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April 14, 2013 Viewers of a pan-Arab talent show were mesmerized after hearing a participant from Iraq’s semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan singing in Kurdish and for the first time in the show’s history. Despite not understanding Barwas Hussien when...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD2PykvhIeo The Arab world has crowned a winner. Yacoub Shaheen , a 22-year-old Palestinian heartthrob from Bethlehem, has been named the champion of this year's Arab Idol singing competition. He beat out two other dashing...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians are celebrating a Christian crooner from the West Bank city of Bethlehem who won this year’s Arab Idol, the Arab world’s premier television song competition. Yacoub Shaheen, 22, beat finalists Ameer Dandan from...

In the Arab world's version of American Idol, a young singer from the isolated Gaza Strip is hitting the high notes of Palestinian hope. Supporters say a victory by Mohammad Assaf, a finalist in the competition, would be a victory for art, which has...

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Hundreds of Palestinian youths lined up outside a luxury hotel at the crack of dawn on Monday for a chance to compete in the Arab world's premier talent show, hoping to follow the unlikely example of last year's winner...