Language destined to be sung by angels

The last speaker of Arabic on Earth will probably be a tour guide, singing songs in the early morning air as he escorts tourists who have never heard his native tongue. He will tell them about the poetry of Mutannabi, the words of Umm Kulthum and the music of the Cairo khan and the Sana’a souq and they will smile and wonder how such a beautiful language could ever pass from the Earth ... Arabic may never die, but its relevance may fade ... Arabic – brace yourselves people of the Arab world – is not considered cool.

As popular as Nancy Ajram and Amr Diab are, there are not many non-Arabic speakers itching to understand their words ...Arabic sometimes seems like a language destined to be sung by angels or whispered by lovers, not to be the language of the boisterous street.

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Happy Valentine's Day Anyway ...

No new release today ... it was a nice dream ... but trust everyone has a wonderful Valentine's Day anyway ... and that goes double for my Valentine :) Here's how it seems to stand.

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A few weeks ago it was rumored that a few songs off Amr Diab's latest album got leaked, and it turned out that there were a few songs that escaped unto the net and thus they wont be included in the album! Three of these leaked songs "Makontsh Nawi", "Be3et Leih", "Lama Abeltak" have been axed, "Kollo Ella Habibi", which is rumored to be a duet with an international superstar, might be in the album, but will sound totally different from the leaked version.

Amr Diab will finish the final touches on the album at the end of this week, and will travel to London for the digital mastering soon. The leaked song "Makontsh Nawi" has seen a tremendous amount of popularity in the Arab World. Unprecedented for a leaked song.The new release date for the album will be sometime in March.

On another level, a leaked version of the new Pepsi Commercial "Tamini" has been leaked. But the final version has yet to be released. By Guest Writer Masri Link

Songs Leaked ... Coming Soon!!

Valentine's Day release date anyone?? I'm thinking our chances are pretty good and that will be #1 on my wishlist (just the same, don't forget the flowers habibi ... easy on the chocolate!!)

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Four Songs Leaked

As consistently, before the official release of Amr Diab’s new album some of the songs got leaked. Four songs are already out, “ Lama Abeltak” , “Makontish Nawi”, “Teebt” and “Illa Habibi”. But it’s not definite yet whether these songs will be included in the new album, and actually we hope they won’t! Since the songs are surprisingly bad if we exclude only “Makontish Radi” which is fairly adequate.

The audience may be expecting more from Amr Diab since he’s an important and experienced artist, and those songs certainly doesn’t fulfill our hopes of foreseeing a great album from Amr.

The official release of the album is expected to be on 14th of February, followed by a big campaign from Rotana. Worth mentioning, this is Amr’s fourth album produced by the mentioned music production company. Link