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سوبر ستار
Super Star Finalists
(with dates of elimination)
Season 1 (2003)
Diana Karazon Winner
Rouwayda Attieh August 18
Melhem Zein August 11
Saoud Abou Sultan August 4
Wael Mansour July 28
Merhi Serhal July 21
Shadi Aswad July 14
Mohammad Lafi July 7
Saad Jamal Al-Dine June 30
Haytham Saeed June 30
Nancy Zabalawi June 23
Saber Hawari June 23
Season 2 (2004)
Ayman El Aatar Winner
Ammar Hassan August 23
Hadi Aswad August 16
Ranim Qteit August 9
Brigitte Yaghi August 2
Mohannad Mshallah July 26
Houssam Madanieh July 19
Abir Nameh July 12
Abd El Rahman Mohamed July 12
Houssam Chami June 28
Mohamed Daoud June 21
Wa'ad El Bahry June 14
Mustafa Shwiekh June 14
Raneen El Sha'ar June 7
Zahi Saffeyeh June 7
Rania Shaban May 31
Yasmine El Husaini May 31
Season 3 (2005-2006)
Ibrahim El Hakami Winner
Shahd Barmada February 6
Ayman Lseeq January 30
Ahmed El Faleh January 23
Asma Othmani January 23
Nancy Nasrallah January 9
Haitham El Shoumali January 2
Ibrahim Abd El Adheem December 26
Asma Ben Ahmed December 19
Hatem Adar December 19
Samar Andeel December 5
Yusra Hamzawi November 28
Season 4 (2007)
Nesma El Kurdi
Rehab Saleh
Yusra Mahnoush
Saad El Mjarred
Ahmad Hussein
Mustafa Said
Youssef Bara
Fadi Abd El Khaliq
Ibrahim Ashri
Marwan Ali
Rawda Bin Abdallah March 26
Elian Ba'ini March 19
Nada Omar March 19

Super Star (سوبر ستار) is an Arabic television show based on the popular British show Pop Idol created by Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment & developed by Fremantle Media. The show unites the Arab community by democratically choosing the next singing sensation. The show is broadcast worldwide on Future TV, a Lebanese television station. Its also the first Idol franchise to feature contestants from multiple countries.

The show was a huge success. Ali Jaber, the executive manager of Future TV, was quoted as saying "This (program) is the most successful for an Arab television. There isn't a television program that moved the Arab world like that." [1]

However, Superstar was eclipsed by rival show Star Academy on LBC in the Middle East, in terms of popularity and ratings, after only its first season. It has been surpassed by Star Academy as the number one Arab show, and doesn't move the Arab world the way it did during the first season. In addition, none of the contestants on Superstar have managed to equal the sales and popularity of Ahmed El-Sharif, a contestant from Star Academy Season 1.


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[edit] SuperStar El Alaam

Diana Karazon participated alongside 10 other Idols in the 2 show mini-event World Idol, Diana placed equal 9th place with German SuperStar Alexander Klaws on 45 points. Diana performed the first radio single from her CD Super Star El Arab - Ensani Ma Binsak.

Diana received the following scores respectively:
UK awarded 4 points
Belgium awarded 1 point
Australia awarded 4 points
USA awarded 8 points
Pan-Arab Nations awarded 12 points (default award)
Poland awarded 1 point
The Netherlands awarded 1 point
Canada awarded 5 points
Germany awarded 6 points
Norway awarded 2 points
South Africa awarded 1 point

[edit] SuperStar 2

Three new audition cities were announced - Tunisia, Bahrain & Paris, France while Algiers was dropped. Tonia Moreeb decided to quit after receiving bad comments about her judging skills in the previous season. She was replaced with music critic/agent Fadia Tanab. An amazing 83 contestants had advanced to the semi finals of Super Star 2, 81 ended up performing before 2 contestants each week would advance to become part of the Top 14 contestants. This series also offered a Wildcard show where it was revealed by the CEO of Future TV - Ali Jaber, that the Top 14 would become a Top 17 & that the Top 5 vote getters in the Wildcards would advance.

Ayman El Aatar from Janzour, Libya won the title of Super Star on August 23 2004, beating runner up Palestinian Ammar Hassan.

It was revealed later that Ayman had missed the audition in Cairo, Egypt by one day & had one last chance to audition in Damascus, Syria.

[edit] Special guests

[edit] SuperStar 3

The telecast of Super Star 3 was delayed after the assassination of Future TV Founder & Lebanese Prime Minister - Rafik Hariri, as the TV station went into mourning.

Super Star 3 is currently the longest Idol production ever with auditions beginning in Cairo on November 10, 2004, with the program culminating on February 6, 2006.

Rania Kurdi did not want to renew her hosting position for Season 3, as a result Heba Sisi was hired for Season 3, but due to the lengthy hiatus over the Hariri scandal, her contract prematurely ended before the semi finals had begun, leaving Ayman to host solo for the rest of the season.

Auditions took place in the following cities:

94 contestants advanced to the theatre round in Beirut. 6 from America, 4 from Australia, 21 from Lebanon, 8 from Egypt, 5 from Jordan, 9 from Syria, 32 from Tunisia & 5 from UAE.

The new semi final format from Denmark & America was similarly adopted this season whereby the Top 21 (10 male & 11 female) were placed in male & female groups with 5 contestants advancing to the Top 12.

The semi finalists of Super Star 3 are:
Samar Andeel (Egypt), Aida El Rahbani (Lebanon), Nancy Nasrallah (Lebanon), Rashel El Rasi (Lebanon), Hasna Zlagh (Morocco), Shahd Barmada (Syria), Asma Ben Ahmed (Tunisia), Asma Othmani (Tunisia), Fouzia El Betri (Tunisia), Olfa El Barhoumi (Tunisia), Yusra Hamzawi (Tunisia), Mohamed El Abd (Egypt), Mohamed Jamal (Egypt), Ahmed El Faleh (Iraq), Youssef Kazar (Iraq), Ibrahim Abd El Adheem (Libya), Hatem Adar (Morocco), Haitham El Shoumali (Palestine), Ibrahim El Hakami (Saudi Arabia), Anis Ltaief (Tunisia), Ayman Lseeq (Tunisia)

As of December 12 2005, the competition of Super Star has been delayed due to the assassination of Lebanese senator Gebran Tueni, the results show scheduled to air on Monday December 12 2005 will be included with the results due on Monday December 19 2005.

On January 15 2006, the competition was once again postponed due to the passing of another key political figure, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. The performance show was recorded on Tuesday & aired on Thursday January 19. The votes from this round will be combined with the performance show on January 22 with the elimination of 2 contestants.

On the evening of Monday February 6, 2006, Ibrahim El Hakami from Saudi Arabia became the 3rd Super Star over Shahd Barmada with a 53% to 47% weighting. Along with the title of Super Star, Ibrahim also won a Ford Focus.

[edit] Special guests

Once again this season, special musical guests have been invited to the show to offer their support & critiques.

[edit] SuperStar 4

Season 4 of Super Star was officially confirmed of the season 3 Grand Final.

On April 10 2006, the following audition cities were revealed on the official Future TV website:

Auditions took place during Fall 2006 and the new season premiered on Future TV in late January 2007, one week after the premier of the sixth season of American Idol. The show airs on Sundays.

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