• 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.

• Haifa Wehbe will be holding a concert today in Carthage in Tunisia with the participation of Lebanese singer Fares Karam. On the other hand, famous Tunisian singer Saber Al Rubai will be holding again another concert in Carthage next Wednesday.

• Two new video clips of Lebanese singer Darine Hadchiti will be aired soon on different satellite music channels like Mazzika and Melody Hits. Darine’s new video clips were recorded in Australia with the management of an international big team.

• Egyptian singer actress & belly dancer Dina is suffering from a disease and refused to say any statement to the press about this matter… Dina will be staying in hospital for a long time.

• Prominent Algerian singer Warda returned to acting after a long time through a new series that will be aired soon on Ramadan.

• After ‘Altajreba Aldenmarkiya’ and ‘ Tamn Dasta Achrar’, Lebanese singer Nicole Saba will be having a new role in a new Egyptian film called ‘Layali’.

• Jordan Short Film Festival starts today and it will be holding an international competition in addition to the Jordanian film competition.

• If you missed watching the historical Arabic series 'Muluk Al Tawaef' that was aired on MBC 1 on last Ramadan, you can watch it now again on MBC 1 ... You really shouldn't miss it, it's one of the best series.

• After 6 months he spent in jail, Egyptian actor Tamer Hosni is finally out. Hopefully Tamer won’t forget this tough lesson!

• Lebanese singer Nawal AlZogbi trying to assure everyone that she is not responsible of releasing her new album ‘Yama Aloo’ during the last war …

• Kuwaiti singer Nabil Shoail just finished the recording of his new song ‘Lebanon Elsalam’. All the concerts that Nabil Shoail was going to hold in Beirut, Cairo and London were canceled and he also postponed the release of his new music album ‘Shoail 2006’.

• Egyptian boy band Wama have finished working on their latest album, & have finished shooting a video clip for their new song Zay Ma Ba7lam –just like I dream-.Their album will hit the stores after the Eid Al Fitr after Ramadan.

• Actress Hind Sabri had a bit of a problem as she tried to travel to Tunisia from Egypt.
It seems she was detained at the Cairo Airport & the only one to rescue her was Egyptian actor Adel Imam. She called him & he sorted things out & Hind was allowed to board her plan to Tunisia.

• The real age of some Arab actors & singers is shocking!
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• After ‘Harb Italia’ -The Italian War -, Razan Al moghrabi will be having a new role again with Egyptian actor Ahmed El-Sakka in a new movie called ‘Abbas Albayath’. The shooting of this movie will start on next September.

• Egyptian Star Academy 3 candidate Hani Hussein is now preparing himself for a new movie with Mona Zaki and Mohammed Karim. This movie will be produced by the Adel Group. By Shaza

• Under the management of director Gilbert Al Ghabri, Lebanese singer Karina completed the recording of her new song ‘Alsalam’ –peace-. The lyrics of the song are in different languages; Arabic, English, French, Spanish, Armenian & Wuluf, the African Language of the country where Karina was born.
The song calls for peace, unity & the respect of human rights.

• Egyptian Actor Fouad Al Mohandes got lucky after his villa got totally burned down because of an electrical malfunction in the house's air-conditioning system.
Luckily, one of his neighbors took him out of the house at the right time, just before any serious damages happen.

• Saudi poet Samir Altea’r is asking for 1 million pounds from Lebanese singer Haifa Wehbe after she record a song called ‘gayart hayate’ … Samir announced in a Saudi newspaper that he wrote this song for Mayada Al Henawi in 1995 though he is not 100% sure that the lyrics of Haifa’s song are the same as the old one!

• Lebanese singer Miriam Fares returned yesterday with her family to Lebanon after a month of absence and she will be holding a number of concerts in Egypt in which all the profits will be given to charities in Lebanon.

Columbian singer Shakira, who is also of Lebanese origin, has recently announced that she will be singing Fairuz’s famous song ‘Ateni Alnaya Wa Ghani’ – Give me the flute & sing –.
Shakira will be singing the famous song in Arabic & will also give it a re-mix.

There was a great hype about the last movie of late Egyptian actor Ahmad Zaki, Halim, about the life of the great Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafeth.
But it seems the hype was not in its place!
Young actor Haitham Ahmad Zaki is now in a state of depression after the movie turned out to be less than expected! There wasn't enough audience turn-out & their feedback wasn't as positive as expected.

Algerian Reem Al Ghazali is being threatened with a huge law suit by Lebanese channel LBC!
Reem seems to have blurted out all the behind the camera secrets of the reality TV show LBC Star Academy to some Algerian newspapers & magazines.
Reem accused the program's director of being biased towards Lebanese contestants & of accepting 'under the table' deals.
LBC has threatened Reem with a law suit & possibly jail if she didn't stop her accusations.

• Like many other Lebanese singers, Ragheb Alama canceled all his concerts this summer and he is now helping people in Lebanon by sending food, medicine and cash donations.
Ragheb Alama is now in the UAE while the rest of his family – his wife and children – are in France.

• Lebanese singer Elissa made two large donations to charity organization that provide aid to Lebanon and she also announced that she will be donating her first concert profits after the war is over to Lebanon.

• Syrian singer Asala’s new album has been released by Rotana Production Company after her attempt to postpone the release till the war in Lebanon is over failed. The new album is entitled ‘Hayati’ and resembles the journey of Asala personal life through words and music. Among the album songs, 1 is dedicated to Asala new husband Tareq and the others to her children.

• Emarati singer Hussein Aljasmi announced that he won’t be participating in Carthage festival in Tunisia this year because of the current events in Lebanon.

• Egyptian Star Academy student Yasser, has fallen in love! Not in a video clip, but in real life.
His new love is the sister of Lebanese Star Academy 1 student Cynthia Karam, Joy.

• It seems Star Academy 3 student Fadi Andraos has reached a dead end in his relationship with girlfriend Vivian! Fadi said during an interview that although he loves Vivian a lot, their relationship is going from bad to worse!

• The Tunisian government declared Sunday, Monday and Tuesday mourning days. In addition to that the Tunisian Ministry of Culture has postponed all the current festivals and concerts that are going to take place during these days.

• Saddam Hussein was hospitalized yesterday after 17 days of hunger strike and was fed through a tube to ensure he is healthy enough to continue with his trial as a verdict becomes close.
• Hezbollah representative in Iran warns that his group plans to widen its attacks on Israel until “no place” is safe for Israelis: “We are going to make Israel not safe for Israelis. There will be no place they are safe… You will see a new Middle East in the way of Hezbollah and Islam, not in the way of Rice and Israel” Hossein Safiadeen said.

• Iraqi singer Kathem Al-Saher donated 30 Million Iraqi Dinars ($18,000) to the Lebanese Embassy in Baghdad in support of the Lebanese people at their time of need.

• Lebanese singer Majda Al Roumi refused to leave Lebanon, she said that she is spending her time these days like the rest of the Lebanese people waiting and visiting the schools in her region which welcomed lots of refugees from the south part.

• In light of the events in Lebanon, a private jet was waiting for Haifa Wehbe to take her out of the country.

• In the sixth days of Bombing, the death toll reached more than 165 civilians in Lebanon and 24 in Israel with more than 390 Lebanese wounded according to official sources.

• Lebanon's stock market has closed today and the country's economy lost more than $500 million, vanishing the earlier expected hopes of the Lebanese economy reaching an annual growth of 5% this year through the tourism sector.

• Several countries governments like the UK and France have already or started evacuating their citizens from Lebanon.

• George Bush is frustrated about UN Secretary General Kofi Annan stand about the current Israeli Lebanese conflict in which he believes a ceasefire by itself will resolve the conflict.

• Leaders of the world's G8 called on militant groups in Lebanon and Palestine to stop attacking Israel and urged Israelis to avoid killing civilians and damaging Lebanon's infrastructure in response to military attacks from Hezbollah

• Israel’s Prime Minster, Ehud Olmert said Israel's conditions for stopping the fighting include "bringing home the soldiers, complete peace and quiet, removing Hezbollah from the area."