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Egyptian megastar, Amr Diab, has remained in the limelight for decades, setting trends, beloved by millions, sometimes controversial, always blogworthy.




Sunday, December 30, 2007

Year end polls (waleg.com)

With the end of 2007 only a few days away, it’s usually the time for polls!
Several polls have been conducted and the most recent being the ‘Al Arab’ poll that aims to find out who the ‘Star of 2007’ is! 17,000 votes later, Lebanese star Nancy Ajram was given the title after receiving 31% of the votes. In second place came another Lebanese star Wael Kfoury, he missed first place by a mere 157 votes! In third place was Amr Diab who received 15% of the votes and in fourth place was Elissa, whose new album has just recently been released.

Thursday, December 27, 2007

Live Broadcast

Showtime Arabia, the leading Pay-TV network in the Middle East & North Africa, announced today that the Amr Diab and Elissa New Year’s Eve concert hosted by Rotana will be broadcast live on SHOWCINEMA 4 on 31st December 2007 at 21:30 KSA.

The concert, which will be live from the Dubai World Trade Centre, is Rotana’s biggest event for the New Year and will be available live to Showtime subscribers only.

All Showtime subscribers can enjoy watching the concert live on the Pay-Per-View channel SHOWCINEMA 4 by ordering online, via SMS, or dialing the SHOWCINEMA numbers. For more information customers can visit www.showtimearabia.com or call Showtime customer contact centre.

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

New Year's Eve in Dubai

According to the London daily Elaph, three great singers - Amr Diab, Asi Hilani and Rageb Alameh - will all be performing on New Year’s Eve in Dubai. Intense competition for ticket sales and publicity has commenced.

Rotana is holding a huge celebration including Egyptian superstar Amr Diab and Lebanese singer Elissa at the World Trade Center in Dubai.

Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Eid Mubarak

Amr Diab has finally agreed to produce a new TV show with MBC Network about his life journey from the very beginning until he became a big star.

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That's the day's news and a very Happy Eid Al Adha to all !!

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Here Comes the Bill

Elite weddings get more extravagant as time goes on, to the glee of wedding planners and hotel owners, and the detriment of bank accounts across the country. What are we spending all that money on?.....

Start with a venue: The Shubra Palace has been pretty popular in recent years, and will charge LE 40,000 for every 250 guests. You’ll need to bring in your own catering though, which will run anywhere from LE 10,000 all the way up to LE 50,000 and beyond. The more popular venues are running at breakneck pace during the popular wedding periods: Golf City, whose open-air venue was a hit in recent years, held 20 weddings in the 14 days after Eid, while the JW Marriott held a whopping 52 weddings in August alone.

The bride will need to look even more radiant than the opulent surroundings, and radiance doesn’t come cheap. The cost-cutting couple might be able to find a decent wedding dress for LE 20,000, but designer gowns are where it’s at these days. They begin at LE 60,000 and head ever upwards to a sky-high LE 500,000 for top-notch Milanese products.

All those guests need to be entertained, which comes at a cost that is anything but entertaining: You’ll be lucky to get away with paying LE 15,000 for a lesser-known singer. Tamer Hosni is a relative bargain at LE 40,000, compared to someone like Amr Diab, who won’t show up for less than LE 200,000. If you want to please the eyes as well as the ears, a dancer like Dina will charge anywhere from LE 12,000 upwards. And pity the poor folks whose weddings aren’t in the heart of downtown — high strung entertainers like Hakim will charge an extra LE 5,000 to make it out to venues like the JW Marriott, just 10 minutes from Heliopolis.

Link to full story

Friday, December 07, 2007

Get Well Soon!

Prominent Egyptian singer Amr Diab has undergone a surgical operation in complete secrecy at one of the hospitals in Al Muhandiseen area in Cairo. The singer had arrived to hospital in the company of a number of bodyguards, and after undergoing several medical exams he was requested to remain in hospital to have an operation to remove a kidney stone.

The hospital’s security made sure that hospital staff and people from the outside were not able to come in contact with the singer or enter his room, aside from the medical team that did the operation.

Amr remained in hospital for one day and was sent home and requested to take time off to relax.Amr’s business manager, Ahmad Zaghloul, stressed that the singer is in good health and had only went to hospital to have a medical checkup, which is something he does on a regular basis. Ahmad was shocked to learn that news of the operation had leaked and refused to comment on the matter. Link