Vote for Amr

Nominees were recently announced for the second annual African Music Awards which will be presented in London on October 17th.

Amr has multiple nominations ... naturally! ... and you can show your support by VOTING FOR AMR

Amr is up for Artist of the Year, Song of the Year (Wayah), Music Video of the Year (Wayah), Best Male Act.

Results to date show him far in the lead. How far?? How about 99%. That might surprise some people, but not us. Go Amr!

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Amr Diab may act with Yusra

The famous Egyptian superstar revealed that he may appear in a film with the Egyptian actress Yusra. Diab said that he will review the script right after ‘Ramadan.’ Diab said that Yusra is a beautiful person and dedicated to her acting career.
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5 million pound man

The famous Egyptian superstar Amr Diab hosted a live concert at the Roman Theater at the Marina in Egypt on 7 August, drawing more than 150,000 fans.

Diab said that he would only sing at the Marina this year if his salary was doubled at 5 million Egyptian pounds. He also requested special stage decorations and lighting.
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Tunisia on the 14th

Hey, did you catch the fantastic Marina concert on the 7th? Amr rocked the Egyptian north coast as he traditionally does each midsummer. Looking svelte and healthy, he's obviously ready to keep the summer moving right along in full swing.

Next stop, Tunisia's north coast where their annual Festival of Carthage is well underway with a shimmering lineup of stars. Amr is set to hit the stage on the 14th August and you won't want to be missing this show!

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Fluency in classical Arabic is its own reward

His muscled body hovers over the Cairo highways these days. Drivers zip under his seductive gaze as he poses in a white tank top. The Egyptian superstar, Amr Diab, has a new album out this summer, and the billboards urge you to buy it ASAP. But after, ehem, appreciating his tanned self, I notice the title of his album and his name on the giant posters are written in a mix of English (or Latin really) and Arabic letters.

His first name for example is a combination of the letter “ain” in Arabic, and then “amr” in English letters. And almost all the other billboards for artists and movies are the same – the titles and names are Arabic but in Latin letters.

This isn’t really a new phenomenon – with the advent of SMS, instant messaging and computer lingo, Arabs have created a new written language. Letters that sound the same in English remain in their natural form, and letters that are unique to Arabic are replaced by numbers that look like them.

There are even websites such as yamli.com, where one can write Arabic in Latin letters and numbers into a box, press Enter, and the word gets rewritten in Arabic letters.

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