Amr Diab eliminated from ‘Hala February Festival’

The organizing committee of the Annual Hala (Hello)February Music Festival in Kuwait has announced that Egyptian singer Amr Diab will not participate in this year’s events. The committee stated that Diab was not nominated alongside other singers who will take part in the festival due to the fact that he demanded a wage of 200 thousand US dollar for his performance; an amount the committee felt was too high.

The committee added that Diab’s wage for last year’s performance was 80 thousand US dollars only and the enormous increase, in addition to the singer’s conditions that he would only participate if Egyptian singers Tamer Husni and Mohammad Hamaqi were not invited without revealing the reasons for such a request.

Negotiations are currently being held with other Egyptian singers, who are as popular as Amr, to participate in the events of this year’s festivals, according to the Kuwaiti based daily, Al Qabas.

Amr the Ambassador

Egyptian singer Amr Diab has always been amazingly successful in everything he does.

He received three American Music Awards and is known as the artist with the biggest foreign fan base. He is also currently filming a movie with the provisional title of ‘El Motamared’ that loosely tells the story of his life. However, does all this make him eligible for the role of ‘Good Will Ambassador’ for the United Nations? Indeed, there has been a lot of talk about Amr’s nomination to take on this specific role, but nothing has been confirmed yet.

Egyptian stars who have been ‘Good Will Ambassadors’ in previous times include Adel Imam and Mahmoud Kabil. Both of these stars were suitable candidates. Adel Imam has been known as a charitable person and has made amazing movies about corruption and the Egyptian political system. Mahmoud Kabil is fluent in English, Arabic, French, Hebrew, and Italian making him a great link between Egypt and the rest of the world.
What qualities, in your opinion, does Amr Diab have to make him a suitable ‘Good Will Ambassador’? Link

Inclement weather

Inclement weather conditions were said to be the cause of the one day postponement of Amr´s Dubai concert. The concert is one of the highlights of the Dubai Shopping Festival 2008.