Khalas Sameht

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'Khalas Sameht خلاص سامحت'

Studio album by Nawal Al Zoghbi

Released

2008

Recorded

2007-2008

Rotana

Rotana

Nawal Al Zoghbi chronology

Yama Alou
(2006)

Khalas Sameht
(2008)

TBA
(2008)

Khalas Sameht (Arabic: خلاص سامحت‎) (English: Enough, I Forgive You) is the 2008 album by Nawal Al Zoghbi. The album is Nawal's 12th album and is her first to be released after returning to the production company Rotana. The album was released on the evening of January 22, 2008 in Lebanon and internationally on the 23rd of January 2008. It consists of 8 Arabic songs, 6 in the Egyptian accent and 2 in the Lebanese accent, earlier albums of Nawal contained more than eight songs, but this album ("Khalas Sameht") is really different because every song is a hit on its own. From the first day of its launch, this album quickly reached the top^{[citation needed]}; after only five days the album is number one at Virgin Megastore, and it really pushed away all the competition.

1 Track Listing
2 Promos
3 Music videos
4 Sales
5 External Links

[edit] Track Listing

#	Title	Composer	Arranger	String arrangements
1	Leih Mushta'alak	Mohamed El Nadi	Touma	Hani Farhat
2	Albi Asalou	Hisham Bolis	Hadi Charara	Hadi Charara
3	Khalas Sameht	Mohamed Rahim	Adel Haqi	Hani Farhat
4	El Hawa We Amailou	Mohamed El Nadi	Khaled Ezz	Hani Farhat
5	Law Kan	Ramy Gamal	Wissam	Tamer Ghunaim
6	Tigi Mennak	Mohamed Yehia	Tarek Madkour	Yehya El Moji
7	Ma Tes'al Alaya	Riyad El Hamshari	Tareq Aakef	Tareq Aakef
8	Shou Hal Alb	Hisham Bolis	Hadi Charara	Hadi Charara

[edit] Promos

Rotana began advertising the coming of this album in the beginning of January 2008, with large billboards in cities across the Arab world, and television adverts that showed the phrase: NZ "Sawa Min Jadeed سوا من جديد" (English: Back Together); the NZ standing for Nawal Al Zoghbi.

Then on the 14th January 2008, Rotana began airing an advert on radio stations and TV stations which played samples of four of the songs from the new album, Khalas Sameht, Albi Isa'lo, Moshta'lak and Shu Hal Alb. The samples were accompanied by a code number that could be used to phone up and listen to high quality samples of these songs. Samples of all the songs from the album were then played on Emirates FM radio in the UAE.

On the 21st of January 2008, large billboards displaying pictures of Nawal, from the photo shoot of the album, were displayed in many locations throughout Cairo and Beirut.

[edit] Music videos

Albi Asalou (Arabic: قلبي اسألو‎)

screen shot from the clip

This video was directed by Yehya Saade in Terble Bekaa Lebanon, on the 6th of January, 2008. The video has a romantic theme with a dance beat. The video was released on 5th February 2008.

This song is written by Mounir Bou Assaf, Composed by Hicham Bolous, and arranged by the famous Lebanese arranger Hadi Charara.

The clip is based on the concept of love and war, and is shown to us as a mixture of daydreams and reality; expressing emotions of concern and anguish, fear of loss and hope of return.

Nawal plays a village woman who lives in a small house with her groom, the walls draped with white curtains. in the first scene we see Nawal in the kitchen preparing food, as her husband is in the bedroom emitting mixed emotions of responsibility and leaving his love all alone. She lends her hand to prepare his clothing and gives him food before he leaves for battle. He tells her not to come after him, and Nawal is in grief and pain.

In the second scene Nawal is walking through the streets of the village, thinking about him. The scene is mixed between reality and daydreaming as we enter into a lit area, a “twilight zone.” Nawal and her husband are lost and looking for one another between the white curtains.

The final scene shows Nawal in the battle field with soldiers walking passed her. She sees rifles, blood and faces passing by her, one after another she searches for him amidst them and she doesn’t see him. Then she sees him and the sky freezes perhaps to symbolize the cleanliness of the feelings. They approach each other, and reach out, but pass each other. He goes with the other soldiers into the sunlight, with flowers sticking out of their weapons. In the end, she is left alone in the battle field, and wraps her shawl around her.

Recently she has stated that she will be doing the video of 'Lieh Moushtalak'. It should be noted that Nawal's fans voted on the song to be the next video Nawal shoots.

[edit] Sales

Only one month after the album release, the album was the only album which moved Elissa's Album - Ayami Beek- from # 1 Album category in the Arab World.^{[citation needed]}

Lebanon 4 days after the album was released, it reached # 2 in Virgin Megastores Lebanon^{[citation needed]}. One week later it reached the # 1 album, and as of March 25th 2008, the album remains constant.^{[citation needed]}

UAE On the second day, the album was # 1 in Dubai, # 2 in Abu Dhabi, and # 2 all over the Emirates.^{[citation needed]}

Egypt Egypt is considered as the most important Album Sailing point in the Middle East since its citizens are more than 70 million. However, after the release of Nawal's album - Khalas Sameht- it stayed # 2 for two weeks, where as Elissa's album was #1 . Two weeks later, the album succeeded to move Ayyami Beek and occupy the first place, and it remains, and observers say that it may stay for a long time because the album is considered as a huge hit for the year 2008 despite the huge success of Elissa.^{[citation needed]} Rotana stated that Elissa and Nawal's albums were the most selling albums of 2008, and they are the "best chanced' albums to win the World Music Award for the most sailing album of the year 2008 in the Middle East.^{[citation needed]}

Persian Gulf and Peninsula The album was # 1 for 4 weeks, and will remain at that spot for a long time in the close future due to observers.^{[citation needed]}

Syria and Jordan All the Arab World including Syria and Jordan, have helped the album stay at # 1.^{[citation needed]}