Diyala (transliterated from the Arabic ديالى) may refer to:

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Maryam Zakaria (born in Iran) is an Iranian-Swedish actress and model. She has appeared as a model in various music videos and television advertisements, while also establishing the first Bollywood dance school in Sweden and working as a choreographer. By 2009, she moved to India and began appearing in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi films, particularly performing item numbers.

Maryam Zakaria was born in Iran and grew up in Sweden. She worked as a choreographer and established a dance school in Sweden to teach Bollywood steps. According to Zakaria, the Indisk Dans Studio was the first dance school in Sweden to teach "jatkas and matkas of Bollywood cinema". She moved to Mumbai, India by 2009 to work in Bollywood and began working as a model, appearing in various television adverts, the most notable being the adverts of Set Wet and Coke.She also came in Coca Cola Advertisement with Imran Khan

Tamil film director Sundar C. signed her on to perform an item number in his directorial venture Nagaram (2010), after watching her dance number on YouTube. Her performance in the hit number "Diyalo Diyala" from the Telugu film 100% Love was her big breakthrough. She went on to play one of the female lead characters in another Telugu film Madatha Kaja (2011) alongside Allari Naresh. In 2012, she appeared in the item numbers "Dilli Ki Billi" in Muazzam Beg's film Sadda Adda. In the Saif Ali Khan film Agent Vinod she performed a mujra in the song "Dil Mera Muft Ka" alongside Kareena Kapoor.

Djelimady Tounkara is a Malian musician and one of the foremost guitarists in Africa.

Born in the culturally rich town of Kita, west of the Malian capital, Bamako, Djelimady grew up surrounded with traditional music played by members of his family, griots, musicians and historians by birth. Djelimady played djembe drum and ngoni, a banjo-like lute, as a boy. When he moved to Mali's capital, Bamako, during the 1960s, he had actually planned to work as a tailor. But music proved a stronger calling. He started playing guitar in a large, government-sponsored neighborhood band, Orchestre Misira. Voted the best guitarist in the band, Djelimady was selected to join the Orchestre National as rhythm guitarist, a great honor for the young player.

All his adult life, Djelimady has worked to transform his ancestral traditions into dance pop. But at the same time, he has continued to work in more traditional contexts, backing the great griot singers of Mali on records, in concerts and at the day-long wedding and baptism celebrations that are the modern griot's life blood. In recent years, Djelimady has performed in an acoustic trio called Bajourou, accompanied by another masterful griot guitarist, Bouba Sacko, and by singer Lafia Diabate, a veteran of the Rail Band.