 Sep 2011
author: Behiye Binnaz
Asmahan @ shimmy in the city after party @ ashtar
Amazing performance too live music.
- published: 27 Sep 2011
- views: 237
- author: Behiye Binnaz
10:42
Asmahan - party Belly Dance - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco
Asmahan - party Belly Dance - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco www....
published: 21 Jan 2012
author: avihass
Asmahan - party Belly Dance - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco
Asmahan - party Belly Dance - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco www.bellydancefestival.net
- published: 21 Jan 2012
- views: 3442
- author: avihass
6:26
Asmahan Show - solo darbuka- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
Asmahan Show - solo darbuka- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech...
published: 13 Aug 2011
author: Asmahan Show
Asmahan Show - solo darbuka- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
Asmahan Show - solo darbuka- Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011 - Morocco Marrakech
- published: 13 Aug 2011
- views: 3990
- author: Asmahan Show
1:14
Asmahan amazing hair swinging
Amazing hair swinging...
published: 27 Sep 2011
author: Behiye Binnaz
Asmahan amazing hair swinging
Amazing hair swinging
- published: 27 Sep 2011
- views: 212
- author: Behiye Binnaz
10:01
Asmahan - Drum Solo - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco
Asmahan - Drum Solo - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco www.bellydan...
published: 15 Jan 2012
author: mediterraneandelight
Asmahan - Drum Solo - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco
Asmahan - Drum Solo - Mediterranean Delight Festival 2011- Marrakech, Morocco www.bellydancefestival.net
- published: 15 Jan 2012
- views: 5064
- author: mediterraneandelight
6:53
SONIA ASMAHAN dances Tanoura in Egypt
Live Performance of Sonia Asmahan in Egypt 1992 Giftun Show with the Egyptian Choreographe...
published: 29 Apr 2010
author: SoniaAsmahan
SONIA ASMAHAN dances Tanoura in Egypt
Live Performance of Sonia Asmahan in Egypt 1992 Giftun Show with the Egyptian Choreographers Hoda Ibrahim, Tamer Yehya and Assam Scharara ,
- published: 29 Apr 2010
- views: 701
- author: SoniaAsmahan
Vimeo results:
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Asmahan (2005)
"Unlike most cinephiles, I've never been interested in the cult of the actress - or actor ...
published: 13 Apr 2011
author: Hisham Bizri
Asmahan (2005)
"Unlike most cinephiles, I've never been interested in the cult of the actress - or actor - until Hisham Bizri rendered actress-fascination palpable, even for me, in his "Asmahan". Reediting a 1944 Egyptian film starring this liberated-for-her-era Syrian actress-singer to center his 21-minute film poem around her, Bizri replaces the original narrative with sequences that show her gestures, or suggest the actress's life. Sometimes she seems passively acted upon, but more often she appears to stage-manage the action, the universe seeming to revolve around her. Bizri's work is an obsessive fever-dream not of a movie narrative but of an actress's presence; as in his great predecessor, Joseph Cornell's Rose Hobart, his actress is presented as a world in herself, with a cosmos of both varied emotions and varying degrees of inscrutability contained in her face. Brief cutaways to animals and night in part pay homage to the surrealist heritage that influenced Cornell, but are also a testimony to Asmahan's magic as a generator of dreams."
Fred Camper, Chicago, June 13, 2006
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Asmahan Campaign
Teaser and Promotion for the biographical series aired on ART Hikayat Channel.
Teaser: Re...
published: 04 Apr 2010
author: Ghadeer AlHmoud
Asmahan Campaign
Teaser and Promotion for the biographical series aired on ART Hikayat Channel.
Teaser: Reflects how the famous 1940s singer "Asmahan" made her way to the top, without revealing her fate as she reaches the peak.
Promo: exposing certain parts of her as she is singing one of her songs, she then flashbacks to a series of events in her life.
Credits: Amr Abdel Hadi
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Asmahan Belly dance 1
Asmahan the lighting star of tunisian belly dance...
published: 04 Sep 2011
author: faihdneb
Asmahan Belly dance 1
Asmahan the lighting star of tunisian belly dance
Youtube results:
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Asmahan.Isme3 El Boulboul Yeghini.أسمهان
L´une des premières chansons de la princesse Asmahan.Elle était encore adolescente. Poème ...
published: 28 Jun 2011
author: 1800marengo
Asmahan.Isme3 El Boulboul Yeghini.أسمهان
L´une des premières chansons de la princesse Asmahan.Elle était encore adolescente. Poème Youssef Bedrous. Musique Mohamed Alkassabdji. Vivante,elle fut une légende.Morte,elle est devenue un mythe. Elle fut véritablement une étoile filante.
- published: 28 Jun 2011
- views: 1458
- author: 1800marengo
18:46
Asmahan Alkarjosli KIDS show KING FAHAD ACADEMY GIRLS MBC
Asmahan Alkarjosli MBC Kids show...
published: 23 Mar 2012
author: Asmahan Alkarjosli
Asmahan Alkarjosli KIDS show KING FAHAD ACADEMY GIRLS MBC
Asmahan Alkarjosli MBC Kids show
- published: 23 Mar 2012
- views: 1134
- author: Asmahan Alkarjosli
1:35
Asmahan @ shimmy in the city after party @ ashtar .
Amazing performance to live music.....
published: 27 Sep 2011
author: Behiye Binnaz
Asmahan @ shimmy in the city after party @ ashtar .
Amazing performance to live music..
- published: 27 Sep 2011
- views: 214
- author: Behiye Binnaz
7:21
Zikrayat Performs 'Ya Bideh El Ward' -- Live at Le Poisson Rouge!
NYC's Arabic Music and Dance ensemble Zikrayat, featuring special guest vocalist Salma Mar...
published: 13 Feb 2010
author: zikrayatmusic
Zikrayat Performs 'Ya Bideh El Ward' -- Live at Le Poisson Rouge!
NYC's Arabic Music and Dance ensemble Zikrayat, featuring special guest vocalist Salma Marjieh performs the Asmahan classic 'Ya Bideh El Ward' live at Le Poisson Rouge in January 2010. Musicians include: Sami Shumays, violin, Umut Yasmut, kanoun, Tareq Abboushi, buzuq, Apostolos Sideris, upright bass, Rami El Asser, frame drum/backing percussion, Johnny Farraj, riqq, Faisal Zedan, tabla.
- published: 13 Feb 2010
- views: 652
- author: zikrayatmusic
photo: AP / Nick Ut
14 Dec 2012
Former President Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, First Lady Michelle Obama, and Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer, meet 55-year-old Martha Sellers. For the past nine years, Sellers has worked as a Walmart cashier in Paramount, California ... More than 10,000 community members joined more than 30 striking employees who walked off the job to demand better working conditions. . "It was wonderful ... That's not too much to ask for." ... 1698 ... ....(size: 23.6Kb)
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14 Dec 2012
More than two dozen people, mostly elementary school children, were shot and killed at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school this morning, federal and state sources tell ABC News. The massacre involved two gunmen at a Connecticut school this morning, prompting the town of Newtown to lock down all of its schools and draw SWAT teams to the school, authorities said today. State Police confirm that one shooter is dead ... at ABCNews.com ... ....(size: 4.5Kb)
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13 Dec 2012
MOSCOW, December 13 (RIA Novosti) – Syrian rebels behind the kidnapping of Ukrainian journalist Ankhar Kochneva have released a video threatening more attacks on Russians and Ukrainians, as a deadline for her execution approaches on Thursday. Kochneva, a 40-year-old Ukrainian citizen, was abducted in October by Syrian rebels as she traveled to the city of Homs, and has been held there by them since, they claim ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
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14 Dec 2012
North Koreans have gathered in Pyongyang for a mass rally to celebrate Wednesday's long-range rocket launch. State television showed huge crowds cheering to mark the launch, which has been condemned by many nations as a banned test of missile technology. South Korea, meanwhile, says it has retrieved debris from the rocket and will study it to assess its technology. The first stage of the rocket fell west of the Korean peninsula ... ....(size: 2.7Kb)
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14 Dec 2012
One of Syria's key allies has admitted for the first time the Assad regime is losing the 20-month ground war. Russia’s deputy foreign minister’s comments are significant because Russia has blocked action to stem the violence, supplied weapons to the Assad regime, and vetoed three UN resolutions -- even as other countries called for Assad to step down. The comments are expected to put new pressure on the Syrian leader ... Reporter ... ... ....(size: 6.6Kb)
Gulf News
11 Oct 2012
Dubai. Al Tayer Motors unveiled the new Range Rover 2013 in Dubai late on Wednesday evening, marking the first regional launch for the car in the UAE ... The starting price for the model is Dh399,000. Article continues below ... Prospective buyer Asmahan Al Mazam, a telecom employee, was looking to switch from her seven-year old Mercedes car to a four-wheel vehicle and the Range Rover was the only one that appealed to her, she said ... 1.. 2.. 3. ... ....(size: 19.1Kb)
Stereogum
26 Sep 2012
It’s been 16 (!) years since Soundgarden’s last studio full-length, so the title of their comeback single is pretty apt. The first full track released off King Animal, “Been Away Too Long,” has a Badmotorfinger-ish groove and a vintage Cornell upper-range vocal ... It rocks hard. Between this and the snippet we got of “Worse Dreams” last month, I’m definitely excited to hear the album in full ... TRACKLIST ... 02 “Non-State Actor” ... Asmahan Hanim ... ....(size: 10.5Kb)
Stereogum
26 Sep 2012
It’s been 16 (!) years since Soundgarden’s last studio full-length, so the title of their comeback single is pretty apt. The first full track released off King Animal, “Been Away Too Long,” has a Badmotorfinger-ish groove and a vintage Cornell upper-range vocal ... It rocks hard ... All King Animal info after the jump. TRACKLIST ... 02 “Non-State Actor” ... Asmahan Hanim . Posted on Sep 27th ... ....(size: 11.6Kb)
Stereogum
04 Sep 2012
Glamorous Danish reverb-rock duo the Raveonettes are one week away from releasing new album Observator, and we’ve already heard early tracks “Observations” and “She Owns The Streets.” Right now, Rolling Stone has a stream of the whole album. To hear it, click here. Observator is out 9/11 on Vice. TweetTags. The Raveonettes . You Might Also Like ... Asmahan Hanim . Posted on Sep 5th ... ....(size: 7.0Kb)
Ha'aretz
28 Aug 2012
The number of young East Jerusalem Palestinians wanting to study in Israeli universities is rising rapidly. As a result, the number of East Jerusalem residents registering for Israeli matriculation exams has risen by an estimated tens of percent, Education Ministry officials say. ... Asmahan Masry-Herzalla, a researcher of the Arab community at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies ... You don't get that with the Tawjihi," he said. ... ....(size: 3.2Kb)
Ha'aretz
28 Aug 2012
The number of young East Jerusalem Palestinians wanting to study in Israeli universities is rising rapidly. As a result, the number of East Jerusalem residents registering for Israeli matriculation exams has risen by tens of percent, Education Ministry officials estimate. ... Asmahan Masry-Herzalla, a researcher of the Arab community at the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies ... You don't get that with the Tawjihi," he said. ... ....(size: 3.3Kb)
Huffington Post
05 Jun 2012
The hijab, the head-covering worn by some Muslim women, has been denounced and defended, legislated for and against. In past months a new front has opened in the battle over the veil. the role of the veil in sport ... Demands to allow veiling on the soccer pitch first emerged in 2007 when an 11-year-old Canadian Muslim Asmahan Mansour, was prevented from playing by the Quebec Soccer Federation after she refused to remove her headscarf ... ....(size: 13.2Kb)
Stereogum
18 May 2012
If the Walkmen were a basketball player, they'd be Tyson Chandler. Charming, erudite, handsome, and smooth, but not flashy or self-aggrandizing. Like Chandler, they bring a fundamental intensity to just about everything they do ... And like Chandler, the Walkmen had to keep working for a long time before it started to dawn on people that they were as good as they are ... You & Me will always be their greatest imo thou Reply Asmahan Hanim ... ....(size: 19.2Kb)
Huffington Post
15 May 2012
For the first time in Gaza, since Hamas seized control in 2007, a woman has been allowed to work as a waitress in a restaurant, serving men food and drinks. Ranad al-Ghozz, 24, from Gaza City recently made local media headlines in Gaza when she began working at the coastal A-Salam restaurant last month ... Twenty-year-old Asmahan Nasser also works as a waitress at the upscale Al-Deira hotel, where she must wear a hijab uniform ... ... ....(size: 3.5Kb)
Screen Daily
13 Apr 2012
Well to do elderly Kuwaiti couple Abou Tareq (veteran actor Saad Al Faraj) and Om Tareq (Asmahan Tawfig) are mortified when they learn their youngest son Ahmed (Adbullah Altararwah) has been influenced by radical teachings and has travelled to Afghanistan to join the Taliban ... Saad Al Faraj, Khalid Ameen, Yassin Ahjam, Asmahan Tawfig, Adbullah ......(size: 7.5Kb)
Gulf News
11 Apr 2012
Manama. A music festival to pay tribute to Arab music giants will be held in Qatar next week. Songs by Um Kalthoom, Abdul Wahab, Laila Murad, and Asmahan among others will feature prominently in the Arab Music Festival, said Hassan Rachid, the head of the festival's organising committee ... "The first musical evening will feature Amal Maher who will sing favorites by Um Kalthoom," he said ... Article continues below ... More from Gulf ... 1....(size: 17.4Kb)
Gulf News
16 Mar 2012
Dubbed ‘Morocco's Asmahan', as her voice resembles the late Arab singer Asmahan (1912-1944), Al Seqelli is as accomplished rendering golden oldies that are part of Arab musical heritage as modern melodies and classical Arabic compositions ... She declared she was just "an apprentice in the school of Asmahan"....(size: 22.4Kb)
The Independent
16 Mar 2012
... Antony and Cleopatra to the Druze spy-vamp Asmahan – had fun amid the fundamentalists....(size: 0.5Kb)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Amal al-Atrash |
| Born | (1912-11-25)25 November 1912 Mediterranean Sea |
| Origin | Suwayda, Syria  |
| Died | 14 July 1944(1944-07-14) (aged 31) Egypt |
| Genres | Arabic music (Egyptian) |
| Occupations | Singer, Actor |
| Associated acts | Farid al-Atrash |
Amal al-Atrash (Arabic: آمال الأطرش Āmāl al-Aṭrash; 25 November 1912 – 14 July 1944),[1] better known by her stage name Asmahan (أسمهان Asmahān), was a Syrian Druze singer and actress. Having immigrated to Egypt in childhood, her family knew the composer Dawood Hosni, and she sang the compositions of Mohamed El Qasabgi and Zakariyya Ahmad.[2][3] She also sang the compositions of Mohammed Abdel Wahab and her brother Farid al-Atrash, a then rising star musician in his own right. Hers was the only female voice in Arab music to pose serious competition to that of Umm Kulthum,[4] who is considered to be one of the Arab world's most distinguished singers of the 20th century.[5] Her mysterious death in an automobile accident shocked the public. Journalists spread gossip about her turbulent personal life and an alleged espionage role in World War II.
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Early life[link]
Asmahan was born to Fahd al-Atrash, a Syrian Druze from Suwayda, and 'Alia al-Mundhir, a Lebanese Druze from Hasbaya.[6] Her father came from the Druze al-Atrash clan, well-known in Syria for its role in fighting against the French occupation.[7]
Asmahan's father is supposed to have served as governor of the district of Demirci in Turkey, during the last days of the Ottoman Empire. Asmahan's father, fled the country with his children and pregnant wife. On November 18, 1912, they embarked on a ship from İzmir to Beirut, and Asmahan was born on board. She was named "Amal", meaning "hopes". She was also called "Emily", but always preferred the name "Amal". After the French came into power, the family went back to Jabal al-druze.[6]
Following the Adham Khanjar incident in 1923, the al-Atrash home in al-Qrayya (town in Jabal al-Druze) was bombed by French forces. 'Alia fled with her children to Damascus. Despite orders from Fahd, 'Alia refused to return.[8] Asmahan later recalled her childhood years in Jabal al-Druze as "untouched by anything truly bad".[9] 'Alia and the three children travelled to Beirut, but, after discovering that the French were searching for them there, they stopped in Haifa in Palestine, and traveled from there to Egypt.[10]
Immigration to Egypt[link]
'Alia chose to immigrate to Cairo, because 'Alia knew that Egypt's then nationalist prime minister Saad Zaghloul and her husband's relative, Sultan al-Atrash were on corresponding terms.[10][11][12] According to family accounts, 'Alia was permitted to enter Egypt under the sponsorship of Saad Zaghloul. Many other Syrians and Lebanese were present in Egypt in this period.
Asmahan and her family first lived in an apartment in a humble section of Cairo. Her mother did laundry and sewing to support the family.[13] She had an excellent voice, could play the `ud, sang at parties and made some recordings. Asmahan and her brothers attended a French Catholic school. In order to receive waivers for the high cost of tuition, 'Alia registered them under the alias Kusah (meaning "zucchini") rather than trying to convince school officials that members of the wealthy[citation needed] al-Atrash family were destitute.[14] 'Alia received a monthly stipend from a secret benefactor rumored to be "Baron" Crane (of the Crane commission) according to one Egyptian journalist. This allowed her to cover the costs of her children's school's tuition, and a nicer apartment on Habib Shalabi Street.[15]
Career[link]
Musical debut[link]
Amal's vocal talent was discovered at an early age. Once, when her brother Farid received one of Egypt's most famous composers, Dawood Hosni, in their home, the latter overheard her singing in her room, and insisted on seeing her immediately. He then asked her to sing again. He was much impressed by the performance, and suggested the stage name of Asmahan to her. Amal began using that name.
Asmahan rose to fame quickly: she was not even fourteen (or seventeen, since her birthdate is disputed) years old when she was introduced to the public at a concert at the prestigious Cairo Opera House.[16][17] She sang and recorded songs composed by Farid Ghosn, Dawood Hosni, Mohamed El Qasabgi, and Zakariyya Ahmad. At sixteen, Asmahan was asked by an Egyptian recording company to register her first album, featuring her first song "Ya Nar Fouadi" by Farid Ghosn.
A variety of teachers advanced her vocal and musical studies. Hosni volunteered to instruct Asmahan on how to play the oud; Qasabgi comments however on the mature level of her sight reading and musicality by the time she performed his work, some years later. However, her brothers wanted her to marry and return to Syria. Her cousin, Hassan al-Atrash traveled to Egypt, intending to propose to a different relative, however, once he saw Asmahan, he pursued her and she returned for at least five and half years to Syria. So her musical career was interrupted.
Egypt's influence[link]
Since Asmahan sang in Egypt, the lyrics of her songs were written in classical Arabic and in a more colloquial Arabic, but she also sang in the Eastern dialect of Arabic. Asmahan was particularly fond of performing songs by Umm Kulthoum and Mohamed Abdel Wahab.[18][19] When asked to sing about cultural patriotism and love, she sang of Egypt."[20] Since singers and studios depended on the elites, Asmahan had to sing songs on uplifting nationalist themes or in praise of the Egyptian royal family.[21] At the beginning of her career she sang in the nightclub owned by Mary Mansour.
Asmahan's older brother, Fuad, and other Druze relatives considered a career in entertainment for a girl to be disgraceful.[16] For them, culturally, "Egypt was a planetary distance from the small villages of the Druze."[22] and it was difficult for her relatives to accept Asmahan's integration into the heterogeneous Egyptian social scene. The clearly defined divisions, along religious lines, of the Syrian countryside did not operate in Egypt. During the period when she was married to her cousin, Hassan, and then later in 1941, when she remarried him and returned to Egypt her musical career came to a standstill. When the marriage first broke up, she left for Egypt immediately, even before she had obtained the bill of divorce.[23] With her return to Egypt and a singing career, she finally repudiated "respectability", leaving both her relatives and Syrian Druze society furious. When her first film, Intisar al-Shabab, was released in Syria, one young Druze shot at the screen when the character played by Asmahan appeared.[23] Asmahan, bi-national or, in contemporary parlance, trans-national by then, had become "a sophisticated foreigner to the young men in the Jabal Druze."[24]
Personal life[link]
In 1933 Asmahan's cousin, Hassan al-Atrash, came to Cairo and proposed marriage, requesting that Asmahan abandon her musical career.[25] She agreed on three conditions: that they live in Damascus rather than Jabal al-Druze, winter in Cairo, and that she would never be required to wear the traditional hijab.[26][27] They married and moved first to al-Era, where the al-Atrash retain a large home, and then built their own home in Suwayda. Asmahan gave birth to her daughter, Kamellia. Eventually, Asmahan missed her career and her life in Cairo;[28] and in 1939, she and Hassan were divorced. In her final confrontation with her cousin at Mena House Hotel in Giza, she told him, "I stood with you for independence and liberation, I did. But, I was created for another purpose. I prefer the work of Farid, and the work of Umm Kulthum, and of art."[29] Thus she returned to Cairo and resumed her singing career, marrying the Egyptian director Ahmed Badrkhan, though they were to divorce soon after.
In 1941 she returned to Syria in a dramatic and secret journey under the auspices of the British. Hassan agreed to meet with her, and used the occasion to entreat her to remarry him. She twice attempted suicide in the period following when they were still married. According to the gossip-mongering journalists this was so that she could obtain a second divorce from Hassan; however it seemed he actually agreed due to her visits to Jerusalem where wild rumors attached to her behavior and overspending. Her third and final marriage was to the Egyptian director Ahmed Salem. The purpose of that marriage was so that she could return to Egypt without difficulties which were said to have been raised by governmental authorities. It is not clear how that would occur, however, and she had an ongoing studio contract in Egypt.
Also in 1941, Asmahan met Mohammed Abdel Wahab, Egypt's most distinguished singer and composer, and she starred with him in his operetta Magnun Layla ("Besotted with Layla").[30] It was Abdel Wahab who introduced her then to the journalist, Mohamed al-Taba'i. Al-Taba'i suggests that she was in love with him, but the tone of his writing indicates that he was in love with her, but did not respect her. He suggests she had affairs or at least an ongoing relationship with the royal chamberlain Ahmed Pasha Hassanein but this might be exaggerated. Her brothers, Fuad and Farid, were no longer able to monitor her movements.[6] Her brother was a noted gambler; she and her friends also partied, smoked, drank and gambled. She became very ill for a period, but recordings show that her voice did not suffer.
Asmahan was proud of her family background,[21] and always mentioned her father and his cousin, Sultan al-Atrash, to clarify her ancestry — once saying to al-Taba'i, after he had just insulted her, "Don't you know who I am? Why I am the daughter of Fahd al-Atrash and cousin to the Amir al-Atrash and the Druze revolutionary hero Sultan al-Atrash, and then you, who amount to no one, come here and insult me?" Al-Taba'i laughed and replied to her that her cousin, the proclaimed Amir, amounted to no more than an alley chief" (شيخ الحارة) in Egypt.[31][32] Al-Taba'i never traveled to Syria, and was unfamiliar and uninterested in the political situation in that country. Al-Taba'i argued that, because she suffered from a chronic "inferiority complex", Asmahan herself propagated these mystifications when referring to her family background.[33] In fact, Sultan al-Atrash was a hero in Syria, and exiled for his role in the revolution and Asmahan's family were the elite Druze clan of that particular area. An al-Atrash was appointed "amir" by the French and Hassan inherited that title, but more importantly served in two governmental administrations, in one of them as Minister of Defense. Asmahan was not a first cousin of Hassan's, but referred to him as "ibn 'ammi" to the Egyptians, in fact, she was his second cousin, twice removed (by generation).[31]
Vocal characteristics[link]
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Known for her wide vocal range, Asmahan's included the contralto and dramatic mezzo-soprano range (as one can hear in her rendition of "Ya Tuyur" where she reaches a high A with ease and brio. Asmahan's voice has been compared to Fairuz and Sabah however, as she began her career more than two decades earlier, she had not in fact, adopted the Italian singing technique known as bel canto, but rather learned singing from many admirable models of her own period and in Egypt where a much more diverse group of singers performed, and at a time when Arabic singing utilized both nasal and chest resonance.
Asmahan's voice was powerful, but also agile. She generally sang in her chest register but could use her head register and sing in a very controlled tone. It is not incorrect to say that she was the first or one of the first Arabic singers to use the classical western technique, also very few performers are able to alternate two different styles of interpretation and technique in one song (western and tarab).[34]
Role in World War II[link]
In 1941, during World War II, Asmahan returned to the French Mandate of Syria (Syria, under the rule of Vichy France at that time) at the request of the British and the Free French. She was on a secret mission to notify her people in Jabal al-Druze that the British and Free French forces would be invading Syria through their territory, and to convince them they should not fight. The British and Free French had promised the independence of Syria and Lebanon to all inhabitants on the date of the invasion. The Druze agreed, even though some groups did not receive word in time and fought the invading forces. After the Allies secured Syria during the Syria-Lebanon Campaign, General Charles de Gaulle visited Syria. When the Allies failed to carry out their promise for Syrian independence, Asmahan tried to contact the Nazis in Turkey, but was stopped at the border and sent to Lebanon. It was also possible that Asmahan needed money because her husband had cut off her expenses, so she may have tried to reach the Germans simply to obtain funds.[26]
Asmahan told Mohamed al-Taba'i that she was to receive the sum of £40,000 from the British for her services to the allies.[35][36][37] General Charles de Gaulle's representative in Cairo was General Georges Catroux. Catroux's délégué in Damascus, Colonel Collet, stated that the British gave money to Asmahan (and to other Druze men, in his presence) and sent her to the Jabal to secure the support of the Druze before the Allies' invasion.[38] The same information is stated by Edward Spears in his memoirs.[39]
Death[link]
On 14 July 1944, a car carrying Asmahan and a female friend crashed and went into a canal at the side of the road, after the driver lost control near the city of Mansoura, Egypt.[26] The car was a two-door model and the women were sitting in the backseat. They were presumed to be rendered unconscious and subsequently drowned. The driver, however, managed to escape.
These circumstances gave rise to many suspicions, rumors and conspiracy theories. British intelligence, for example, after many reports circulated claiming she had been working for them, was accused of having got rid of her after she had attempted to meet with German agents. The German Gestapo was also accused of murdering her for the help she had given the British. Her husband at the time had fought violently with her, and her family's honor had been besmirched by the many rumors.
Asmahan was buried in Egypt in accordance with her wishes[40] as, years later, were her two brothers, Fuad and Farid al-Atrash,[41] in the Fustat plain in Cairo, which she and brother Farid, along with Egyptian crooner Abdel Halim Hafez,[42] had restored to some of its former glory.[43]
Legacy[link]
The Egyptian Media Production City and a private investor jointly produced a television series depicting the life (and death) of Asmahan.[44] The Arabic series debuted during the month of Ramadan in 2008. Asmahan was played by Syrian actress Sulaf Fawakherji.[45]
Discography[link]
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Filmography[link]
- Intissar al-Shabab ("Triumph of the Youth"), 1941
- Gharam wa Intiqam ("Love and Revenge"), 1944
References[link]
- ^ "منزل الفنانة أسمهان بات متحفاً", Al-Mada
- ^ Lebanese Army Journal, Issue Number 241, July 2005
- ^ al-Atrash, Majid (2005), Asmahan: Amirat at-tarab was-saif wan-nada (Asmahan: The princess of music, war and grace) al-'Adyat magazine, p.75–77, in Arabic
- ^ Zuhur 2000, p. 85
- ^ Prominent Egyptians - Egyptian Government State Information Service
- ^ a b c Zuhur 1998, p. 81
- ^ Provence, Michael (2005), The great Syrian revolt and the rise of Arab nationalism (illustrated ed.), University of Texas Press, pp. 72, ISBN 978-0-292-70680-4, http://books.google.com/?id=Ej8ZMk1822sC&pg=PA72&dq=sultan+al+atrash
- ^ Zuhur 2000, pp. 38
- ^ Zuhur 2000, p. 36
- ^ a b Zuhur 2000, pp. 38–39
- ^ Interview with Fuad al-Atrash. Time 4:34.
- ^ Zuhur 2000, p. 39
- ^ Zuhur 2000, p. 41
- ^ Zuhur 2000, pp. 41, 53
- ^ Zuhur 2000, pp. 42, 44
- ^ a b Zuhur 1998, p. 82
- ^ Asmahan's Secrets, quoting Nimat Fuad. p. 73
- ^ Al-Taba'i 2008, p. 82
- ^ Al-Taba'i 2008, p. 26
- ^ Zuhur 2000, p. 216
- ^ a b Zuhur 2000, p. 13
- ^ Zuhur 2000, p. 54
- ^ a b Zuhur 2000, p. 98
- ^ Zuhur 2000, p. 95
- ^ Al-Taba'i 2008, p. 51
- ^ a b c Zuhur 2000
- ^ Steel and Silk by Sami Moubayed. p. 523.
- ^ Zuhur 2000, pp. 69–70
- ^ Zuhur 2000, p. 99
- ^ Baraka, Mohamed. Al-Ahram Weekly. Issue #933. 2009-02-05.
- ^ a b Zuhur 2000, p. 37
- ^ Al-Taba'i 2008, pp. 108–109
- ^ Al-Taba'i 2008, pp. 40–41
- ^ Zuhur
- ^ Al-Taba'i 2008, pp. 142–146
- ^ Zuhur 2000, p. 115
- ^ al-Raida by Beirut University College. Institute for Women's Studies in the Arab World. p. 42.
- ^ Mardam Bey, Salma (1998) Syria's quest for independence, 1939-1945. Ithaca Press. p. 82
- ^ Zuhur
- ^ Zuhur 2000, p. 165
- ^ Classical Arabic Music Website
- ^ Baraka, Mohamed. Al-Ahram Newspaper Article. Issue No. 943, 16 - 22 April 2009.
- ^ El Kadi, Galila and Alain Bonnamy (2007) Architecture for the dead. American University in Cairo Press. p. 96
- ^ al-Thawra Newspaper article
- ^ Daily News Egypt. October 6, 2008
- ^ "Asmahan performs Layaly al-Ons fi Vienna"
Sources[link]
- al-Taba'i, Muhammad (2008), Asmahan Tells Her Story, Dar al-Shorouk Press
- Zuhur, Sherifa (1998), Images of Enchantment: Visual and Performing Arts of the Middle East, American University in Cairo Press, ISBN 977-424-467-2
- Zuhur, Sherifa (2000), Asmahan's Secrets: Woman, War, and Song, University of Texas Press, ISBN 978-0-292-79807-6
- Zuhur, Sherifa (2001), Colors of Enchantment: Theater, Dance, Music and the Visual Arts of the Middle East, American University in Cairo Press, ISBN 977-424-607-1
External links[link]
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- Introduction to Asmahan's Secrets, a biography (ISBN 978-0-292-79807-6)
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| Name | Asmahan |
| Alternative names | al-Atrash, Amal (English real name); آمال الأطرش (Arabic real name); أسمهان (Arabic stage name) |
| Short description | Singer, Actor |
| Date of birth | 25 November 1918 |
| Place of birth | Mediterranean Sea |
| Date of death | 14 July 1944 |
| Place of death | Egypt |
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