Dinosaurs Attend The Beirut International Award Festival "BIAF"

Dinosaurs are no longer roaming God's earth but if you were in Beirut last weekend, you would have ran into some of those extinct creatures on a red carpet. This event tells you that those celebrities do not really care about people in trouble around the Arabic world. They do not have the people of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and Palestine on mind--they love themselves so very much.

Beirut International Award Festival (BIAF) was held in the city of Beirut where dozens of Arab entertainers collected awards....and spoke to the media. What has Latifa done in the past two years get an award? And Who is Lubna Abdel Aziz? And Elisa Rahabni takes home another award?

Eighteen people took home BIAF Awards including the legendary singer Hany Shaker--who has not released anything new in more than two years now. The only thing those self-loving and self promoters had to say is smile and pose for cameras, they have also talked a great deal about having real concerns for the Arab people. But that doe snot seem to have stopped them form enjoying themselves in a night of food, music and self-promotion.

I am all for a great time, but this is hardly the time for celebration and big dinner galas. You may say, well, what are they going to do? Nothing, they should just sit at home and pretend they can change nothing, they are no change makers.

مهرجان BIAF يستمر بالتألق في دورته الثالثة

Listen: Rowida Atteiha Hot New Single - Merci رويدا عطية -ميرسي

Rouwaida Attieh took two years off and the break seems to have paid off, she has made her presence now with the release of anew single. Rouwaida is the strongest young female voice form Syria. Her voice is so complex to describe yet so pleasant to hear. She chose a commonly known and used French word to "Merci" as a title for her song. If you remember Rouwaida took part of the first ever Arab singing competition on a reality show Super Star. She was the runner's up.

In this new single you hear Rouwaida telling her man, thanks for all the trouble, and thanks for screwing me over. It plays like a revenge song except it's a sweet song not bitter. I think most of the work has been done in layering the music track, there are so many mixed elements that make this single a dance track. It's not your average demo, but rather a complex track.

This song takes a new real value when you know that Rouwaida has just also came out of a divorce where her husband did not want kids. According to Rouwaida, he husband was more concerned with her career and not the family. Whoever wrote and composed this song deserves a trophy.  

ميرسي جديد رويدا عطية


Rowida Atteiha - Merci رويدا عطية - ميرس

One Kuwaiti Writer Wants To Ban Iraqi Music

People of Kuwait are educated, cultured and appreciate the arts. They are pioneers among many Arabs in their high sense of culture and deep sense of anything entertaining. Unfortunately, some voices in the mainstream Kuwaiti culture enjoys living in the past, likes looking backward and takes pleasure in spreading the hate of Iraq.

It was not the people of Iraq who decided to go to war with Kuwait, but rather a mad man who is gone and a regime who no longer exists. Mubarak Almo'asharjy (مبارك مزيد المعوشرجي)--whose last name means a butt hole in Arabic is taking issues with Iraqi dramas being on TV and Iraqi music playing in that country.

Instead of choosing to forgive and look forward, he wants people to boycott their brethren to the North. I am not sure if the author feels the same way about American movies and music. But Mubarak wants Kuwait to boycott all things cultural form Iraq. Mubarak is hardly the only one to pull such a stunt, many pick on Iraqi's better known artists Kathm Al Saher

1. Kuwaiti singer Nabel Shoeel puled out of a song about Arab unity and aspirations because he learned Kathem Al Saher--an Iraqi will take part of the same song.
2. The same singer in 2010 took a swap at Kathem and asked him to donate his very expensive watch to benefit the Iraqi children. Kathem does a lot of work and raises a lot of money for different Arab causes
3. Promotional posters for a Kathem album in the streets of Kuwait has generated a number of lawsuits--even though the company that produces and promotes Kathem's albums is a Saudi one.

Kathem was classy about it and never answered with hate, he has always wished such voices well and had nothing but praises for his peers and people of Kuwait. This is why he might be more successful and more likable than his critics.

To be fair, most people in Kuwait have moved on their lives and have turned the page. Iraq has apologized and to the best of their efforts they have tried to make it right.  But Iraq is not the only one that gets hate letters form some tiny faction in Kuwait  during the bombing of Gaza at least two columnists wrote articles in which they celebrate it Israel and blamed Palestinians for the violence. 

Lionel Messi, Ronaldo & Iniesta nominated for 2012 Fifa Ballon d'Or

Fifa and France Football have announced that Lionel Messi, Andres Iniesta and Cristiano Ronaldo are the remaining three candidates in the running for the 2012 Fifa Ballon d'Or.

The Argentine has netted an impressive 82 goals since January.

Messi helped Barcelona to the Copa del Rey in 2011-12, while also guiding Argentina to top spot in their 2014 World Cup qualification section.


Ronaldo played a key role in Real Madrid's Liga triumph last term with his 46 league goals, and also made it to the semi-finals of Euro 2012 with Portugal.

Iniesta, meanwhile, triumphed with Spain at last summer's European Championship, as well as winning the Copa del Rey with the Blaugrana.

Who are you supporting..Messi , Ronaldo or Iniesta..am supporting Ronaldo..team real madrid :)

A Belgian Discovers His Wife Used To Be A Man After 19 Years

A Belgian is seeking to have his marriage annulled after discovering that his Indonesian wife of 19 years had been born a man.

The man, only named as Jan, married Monica, his family's former au pair in a previous marriage, in 1993 despite legal difficulties raised by the Belgian immigration authorities.

But it was only in recent weeks that he discovered that his wife had originally been a man and had undergone a sex change.

"I feel I've been assaulted," he told the Het Nieuwsblad newspaper.

"I brought her to Belgium. That was not easy. The Belgian courts had serious doubts about the authenticity of her birth and her identity papers, but eventually they accepted it anyway. I thought she was an attractive woman, all woman. She had no male traits."

Jan, 64, said that he and his wife had decided not to have children because he had two by his previous marriage and she fooled him by pretending to menstruate, using sanitary towels, "to conceal the truth".

"Even during sex, I never noticed anything," he said.
For many years the couple lived a normal family life and Monica, 48, was like a "big sister" to his children until their marriage started to come under strain when she got a new full-time job.

"Monica began to change very much," he said.

"My oldest son saw her sometimes at a nightclub. She began to wear very flashy clothes, those ultra-short skirts or tiny tops, so her abdomen was completely exposed."

Finally rumours began to surface and after Jan found "amorous messages" from other men on her computer, he confronted her in a violent row that led to the police being called.

"A friend told me that he had heard that Monica was actually a sex-changed man. I could not believe it. My son heard similar rumours," he said.

"I pushed her against the wall and said: Now I know the truth. Are you a man? She then announced that she was born as a boy and that she had been operated on. She was now a woman, and so she did not need to tell me about her past as a man. My world collapsed. That evening came to blows. The police came."

Jan, who is undergoing psychiatric treatment following the discovery, has started legal proceedings to have the marriage annulled but the Belgian courts have so far refused to allow him to turn her out of the familiy home.


Wow,this is really serious,put this man in your shoe..what will you do?

WATCH: Amanda - Feinak / أماندا - فينك Turning Up The Heat

Directors find it a lot easier filming music videos in parking lot, this way they have more control, less people moving around and better set management. So Amanda could film her music video underground wearing that glitter filed suit of hers. Amanda is from the gracious country of Lebanon where she has also filmed her debut music video. AMANDA is a new kid in the Lebanese pop neighborhood her first single 'Feinak' hit the airwaves and her music video is below.

For starter, the beat of the song is very exciting, it has the kind of music that feel like the thrill of starting an engine. Clearly guys are stupid, they like cars, and sexy ladies. This formula is cliche but it has been working for over a century of entertainment. I hate to be mean, because Amanda seems like star for this age but this path has been explored many times before. This is her happy moment and this is her first song, so let's cheer her on. She is a highly educated young woman who speaks three languages. In the song she is looking for her knight and shining armor

Amanda should stop chasing fame this way, she doe snot seem natural at it and this might be great news for Amanda the person not the artist. I see a solid career in modeling and in advertising for Amanda, the pop scene now is sort of like a death march. Maybe she can do both and settle on where she finds herself the most. This is her first music video--something she prepared and trained for for months.  

While the yellow suit turned me off, the blue outfit brought me back. Amanda is even heating thing up when she took that dress off to reveal even sexier dress. As for the song, it's your average dance pop song, nothing to make you say "wow", but the music video has plenty of those.

Amanda - Feinak / أماندا - فينك

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