hey, yeh i heard bout this on a site and i olso heard about mohammed fahed that his parents didnt know he was gonna go om star academy
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ya 7aram it would be fantastic to have a khaliji girl in a program like staracademy
khsara :(
Wish it next year
samra men tounes

yeah it would be a change to have a saudi girl,too bad.

samra what do you mean shes saudi. someday she will be back and become a star you'll see.

there will be a lots of khaliji girls singers and a lots names of samras.

Thanks fetfet for the article i think it would have been a change to see a saudi girl,i dunno when the minds of saudi arabia will be more open but i hope soon,women have rights too and she looks decent as well.

I don't understand why they act like that. For exemple Amani last year she acted with good manner and she was a good exemple for muslim women. I know it's the idea to have boys and girls in the same house it's the big problem. I'm sure that LBC would change that if it was not a franchise and they can't change the rules like that. And it's not just saudi people I heard interview in ART with Iheb taoufik he said that he refuse to partcipate to satarac because it's against his principal that boys and girls stayed in the same house and camera are fliming them sleeping going to the bathroom. Anyway I think it's very hard to make everybody happy and I hope that one day we see starac with many contestants from all the arabic country.

there was also one lybian girl i don't know why she wasn't chosen, and one syrian girl as well, instead of bringing many people from the same country!!!

To amshe ya hemaur :)

may be there would be many khaliji girl singers in the future but the samra is one ya 3omry :)

mahita The syrian girl was sent for political reason. I found that very sad that's Star Academy el Arab politic, religion. It's just a game why they can't understand that.

why they banned her? in saudi are too stric about women. you saudi men dont have the right to CONTROL REMOTE for women.
there is no girl suadi contestants right.

fetfet i just read your articles in the forum.

last time i told trak that hanaa was 20 years old, and he didn't believe me she was with my sister in the same room in the casting of beiruth, and she told her she was 20 jihane is 18, and now i became sure that they changed their ages i don't know why!! it's really strange, i really don't understand this!!!

this is really sarcastic!!!i mean why would they send her home.y wouldnt they give her a chance!!
retarded people.they just want women to be lower than them men.its the same case for wa3ed the saudi singer that lives in lebanon cuz her parents wont talk to her since she chose to sing.i think those people are damn crazy and old fashioned.come on we live in 2006!!!

i agree with you amoura and i am not like those men. I am hunest man

i agree with ammoura about the wa3ed thing. no offence but saudi goverment r soooooooooo sexiest cus women r not even allowed 2 drive!!

yea y did they sent her home? i think she wud b a better replacement 4 maya, marwa, reem and manal put 2gether!!!

its tru y have loads of ppl frm same countries n not any frm other like iraq, syria, libya,sudan,oman...etc? i'm sure there were sum talented ppl frm all arab countries!

It's so shameful and horrible that Saudi girls can't particiapte in Star Academy because they're more likely to get bashed and insulted by the majority of people living in a strict male-dominated society simply for the show's reputation which allows boys and girls to hug and kiss each other while monitered all around the clock. I think this year's students were supposed o be 20 instead of 19 if Manal hadn't withdrawn from the show. I heard about Manal just 3 months before Star Academy 3 was aired, I was glad that finally a Saudi girl was willing to represent her country in a decent way like Mohamed Khalawi, Hesham, Mohamed Al Dossari and Mohamed Fahad and put an end to the barriers that we face in our lives in the name of religion and old fashoined traditions. Back in Saudi Arabia, people feel suppressed, music and arts aren't being endorsed in our schools and females are forbidden from playing sports and driving cars, and of course no cinemas, the list goes on and this is not only bad, it's worse! It's the 21st century, we desreve to have normal lives like other nations Arab and Muslim alike, we don't want excessive freedom, we want to live and be creative and happy instead of having of this imposed guardianship as if we were young kids who can't make their decisions. It really hurts that the birthplace of Islam which calls or tolerance and peace is inhabited by these brainless extremists who no more worse than the Talibans of Afghanistan.

It is sad really, i mean one can understand certain restriction within reason but this really pisses me off it is a double standards and extreme, i mean its ok for Saudies to have especially as defenders of Islam as they represent themselfs to have all the freedoms for man and very little for their women, its like an insult to them when a man outside of Saudi ask for a hand im marriage of a Saudi girl they make it very diffucult and boy , do they ask questions becouse its one of their girl, but the rest of the male population has a right to rest of the world whether married or not, there is a big Joke in London , England "where do you find a Saudi man, especially at a holly month of ramadan," at a strip club or with hookers at their London residance or at a gambling casino or a night club or at Harrods paying off one of the girls working there for sex for hire" their past King was one of the biggest playboy at old days and a gambler so what is all this fuss is about for a young girl who is going about her courier and trying to get a future in something she likes doing as simple as singing and doing it in a most respectable manner, now poor girl will be thinking all her life and wondering what would have happened if she was there and if she actually won the competition, nor she or we will never know now, we could have missed out on a best talent in middle east maybe?? well shame on them for taking away such opportunity away from a decent young girl, instead of worrying about a decent young girl, they should worry more about their playboy man in other countries and restrict them instead of a decent young lady and worst of it all that most of those playboy man that has that ugly repetation in Europa and other contries are the members of the Saudi Royal family and they soppose to be the best example to the Saudi People, i call this doublr standard and robbery of a young talanted lady of her future and opportunity, Shame on them all.

...I really have no idea why you only talk about saoudi arabia like that ... let me remind you something , except few and i say again very few arabic countries like Tunisia , Lebanon and may be Dubai "in some cases " m, the rest is all like that with different degrees of course !
In Saoudi Arabia women are not allowed to drive neither are they allowed to participate in any artistic , musical , political or financial matter,,, women are beaten and mistreated in their big majority , are not allowed to travel alone , they can't ask for divorce until their husbands does it , can't use their degrees "if they have one " ... I mean , i see a lot of people among you guys mentioning saoudi arabia , did you forget that this is the case for the majority of the gulf countries ? even more , don't u think that this is the case of the majority of the arab nations with the exception of Tunisia ???? I mean come on , most of arab nations still did not understand that women are good teachers , good singers , good engineers , good businesswomen and so on ... some say it but the society never accepts it .... When i see that Saoudi arabia is still thinkin' about the idea of giving to the woman the right to drive , when i see that polygamy is allowed in EVERY arab state with the exception of Tunisia , when i see that women can't be judges in the algerian legislation neither can they contribute to politics according to the syrian or negociating their right to divorce and decide their destiny in morocco ,,, i mean all arab countries don't even have a code for the women rights ( Tunisian Women rights code agreed in 1956) neither a departement and a minister protecting them ( ministere des affaires de la femme Tunisienne ) .... come on , stop pointing at saoudi arabia and forget that Arab women in their big majority are RIGHTLESS !!!

Well i talked about saudies becouse the topic was them pulling the singer but we can have a discution about "WOMENS RIGHTS AND RIGHTS OF ARABIC WOMEN IN MIDDLE EAST AND MORE" i think it would make a great topic, what do you think WALEG????????

YEAH WHY NOT

WALEG
can you put about saudi woman who got beaten up by her husband. her name is Rania al-Baz's who is jurnalist. She interview with the BBC's Outlook programme.
Her husband tried to strangle her until she fell unconscious, then he tried to smash her face.
But the big creep loser run away after put her in the hopital.

I have to agree with Mikaela, All arab countries oppress their women, I have to admit I admire the Tunisian Government, especially regarding the issue of children born to unmarried mothers, it is great that they will be given all their rights like children born to married parents. All arab countries should follow the Tunisian Governments steps and stop punishing the children for something they or in most cases their mothers have not committed. Do not forget that Saudi Arabia is the Holy Land, they are supposed to follow the Shari3a law ( they will be criticised whatever they did by arabs), that is not saying that I approve of oppressing women.

I love the click once, very clever LOL

Dear all,
Please wake up LBC is only trying to steal money out of the Arabs pockets. The choice of the garbage (candidates) and I call garbage because they lack any talent and any manners and still they beleive they are worthy.

What i see on TV is nothing but a THEFT.
"How much we will gain?" is the only question LBC ask , LBC is fooling us and we deserve to be fooled.
Do you ever read the chatting bar and how they drive Arabs to insult each other. We the Arabs that are known for their pride , dignity, generousity, every good manner that Islam taught us.
Its a dirty game and we must all stop watching this program, we must stop paying them money for selling us poison.
PLEASE MEN & WOMEN, BOYS & GIRLS watching this program reply to me... will you ever leave your sons and daughters sleep with each other in the same place, treat each other in such a cunning, disgusting way?
who knows what happens there???!!! who ever knows when cameras are off
I respect whoever banned this girl from participating, let me thank him but i would have thanked him more and more if he banned the boys too.
I would have really respected him if banning this girl was based on the reasons i mentioned before and not because she is a Saudi girl.
I ask for banning the whole program, its not about oppression beleive me. It is about protecting our identity and our pockets we the Arabs.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE STOP WATCHING THIS PROGRAM THEY ARE ONLY POURING POISON IN OUR HEARTS & MINDS.

Just to make things more clearer, Waad is not a Saudi her real name is Hanan Younes and one of her sisters is TV actress Layla Younes. The family is originally from Sudan and later got the Saudi citizenship like other Arabs. Her sister-in-law is Rania Al Baz who got beaten up by her monstrous husband Mohamad Younes. Rumors have it that Rania didn't oppose Waad's choice to have a singing career and it pissed him so much that's why on one night he caught his wife watching Waad on LBC during an interview with Tony Khalifah and in a fit of rage he attacked her causing her injuries and leaving her scarred for life. I have nothing against the Sudanese people, I respect and admire them for their decency and kindness, after all we're Arabs and Muslims. I'm not a racist and was never one.