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Carole Samaha
Carole Samaha ( ar, كارول سماحة; born July 25, 1972) is a Lebanese singer, actress, and performer. She has released six studio albums. Samaha has a Master's degree in acting and directing, which she earned in 1999 from the Saint Joseph University of Beirut.''Carole Samaha'' Arabia, April 4, 2007 In 2004 she won the Arab Music Award for best female newcomer. She has also won multiple awards and was nominated for best Arabia New Act in the |
Hdoudi Sama
''Hdoudi Sama'' ( ar, حدودي السما, lit. "The sky is my limit") is a studio album by Carole Samaha. It was released in December 2009 and features 13 songs. Included is Carole's solo song from the soundtrack of the Pepsi musical '' Sea of Stars'' (Bahr El Nujoum) "Jeet" (here renamed "Majnouni (Jeet)"). In June 2010 Carole Samaha received the Best Album Murex d'Or The Murex d'Or (also known as the Golden Murex award) is a Lebanese award created by two Lebanese physicians, Zahi and Fadi Helou to recognize achievements in the domain of art in Lebanon, the Arab region and the world. The first Murex d'Or ce ... award for this album and in 2011 the music video for the song Khallik Bhalak won the Murex d'Or award for best music video. ("A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on June 25, 2011, on page 16.") Music videos Several music videos with songs featured in this album have been released: Track listing References * Album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adwa' Al Shohra
''Adwa' Al Shohra'' ( ar, أضواء الشهرة - lit. "lights of fame"), also known as ''The Limelight'', is an album by the Lebanese singer Carole Samaha released in 2006.''The Limelight'' at Carole dedicated this album to Mansour Rahbani
Mansour Rahbani ( ar, منصور الرحباني, Manṣūr Al-Raḥbāni; 17 March 1925 – 13 January 2009) was a Lebanese composer, musician, poet, philosopher, thinker and producer, known as one of the Rahbani brothers, and the b ... .CD album liner notes
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Helm (album)
''Helm'' ( ar, حلم – A Dream) is the first pop album by the Lebanese actress and singer Carole Samaha. It was released in 2003 by EMI Music Arabia. ''The Rough Guide to World Music: Africa & The Middle East'' calls it a "deliciously neat production". The song "Ghali Aayi" from the album became a hit.Badley, Bill. "Lebanon" in ''The Rough Guide to World Music: Africa & The Middle East''. 2006. . Following the release of this album, Carole Samaha won the "Best Female Newcomer" award at the Arab Music Awards. She also received the "Best Polyvalent talent (actress and singer)" 2003 Murex d'Or, while the song "Ettalaa fiyi" got the Murex d'Or for "Best Female Romantic Song".Murex d'Or website – click on the statuette, then on "Menu", then on "Results", and then slide the slider to 2003. The CD also contains a video clip with the official vid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Casino Du Liban
Casino du Liban is a casino located in Maameltein, in Lebanon and is 22 km north of Beirut. With an area of about 35,000 square meters, the casino has around 400 slot machines and 60 gaming tables. It has a showroom, night club, theater, banquet facility and five restaurants. The casino was first opened in 1959. It closed in 1989 during the Lebanese Civil War and reopened in 1996 after a $50 million reconstruction and refurbishment project. The Casino du Liban is majority-owned by Intra Investment Company, a Lebanese government-controlled company which is the remainder of the former Intra Bank, with the remainder of the shares held by private companies and individuals. The casino is managed by London Clubs International, a subsidiary of Caesars Entertainment. Performers at the Casino's night club included Duke Ellington, Danny Thomas, Jacques Brel, and Julio Iglesias. Visitors at the casino included King Hussein of Jordan, Albert II, Prince of Monaco, the Shah of Iran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ana Horra (album)
''Ana Horra'' ( ar, انا حرة - ''I Am Free'') is a studio album by the Lebanese singer Carole Samaha released in 2004.''Ana Horra'' at The album includes the song "Habbet Delwa't" from the soundtrack of the movie ''Dreams of Our Lives''Album liner notes (أحلام عمرنا). Music videos Music videos for three songs from this album have been released: * "Ghali alayi", directed by Caroline Labaki * "Nezlet essitarah", directed by Salim el Turk * "Habbet Delwa't", directed byOsman Abou Laban Osman is the ...
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Cyprus
Cyprus ; tr, Kıbrıs (), officially the Republic of Cyprus,, , lit: Republic of Cyprus is an island country located south of the Anatolian Peninsula in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Its continental position is disputed; while it is geographically in Western Asia, its cultural ties and geopolitics are overwhelmingly Southern European. Cyprus is the third-largest and third-most populous island in the Mediterranean. It is located north of Egypt, east of Greece, south of Turkey, and west of Lebanon and Syria. Its capital and largest city is Nicosia. The northeast portion of the island is ''de facto'' governed by the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which was established after the 1974 invasion and which is recognised as a country only by Turkey. The earliest known human activity on the island dates to around the 10th millennium BC. Archaeological remains include the well-preserved ruins from the Hellenistic period such as Salamis and Kourion, and Cypr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Limassol
Limassol (; el, Λεμεσός, Lemesós ; tr, Limasol or ) is a city on the southern coast of Cyprus and capital of the district with the same name. Limassol is the second largest urban area in Cyprus after Nicosia, with an urban population of 183,658 and a metropolitan population of 239,842. In 2014, Limassol was ranked by TripAdvisor as the 3rd up-and-coming destination in the world, in its Top 10 Traveler's Choice Destinations on the Rise list. The city is also ranked 89th worldwide in Mercer's Quality of Living Survey (2017). In the 2020 ranking published by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, Limassol was classified as a "Gamma −" global city. History Limassol was built between two ancient Greek cities, Amathus and Kourion, and during Byzantine rule it was known as Neapolis (new town). Limassol's historical centre is located around its medieval Limassol Castle and the Old Port. Today the city spreads along the Mediterranean coast and has extende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walid Mostafa
Walid Mostafa (Walid Mostafa Hasan) is an Egyptian media businessman. He is the director of international NRJ EGYPT radio station (one of the first French stations to broadcast in Arabic). Mostafa also founded ''Youm7'' newspaper in 2007, and Al-Nahar television channel in 2011. He works in the field of visual, audible, and readable media, marketing and advertising. He is a member of the Egyptian Junior Business Association (EJB) and the International Advertising Association (IAA). He is also a member of the Egyptian Public Relation Association (EPRA) and the Journalist Association, as well as a member of the Syndicate of Pharmacists. Early life Walid Mostafa was born on 15 January 1972 in Giza, Egypt. He was homeschooled until the first year of high school, after which he studied abroad through a student exchange program between Egypt and the United States of America. He spent his last two years of high school at Benjamin High School in Florida. Mostafa graduated from the facu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colombia
Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Caribbean Sea to the north, Venezuela to the east and northeast, Brazil to the southeast, Ecuador and Peru to the south and southwest, the Pacific Ocean to the west, and Panama to the northwest. Colombia is divided into 32 departments and the Capital District of Bogotá, the country's largest city. It covers an area of 1,141,748 square kilometers (440,831 sq mi), and has a population of 52 million. Colombia's cultural heritage—including language, religion, cuisine, and art—reflects its history as a Spanish colony, fusing cultural elements brought by immigration from Europe and the Middle East, with those brought by enslaved Africans, as well as with those of the various Amerindian civilizations that predate colonization. Spanish is th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lebanon
Lebanon ( , ar, لُبْنَان, translit=lubnān, ), officially the Republic of Lebanon () or the Lebanese Republic, is a country in Western Asia. It is located between Syria to the north and east and Israel to the south, while Cyprus lies to its west across the Mediterranean Sea; its location at the crossroads of the Mediterranean Basin and the Arabian hinterland has contributed to its rich history and shaped a cultural identity of religious diversity. It is part of the Levant region of the Middle East. Lebanon is home to roughly six million people and covers an area of , making it the second smallest country in continental Asia. The official language of the state is Arabic, while French is also formally recognized; the Lebanese dialect of Arabic is used alongside Modern Standard Arabic throughout the country. The earliest evidence of civilization in Lebanon dates back over 7000 years, predating recorded history. Modern-day Lebanon was home to the Phoenicians, a m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahlé
Zahlé ( ar, زَحْلة) is the capital and the largest city of Beqaa Governorate, Lebanon. With around 150,000 inhabitants, it is the third-largest city in Lebanon after Beirut and Tripoli and the fourth largest taking the whole urban area (the Jounieh urban area is larger). Zahlé is located east of the capital Beirut, close to the Beirut-Damascus road, and lies at the junction of the Lebanon mountains and the Beqaa plateau, at a mean elevation of 1,000 m. Zahlé is known as the "Bride of the Beqaa" and "the Neighbor of the Gorge" for its geographical location and attractiveness, but also as "the City of Wine and Poetry". It is famous throughout Lebanon and the region for its pleasant climate, numerous riverside restaurants and quality arak. Its inhabitants are predominantly Melkite Greek Catholic and are known in Arabic as ''Zahlawi''. Etymology The occasional landslides that take place on deforested hills around the town are probably at the origin of the name. His ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dhour El Choueir
Dhour El Choueir ( ar, ضهور الشوير), sometimes Dhour Shweir, is a mountain town in Lebanon ('dhour' meaning 'summit, top f a mountain) located in the Matn District. It lies slightly north of the main Beirut - Damascus highway, overlooking the city of Beirut and the Mediterranean sea, some 30 km from Beirut and 42 km from Beirut International Airport in Khalde. This mountain town is one of Mount Lebanon's favored summer resorts, known for its extraordinary fresh air and is also important for its August yearly carnival, honoring Lebanon's emigrants. It is linked to Beirut via the Matn Express Highway, also known as the M90 through Baabdat. Demographics The inhabitants of Dhour El-Choueir are predominantly Christians, with half of the population being Eastern Orthodox, while the other half is mostly Melkite and Maronite. History The Greek Catholic monk Abdallah Zakher set up an Arabic language printing press using movable type at the monastery of Saint John at C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
