for the partition method see SemiEmpirical Energy Based (SEEB).

Seeb As Seeb As Sib
—  Town  —
Seeb Location in Oman
Coordinates: 23°40′49″N 58°10′57″E / 23.68028°N 58.1825°E / 23.68028; 58.1825Coordinates: 23°40′49″N 58°10′57″E / 23.68028°N 58.1825°E / 23.68028; 58.1825
Country	Oman
Region	Masqat
Time zone	+4 (UTC+4)

Seeb, As Seeb or As Sib (Arabic: السيب‎) is a coastal fishing town, located several kilometres northwest of Muscat, in northeastern Oman. It is located at around 23°40′49″N 58°10′57″E / 23.68028°N 58.1825°E / 23.68028; 58.1825. Landmarks include the Naseem Garden, The Amouage Perfumery, the Royal Stables and Equestrian Centre, Royal Guard of Oman Technical College, the Bait al Baraka palace, Seeb International Airport and Markaz al Bahja.^[1]

Sport[link]

Al Seeb Club and Al-Shabab are located in Seeb.

References[link]

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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.^[1][2]

Early life[link]

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.^[3] 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.

Then in 2009, he signed with Mazzika group Alam El Phan.^[4]

He is an endorser of Pepsi, a well-known soft drink around the world.^[5] He was also the "first Arab celebrity" to advertise the Police brand of sunglasses.^[6]

Music career[link]

Hob

In 2004, he released his first studio album with Ahamd Albanna as a solo artist. Titled Hob, the album featured the single "Arrab Habibi". The album was quite a success with his hit, "Arrab Habibi", which was subject to heavy rotation on satellite music channels.

Enayyah Bethebbak

Enayyah Bethebbak (My Eyes Love You) is his second full-length studio album. Released at the end of 2005, the album was produced by Free Music. The album's main hits were "Enayyah Bethebbak" and "Ba'ish". The album was a success in Egypt and the Middle East. After the release of Enayyah Bethebbak.

Ya Bent El-Eih

Ya Bent El-Eh is his third full length studio album. Released in March 2007 by Free Music, the album featured thirteen songs. Nine of them were stolen and leaked on the internet almost a week before it was released to the market. The Egyptian media^[who?] says about this album: "It's a nice album that considered being his first real step in his musical life".^{[citation needed]} The album has seven hits composed and written by him. Four of the songs were used in his film Omar & Salma; "A'reft Elly Feha", 'Ana Walla A'aref", "Sotek" and "Ergaaly".

Arrab Kaman

Hosny released his fourth studio album Arrab Kaman on June 24, 2008. This album has 9 hits composed and written by Tamer Hosny: "Matwasnesh", "Arab Kaman", "Askoty", "Aftkarly", "Ya taabany", "Albi el habak", "Esma wa nasseb", "Heya de", "Roh alby" and "Asaab ahsas". Four songs from Arrab Kaman were used in his movie Captin Hima.

ElGana Fi Byotna

ElGana Fi Byotna is his fifth full length studio album of Islamic and Ramadan-themed songs, released in September 2007 in the same year of Arrab Kaman. He filmed one music video from this album, "Ana Mesh aref atghyar". The album includes 13 tracks; he wrote and composed all 13 songs.

Ha'eesh Hayaty

In 2009 Hosny released his sixth studio album,Ha'esh Hayaty. This was his first studio album recorded under Mohsen Gaber's Alam El Phan label. Ha'esh Hayaty included Hosny's first English-language song, "Come Back to Me". From this album he filmed one music video, Ta'aba Koll El Nas. Yasser Sami, the director of Omar & Salma also directed the music video. The second part includes two songs from the album, "Khontek Embareh and "Bagher aleeha".

Ikhtart Sah

Ikhtart Sah is his seventh studio album released in 2010. This is the second studio album recorded under Mohsen Gaber's Alam El Phan. It was commercially successful and included "Sweet Melody", Hosny's second English song. Tamer Hosny filmed music videos for three of the album's songs, "Saheet ala sotha", "Taarafy" and "Law hakoun gher leek".

Elly Gai Ahla

Elly Gai Ahla (2011) is the 8th studio album by Tamer Hosny. This is the third studio album recorded under Mohsen Gaber's Alam El Phan. From this album Hosny had four music videos: "Elly Gai Ahla" directed by Yasser Sami, "Dayman Ma'ak", "Matsaa'lnesh" featuring Moroccan singer Bassma Boussil and "Aklemha" directed by Hossam L. Hosseiny. Commercially, it was very successful, reaching number one on the Egyptian charts during its first week of release.^{[citation needed]}

Directing career[link]

Tamer Hosny started his first directorial experience in 2010 by directing his music video "Saheet ala sotha". Hosny had always wanted to be a director; he had dreamed of making his own music video.^[7]

Film career[link]

Hosny starred in the 2003 Egyptian movie, Halet Hob (A State of Love).^[8] The movie featured music by Hosny himself. Halet Hob is a modern film addressing the issues of young people in today's Egypt, including family, immigration, work, and love, as well as how Arab immigrants are viewed and treated abroad. When Nour decides to immigrate to France, his wife refuses to go, so they decide to split the family. She stays in Egypt with their son Youssef, and Nour leaves the country with their other child Seif. As time passes, the split family drifts apart. Although many young people are trying to leave Egypt, after facing the reality of anti-Arab sentiment in France, Seif and his Tunisian/French girlfriend decide to return, seeking to find and help his brother with his budding singing career. His goal is not only to reunite with Youssef, but to use art and music as a forum for bringing youth from around the world together and giving a voice to Arabs abroad. There are many obstacles in the way and bringing the family together will not be easy.

The movie Sayed El Atefy^[9] was released in 2005, and featured two songs, "Koll Marra" and "Nour Einy"; both were performed within the movie. The full versions of the songs accompanied the performance in addition to scenes from the movie were made into music videos. They were initially exclusive to Melody Hits channel. The film is about a simple woman called Um Sayed (Abla Kamel) who raises her son after his father dies. She works as a taxi driver and car pickups to face life's burdens. At the same time loving the Al-Ahli Team so much and sponsor her son Sayed (Tamer Hosny), who is facing several problems at the university with his uncle. Um Sayed and friends try to lifting the injustice done to her son in the comic style concert.

At the beginning of June 2007, Hosny released his third movie Omar & Salma with Mai Ezzedine. Omar (Tamer Hosny) is a young man who likes to flirt with all kinds of girls and has never been a serious relationship. That all changes when he meets Salma (Mai Ezz El Din) who totally changes the way he thinks, but their new relationship turns out to be a bumpy ride.

In 2008, he released Captin Hima,^[10] a social comedy about a young man who is crazy about soccer. Hima (Hosny) believes soccer is a panacea for all problems and "plays" hard to achieve his goals and dreams.

In May 2009, he released Omar & Salma 2,^[11] a sequel to the romance comedy. Starring Tamer Hosny and May Ezzeddin, Omar & Salma 2 features a new arrival, Merihan Hussein, a Star Academy 5 contender. May Ezzeddin (Salma) plays the nagging wife, and Tamer Hosny (Omar) a bored husband longing for good old days of bachelorhood. Salma demands that they move because the block where they live is packed with women. So they move to a block inhabited by a widow, a divorcee and a gay man. Omar ends up having an affair with Carma (Merihan Hussein), an employee at his father’s (Ezzat Abu Owf) business. Salma finds out about the affair and the couple almost file for divorce.

In May 2010, he released the movie Noor Einy (The Light of my Eyes). This is a romantic comedy and drama about Ahmad (who uses the stage name Noor), a young music composer Tamer Hosny and a blind girl named Sarah Menna Shalabi and the great love story between them. Sarah breaks up with Noor after a misunderstanding, and she decides to go to America for surgery in order to regain her eyesight. While Noor has to deal with the death of his brother, he has to deal with the fact that Sarah has left him. As she moves on with her life, she falls in love with her doctor Tarek Amro Yousef, who decides to marry her in back Egypt. What she does not know is that Tarek and Noor are childhood friends, and when Noor meets Tarek in the airport he finds out that his friend's fiancee is his love, Sarah. While Sarah thinks that she sees Tarek's friend Ahmad, she doesn't know the fact that it's Noor. Noor ends up facing the heartbreak silently until the events lead up to the discovery of this strange twist of fate.

In December 2011 , Tamer Released his latest Movie " Omar and salma 3" the 3rd part of his movies Omar and Salma , In this part Omar decided to become a rap singer and Salma Refused this , so Salma Forced Omar to get divorced , so both of them started to make a play on each others to teach each others a lesson the message from this movie was social comedy to discuss that the divorce is the not the solution for the marriage problems , the story was written by Tamer Hosny directed by Mohamed Sami. this part achieved a huge success and preside the wills

Drama[link]

During Ramadan 2011, Hosny starred in the television drama Adam. Directed by Mohammad Sami, the drama also featured Dina Fouad, Ahmad Zaher and Mai Izz.and this series achieved Big Success and high views on YouTube and win best series in 2011 in many votes^[12] His next film Omar and Salma 3 is scheduled to release in November during the Eid al-Adha holiday.^[13]

2011 Egyptian revolution[link]

On January 25, 2011, demonstrations spread across Egypt and ultimately forced Hosni Mubarak to cede power to the military. Tamer Hosny was already outside Egypt on a tour of the Netherlands and the United States. He was scheduled to perform many shows. After performing at Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam on 29 January 2011 and hearing the news, he cancelled his tour of Canada and the United States, and flew back immediately.

On February 9, 2011, Hosny appeared on stage at Tahrir Square in Cairo, where the Egyptian protesters had gathered. Protesters grew angry at the sight of him and immediately told him to leave the square as he was not welcome. It was initially unclear what his intended message to the protesters in the square was going to be, but he was later quoted on Al Jazeera television as saying that he wanted to tell the protesters that he had made a mistake, and now supported the protests.^[14]

Tamer Hosny has organized charity activities supporting the families of those killed,^[15] launched a blood donation campaign in Egypt with his fans, and called upon them to donate to the victims of the latest events.

He launched two new songs to mark the events: Good Morning Egypt,^[16] and another in memory of those killed, Martyrs 25 Jan.^[17][18]

Collaborations[link]

Supporting new talents

During two years Tamer Hosny had discovered more than 20 new talents in lyricts and composing, more than 5 new talented singer, more than 10 new talented actors and Mohamed Sami as a Drama and Cinema director "Director of his series Adam",^[19]

"Bokra-Tomorrow" Charity Single

Tamer sang Bokra Tomorrow (A Better You, Better Me) a charity single that was released on 11/11/2011 at 11:11PM, along with Shakira, Rim Banna, Akon, Diana Karazon, Marwan Khoury, Latifa, Souad Massi, Hani Mitwassi, Saber El Roba3i, Kathem El Saher, Wa3ed, Sherine and other Arab Artists. The single will distribute the proceeds of its donations to various organisations, institutions and charities with arts and culture programs. The eight minute song was written by Majida Al-Roumi, and produced by Quincy Jones and RedOne. More information about the song can be found on official website of the song.

New Duet with Shaggy

Tamer Hosny has recorded a new duet song with Shaggy, named "Smile". The song, written and composed by Tamer Hosny, will be distributed all over the world. The music video has been released at the beginning of 2012; the music video was shot in New York City, and it has achieved huge success; it has achieved more than one million views in only 3 days on Youtube, and for this exceptional growth rate, Youtube awarded the music video a trending medal.^[20]

Duet with Snoop Dogg

Tamer Hosny has recorded a new duet song with Snoop Dogg, Named Si L Sayed. It will be released in 2012. Tamer Hosny and Snoop Dogg shot the music video in Los Angeles .

Discography[link]

In addition to:

• Free Mix 2000 (2000)
• Free Mix 3 (2002)
• Free Mix 4 (2005)

Awards[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Tamer Hosny Official website
• Tamer Hosny at the Internet Movie Database
• Tamer Fans
• Tamer Hosny official Facebook fan page
• Tamer Hosny official Google plus

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عمرو مصطفى Amr Mostafa
Background information
Birth name	Amr Mostafa Mohamed Alsayed
Born	(1976-12-30) December 30, 1976 (age 35)
Origin	Cairo, Egypt
Genres	Egyptian Music, Arabic pop music, Pop, Franco Arabic
Occupations	Singer, Composer, Musician
Instruments	Guitar
Years active	1999 – present
Labels	EMI, Alam Al Phan, Melody Music
Website	www.amrmostafa.com

Music videos[link]

Amr shot videos for "Bartah Maak" from his album Ayami directed by Jad Shwery and aired on Melody Arabia music channel, and "Awel Maaol" from the album Alama Fe Hayatek aired on Mazzika Music channel and Spanish TV, and "Law Fi Hayati" a single duet with Orsi Plfum aired on Mazzika music channel and Hungarian TV.

Record labels[link]

Amr's first album was released by Melody Music in 2007; his second album released by Alam Al Phan in 2008, and his mini-album was released by Alam Al Phan in 2009.

Discography[link]

Ayamy[link]

Ayamy^[1] was Amr Mostafa's Debut album, it contained 12 songs, he introduced rock music in 2 songs, The Album was a huge success for Amr, but later, Amr had many disputes with the album producer Gamal Marwan because he sold his melodies outside Egypt without his permission, and that resulted in lackluster sales, airplay, and promotion for Amr’s debut album. But Amr's talent was noticed by people and that helped him a lot in his next album Alama Fi Hyatak.

Alama Fi Hyatak[link]

Alama fi Hayatak is Amr Mostafa's second album in his career, and the album was a huge success not only in Egypt but in the whole Middle East and Europe, The Album was produced and published by Mazzika inside Egypt and by EMI outside Egypt and the Middle East. EMI reported that Alama Fi Hyatak sold more than 200 thousand copies in its first week to be The Ultimate Album Of The Year 2008. In Egypt, the album topped the Virgin Mega Stores best-selling chart for many months and stayed in the chart for more than 2 years. In this album Amr Mostafa dealt with Spanish, Hungarian and Turkish music arrangers to mix between the Arab and Europe music cultures. Alama Fi hyatak is definitely The best arab album in 2008 and the song "Awel Ma Oul" was featured on the album Caribbean 2008 produced by Universal Music and aired on Spanish TV And Radio channels.

Al Kebeer Kebeer[link]

Al Kebeer Kebeer is Amr's third album (mini-album) in his career. At first, Amr composed the song demo for Mustafa Sandal, then he liked it's music so he told Musti he is going to sing it; then he wrote Al Kebeer Kebeer song and sang it using the same music and melody. Amr didn't want to release it as a single so he thought about the idea of releasing a mini-album that would consist of three songs only. He used old melodies on the other 2 songs. The album was nice and had good sales. "Ghaltet Omry" was the most requested song in egyptian radio channels in 2009 even though there were a lot of hits from Amr Diab, Tamer Hosny, Hisham Abbas and other superstars who released albums in the summer of 2009.

Awards[link]

• Best Egyptian Composer for years 2000 and 2002 for "Aktar Wahed Beyhebak", 2003 for "Ana Ayesh", 2004 For "Aweeny Beek", 2005 For "Wemalo". ^[2]
• Amr Diab's Album "Aktar Wahed Beyhebak" Which contains 5 songs composed by Amr Mostafa Won The World Music Award. ^[3]
• Samira Said's Album "Yom Wara Yom" Which contains 5 songs composed by Amr Mostafa Won The World Music Award. ^[4]
• Mohamed Hamaki's song "Ahla Haga Fiki" Composed by Amr Was Awarded by Mobinil as best song in 2006. ^[5]
• Mohamed Hamaki's Album "Kheles El Kalam" Which contained 4 songs composed by Amr Motafa Was awarded by EMI platinium CD of 2006. ^[6]
• Awardeded by Mobinil Music Awards as best composer in 2006. ^[7]
• Hatem Fahmy's Single "Beydo'a Alby" composed By Amr Mostafa was awarded as best song in 2007.
• Amr Diab's Album "El Leila De" which contained 4 songs composed by Amr Mostafa won The World Music Award again. ^[8]
• Amr Mostafa's Album "Ayamy" was awarded by Virgin Megastores Egypt as best selling album in 2007 for 2 months.
• Amr Mostafa's Album "Alama Fe Hayatak" Was Awarded By EMI as The Ultimate Album Of The Year 2008. ^[9]
• Amr Mostafa's Song "Awel Ma Oul" Was featured in Caribbean 2008 which contained the world's best latin music hits in 2008.
• Raquel Camin's Song "Tu Speras Para Mi" Composed by Amr Mostafa Was featured in Disco Estrella 2008 Which contained spain's top 20 hits in 2008.
• Amr Diab's Album "Wayyah" Which contained 4 songs composed by Amr Mostafa won The World Music Award 2009. ^[10]
• Amr Diab's Hit "Wayyah" composed by Amr Mostafa was awarded as best song in Africa by Middle Eeast Music Awards 2009. ^[11]
• The first arab singer to be nominated for the MTV Music Awards as best male singer.
• Loai's Drama Song "Erga'a Ya Zaman" was awarded as best tv song in 2010.

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official Website
• Official page @ facebook
• Official Fans Website
• Official twitter
• Official Youtube channel
• Official Myspace