RAFAH, Gaza Strip — Thousands of excited Gaza residents have mobbed the area's southern border crossing with Egypt to welcome home the winner of the Arab Idol talent contest. Around 4,000 people ...

He’s already scored in the football world. Now Arab Idol winner Mohammad Assaf is moving onto Formula One, with his first concert at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. Assaf, who performed at the Fifa World ...

Based on the real story of Mohammed Assaf's run on Arab Idol, the film follows a boy whose dreams as a singer eventually lead him into a tricky... Writer-director Hany Abu-Assad doesn't tell simple ...

Hany Abu-Assad delivers his most commercial effort to date with this crowdpleasing tale of a pop star's rise. After bringing a grim, laserlike focus to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in his ...

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