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amar or qamar!

The shortest way to fame has become plastic surgery and bit of nudity!
If you're a girl and you dream of becoming a well known singer, then the magical equation is well known; get some plastic surgery, enlarge your breasts, learn some moves from Haifa Wehbe, get some washed out poet to write you some silly songs and strut your stuff in a Music Video!
If you're not a fan of Haifa, then don't be sad! Let your plastic surgeon to make your face as similar as can be to either Nancy Ajram or Elissa! Easy Peasy!
Have you checked out some of the new singers in the business these days?
There are a couple in particular that have taken the word 'Copy Cat' to a new level!
Melissa is copying Elissa ... even the name says so!
Amar or Qamar is copying Haifa, in more ways than one!
She looks like her (check out photo above), she tries to sound like her and she moves like her!

Photos of Qamar

Photos of Qamar

Photos from Qamar Video Clip

Photos from Amar video clip

While reading the recent comments that were posted on the site during the last few weeks especially after we posted an article about Mohammad and another about Nader, lots of our readers have accused us of being fans of Mohammad and that we don’t like Nader…

While we have the right, as all of you do, to be fans of one of the candidate, we are NOT fans of any of the season's candidates, though we admit we like some of the candidates’ voices more than others…

Our only intention when we posted these articles about Nader and Mohammad wasn’t to encourage people to be with or against any of these two contestants, but to show that there are things going on this season which aren't usual, we don’t know if it is just a way for attracting more viewers or is it just part of this year's strategy for the show…

Facebook is a cool international community where friends can meet and catch up ... Where people from all walks of life can get to know each other and make friends ... but what happens when religious issues pop up?
It's ok, as long as each keeps his/her limits ... respects all religions and all beliefs ... but when people start insulting each other and coming up with groups targeting a certain religion, that's when it all crosses the red line!
It becomes a bigger problem when this happens on one of the fastest growing social networking websites like Facebook!

I usually write to inform you about the latest celebrity news. However, after the both overwhelming and disgusting response to yesterday’s article about Star Academy contestant Shatha Hassoun, I think a history lesson is in order.

After the collapse of the last great Islamic Empire (which while called Islamic was home to Christians, Jews, and Zoroastrians also), what remained of the crumbling Umayyad Empire fled to Cordoba, in Spain. The Mongols had Arab nation with deep divides, and easily defeated them. But the Arabs in Spain; for 150 years there was a golden age in which Muslim, Jewish and Christian Arab scholars lay down the basis of the math that we use today (Algebra, etc.) and translated the lost works of Ancient Greece. However, just like the Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads in Baghdad, the emirs of Arab Spain (Al Andalus) began to quarrel and split up Southern Spain into little kingdoms.

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In the past few days, some of WALEG readers particularly Lebanese were posting irrelevant comments on articles that have nothing to do with the sad incidents that are currently taking place in Lebanon.

Despite our sadness and all our emotions that go out to the Lebanese people, and our admiration to our Lebanese readers patriotism to their country; WALEG.com remains a website for everyone covering news from all over the world. We are not a Lebanese website neither are we based in Lebanon.

Our articles about American news weren't published with an intention to promote America. They're in the news and there are many readers out there -Americans and non-Americans alike - who are interested in them.

Thank you for your understanding.

In the past few days, we were really busy and we couldn’t publish new articles on a daily manner as we usually do… and today, checking first emails and recently posted comments, we were really shocked by a comment posted by an Arab student in Canada, specifically in Quebec studying in the University of Laval. The language this student used is an extremely low & obscene language which was directed to us, & was full of swears in Arabic language.

I was once a student who lived outside my country of origin and I was totally comfortable with myself and I spent almost 8 years away from home, during which I never used any such low language towards anybody. However I did meet a number of students who have also traveled away from their countries for the purpose of studying, some of these students were full of rage and anger… they had some trouble like making new friends, passing their exams successfully, etc. Unfortunately, many of them went back home full of disappointment and increased rage and anger after they failed to achieve their goals.

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