• Egyptian actress Sumaya Khashab said in a statement that she will not deal with the famous Syrian actor Jamal Sulaiman anymore since some of her scenes were deleted for his behalf.

• Elissa announced that she will have nothing more to do with director Salem Al Turk who directed her song "Law Ta'rifo" because of her dissatisfaction with his work.

• Lebanese singers Danna and Maria have exchanged insults at a birthday party which they attended. It appears to come from mutual jealousy since it was Maria's feeling that Danna had more success under director Jad Chouiri than her.

• Hani Salama has assured his friends that the national censorship committee will not be omitting scenes of his new movie "Khiana Shariya" which the Azhar Mosque disagreed to.

• Only five days to go and the forth season of Star Academy 4 will begin on LBC TV. Will Pepsi or Nescafe (Nestle) be the sponsor of this year season as usual or will there be a new sponsor this year?!

• One of the most dangerous things facing the movie industry is global piracy especially in South America. This will be the center of discussion at the Cairo Film Festival today.

• Famous Egyptian actress Laila Alawi was chosen by the Dubai Film Festival from 10 other top Arabic actors and actresses to sit on the judging panel at the prestigious event.
The opening ceremony will witness some of the brightest stars from Indian cinema too.

- Egyptian Actor Hussein Fahmi apologized for his recent comments about women who wore the hijab as "disabled" saying that what he really meant was the hijab disables the actress from doing sports and other athletic activities.
Loool, I think he should have just shut up.

- There's a new TV channel in town! It's called City 7, transmits in English and based in Dubai. The new channel will have all sorts of programs and hopes to be one of the best out there! Its target is the 3 million English speaking residents in Dubai in addition to others in the Arab Gulf states.

- After a long wait, and even though some of his counterparts already beat him to it, Star Academy 3 winner Josef Attiya, will finally be releasing the video clip of his winning song "Lat Roohi" or "Don't Go."
Watch out for it!

• The famous Lebanese singer Miriam Faris is back from her visit to Amman, Jordan where she sang some of her most popular songs at the 4-Seasons Hotel. She probably left early since President Bush is holding his meetings there today.

• The famous presenter Hala Sarhan was able to draw a hot confession from Tunisian actress Hind Sabri regarding her love life. Hind said she was living a beautiful romance and that she might get married very soon. Keep an eye out for this episode.

• Lebanese director Nadine Labki, famous for directing a video clip for Nancy Ajram, is participating in the Cairo Film Festival, not as a director but as an actress for her role in the Lebanese movie "Bosta" which will be the 3rd Lebanese movie to be screened at the festival.

• Many stars are expected to attend the Cairo Film Festival today from the Arab World and all over the globe. The festival is expected to draw widespread media coverage since the organizers have been preparing for the event for over 3 months.

• The Syrian singer Noura Rahal is preparing to release her new album "Dunyati Ahla" composed of 10 new songs, the main one is "Adi" which will be released this coming December.

• The director of the new movie set to be released soon staring the famous Lebanese singer Maya Nasri has changed it's title from "Black and White" to code 36. The movie will star Maya as an Aerobics instructor, she'll also be singing a couple of songs too.

• Hussein AbdulGhani, the chief correspondent of Al-Jazeera office in Egypt, has been detained as he tried to leave Egypt heading to Qatar on some business.
According to the Egyption government, AbdulGhani was detained becasue of Al-Jazeera's coverage of the Dahab explosions last April! They accuse Al-Jazeera of spreading false news & trying to make the Egyption government look bad infront of the world.

• The Arab Center for Youth elected Hussein Al Jasmi as the Ambassador of Arab Youth due to his constant support to them. He was handed his official duties in a huge ceremony on Thursday at the Ajyad Country Club.

• Ahmed Al Fishawi, son of Farook Al Fishawi married his bride Wisam in an American-Style wedding at his father's garden.

• Shwaikar as been regularly seeing a doctor as she complains of pains in her foot after being ill for a while. At the same time, she was the guest of honor at the remake of the play "My Fair Lady" which she performed in during the 60's with her late husband Foa'd Al Muhandis.

• Wael Kfoury is in Toronto and will be touring Canada starting with Windsor today 23rd, then Toronto on the 24th, then Montreal on the 24th and finally Ottawa on 25th. After that he'll head back to Beirut only to prepare for even more concerts in Tunis on the 1st and 2nd of December.

• It seems that Nour Al Sharif is back with Bousy as they had been seen having Iftar together during Ramadan 7 times accompanied by their two daughters Mae and Sara. Bousy said that despite the divorce, they still maintain a good family relationship.

• Adel Imam won the award for best actor during the Sao Paulo International Film Festival in Brazil for his role in the movie "Imaret Yakbyan". That movie is considered to be the biggest movie in Egyptian cinema history costing $2.8M and making over $3.3M

• Lebanese singer Serine Abdel Nour is preparing to shoot her new video clip for her song "Alaik Iyooni" or "My Eyes Are on You" which is also the title of her latest album. At the same time, she's getting her new album in shape as she's got about 4-5 songs in the bag already.

• Fans of Tash Ma Tash, the Saudi TV Series which has been a part of Ramadan for 14 years now are upset because several scenes were deleted and it seems that full episodes weren’t even broadcasted because of censorship!

• The first video clip of star academy 1 candidate Mira is released in Beirut, Mira first song is called ‘Wala Moumken’.

• Egyptian actress Hala Shiha decided to retire from acting forever and she is currently attending religious lessons.

• Lebanese singer Cinderella won the prize for the best Arabic video clip for her song ‘Sebat Elgram’ during the Festival of Arabic Video Clips Oscars which took place in Sharm Al Sheikh.

• Egyptian actress Eman Ayoub attempted suicide recently during the shooting of the new TV series ‘Nassr Alsamaa’! The reason why Eman tried to kill herself is that the series won’t be aired on TV during the month of Ramadan!!

• The first Album of Lebanese singer Melissa has been released, the album is called ‘Bedi Menak’. I didn’t type the name wrong, Melissa & not Elissa … she has the title of Miss Middle East 2004 and she is now a singer … Typical!

• Egyptian actress Layla Alawi visited Lebanon recently to give tribute to the innocent people who were killed in the second massacre of Qana.

• Hanan Turk refused recently an offer to present a TV show that talks about religious issues. ‘I can’t do this job, and I never thought of it because this is not my job. I’m still learning…’ Hanan Said.

• Egyptian singer Amr Diab will be releasing a new album after Ramadan, an album that he claims will make his fans around the world happy.

• Lebanese singer Rola Saad singed a contract with a big perfume company to star in a TV commercial for two new perfumes the company intends to introduce to the people during the first day of Eid El-fitr 2006.

• Egyptian Musician Association had banned singer Shereen Abdul Wahab from holding any concerts or TV and Radio interviews in Egypt!

• Egyptian actress Hanan Turk is angry over the recent rumors that were circulating claiming that she intends to remove her Hijab; Hanan strongly denied the rumors and described them as lies.

• Lebanese singer Carol Samaha will be holding a press conference tomorrow in Virgin Mega Store in Dubai to promote her new album ‘Athwa Alshohra’ which contains 8 songs in which she worked with different Lebanese and Egyptian poets and composers.

• Prominent Syrian singer Asala Nasri’s little sister just finished the recording of her first song after she delayed her idea to enter the music world for several years.

• Nude photos of Egyptian actress Donya are circulating via mobile SMS messages in Egypt. The photos were taken from Donya’s upcoming film while she was taking a shower …!

• Egyptian Actress Poussy is still in love with her ex-husband Actor Nour ElSherif. “Nour represents a major part of my life, he was my husband for over thirty years,” said Poussy.

• Prominent British Pop singer Yusuf Islam who is formerly known as Cat Stevens will be releasing a new music album soon. The new album is Yusuf Islam’s first commercial album in 28 years and the date of its release will mark the 40th Anniversary of the release of the first Cat Stevens record.

• Egyptian singer Angham criticized Arab singers that base their video clip success on seduction and on showing parts of their body in order to get noticed and be famous…

• Lebanese singer Fadel Shaker new album will be released very soon. The new album is called ‘Ensa Eli Rah’, it contains 12 songs of which most are romantic.

• Egyptian Actor Hussein Fahmi is getting ready for a new role in a new TV series called ‘Ana wa Ekhwati’ which will be televised after the month of Ramadan.

• Emarti singer Hussain Al Jasmi celebrated his twenty seventh birthday last week in front of his fans who came to watch his concert at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London.

• After Nancy Ajram, it’s Amal Hijazi’s turn in 'Ya Leil Ya Ein' TV Show that is broadcasted on LBC TV. Amal sangs 3 of her new songs: ‘ya baya3 alward’, ‘aman’ and ‘baheb no3 kalamak’.

• Balabak Festival in Lebanon will be back very soon with a concert for prominent Lebanese singer Fairuz.

• Prominent Syrian singer Mayada Al Hinawi accepted recently a film script that was offered to her in which she will play a role of an Artist.

• The management of Dubai International Film Festival has announced that the prizes of the festival will reach 1.2 Million AED.