Have you heard about the new TV series in the works? It stars Amr Diab and may cost a whopping 40 Million EGP!!! And this is only the first estimation of the budget!!!

The race is on and the question of the upcoming month is: Who will win the 2009 Music Award this year? Will it be Amr Diab, Nancy Ajram, Tamer Hosny or maybe Haifa Wehbe?

One of the 'Guess who' which I have added during the last weeks was for Amr Diab's wife, I thought it was an easy guess and I was expecting lots of correct answers however what happened is the total opposite, only a few of you were able to guess it right... That is why I'm sharing with you some photos of Amr with his wife Zeina.

As for Amr Diab's latest news, his new album achieved record sales despite the recession of the music industry...

Amr Diab released the first issues of his new newspaper. The newspaper is called “Alshareaa” or 'The Street' that covers a wide range of issues. In fact Amr is very happy because just an hour from releasing 35,000 copies of the newspaper to multiple places all over Egypt, 31,000 copies were sold! That indeed is a great success. However, Amr Diab wouldn’t be enjoying all of the success by himself but with his partner in the newspaper Iman Mohseb.

In the early morning hours of May 17th Amr Diab officially ended his final day in the recording studios after what has been a tedious journey to complete his latest album which has taken him two full years to complete (the largest duration Amr has ever taken to complete an album!). He had planned for Hassan El Shafei -who arranged all the songs in the album- and Tamer El Zoeby, the sound engineer, to fly to London to finally master the songs Amr had chosen for the album; but after the tragic death of Mohammad Alaa Mohammad Hosni Mubarak on the 18th of May all plans were put on hold until further news had surfaced!

You may be wondering which Top 100 did Nancy Ajram and Karl Wolf get ranked in?
Well, Arabian Business releases it's own list of The Top 100 most influential Arabs in the World every year.
This year, their list contains a lot of names that come from the sparkling show business realm.

Amr Diab has finally decided to add his new song 'Habibi Khalas' to his new album, which is set of release this summer.
Habibi Khalas is written by Khaled Tag Elddine and composed by Amr Mostafa.
Habibi Khalas is one of 4 songs that Amr Mostafa has composed for Diab and which are included in the album.

By guest writer Masri

At the time when official news had appeared that Amr Diab's anticipated album would be released at the beginning of the coming month, more bad news surfaced over the past couple of days that could lead to the biggest gap between Amr Diab's albums ever!

It was one unforgettable night with Amr Diab, Elissa and Nawal at Laiali Febraiar last night.
Diab performed for two continuous hours and entertained his fans with his usual passion and unique on-stage charisma.

A few weeks ago it was rumored that a few songs off Amr Diab's latest album got leaked, and it turned out that there were a few songs that escaped unto the net and thus they wont be included in the album!
Three of these leaked songs "Makontsh Nawi", "Be3et Leih", "Lama Abeltak" have been axed, "Kollo Ella Habibi", which is rumored to be a duet with an international superstar, might be in the album, but weill sound totally different from the leaked version.

Egyptian superstar Amr Diab held a huge concert on New Year's Eve in Dubai.
It's a known fact that stars ask for a huge paycheck for such concerts on such special events.
Last year, it was also in Dubai that Amr Diab held his New Year's Eve party, and he was paid $500,000.

In the coming couple of days, all you Amr Diab fans should be all eyes and ears as you wait for a new surprise from the superstar himself!
According to Amr Diab's World Forum, this will be the biggest surprise ever! I wonder, what will it be? What could possibly be the biggest surprise from Diab?
Thanks to our friend MASRI for pointing out this news.
We'll all be waiting for the hot news!

Related:
- Amr Diab Concert in Bahrain [With Photos]

Egyptian singer Amr Diab held a successful concert in Bahrain recently in which more than 80 thousand people attended the concert...
What was surprising about the concert is the number of bodyguards that accompanied Amr Diab; believe it or not, 2000 bodyguards were present with him!
How much did Amr Diab get for this concert, you may ask? A whopping two million (not sure if it's in Egyptian pounds or dollars).

Photos from Amr Diab concert in Bahrain

Thanks to Soo Strange of the photos

There is often too much talk about the World Music Awards in the Middle East and every year we anticipate the announcement of which artist will be crowned the Best Arab Musician of the year! Well Amr Diab just revealed that the World Music Award organizers have contacted him to present him with an award to honour the fact that he has received prizes for being best in the Arab world three times.