| Ema Shah ايما شاه |
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| Born | June 7, 1981 |
| Origin | Kuwait |
| Genres | Arabic music, eastern music, classical music from Western culture |
| Occupations | Singer, musician, composer, dancer, pianist, guitarist, writer, puppeteer, theatrical actress, and theater director |
| Instruments | Piano, guitar |
Ema Shah (Arabic: ايما شاه) (born June 7, 1981) is a Kuwaiti singer, composer, pianist, guitarist, actress, writer, dancer and director. Her father is Kuwaiti and her mother is Iranian.
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Emma Shah studied opera, photography and films. She has attracted attention through her activism, radical views, humanitarian often controversial points of view and eccentricity. In addition to being a founding member and president of troupe Anthropology, she is a member of Team Force of the Rising Sun for brides in Kuwait, Kuwait Cinema Club, National Democratic Youth League, Kuwait Democratic Forum, Dubai Community Theater, Kuwaiti Human Rights Association and Club Business and Professional Women in Kuwait.
She made her debut stage appearance in Silence by Harold Pinter, followed by The rhinoceros by Eugène Ionesco 2004, The old women and the poet by Yukiomicemia, Debate between night and day by Mohammed Affendi Al-Gazairi, the clown "Monodrama Bantomim" (at the Mediterranean Peaple Festival-Italy) and The Meteor by Dorinmat.
In 2006, Emma established her group "Anthropology",joining actors from different nationalities, with performances, spectacles and songs in different languages, including Arabic, English, French, Japanese, Spanish. She has performed as a singer, pianist, composer and actress at various local and international events.
In 2011 she starred a short movie called "Swing", she also acted on a short movie called Mooz (Banana). The film containing sexual allusions won the jury prize at the Dubai International Film Festival.
She composed a collection of musicals inspired by books like "Jesus, the Son of Human", and The Prophet, written by Gibran Khalil Gibran, and performed them using piano and guitar on the Kuwait National Museum. She has also sung covers for many well known and international artists. She also took part in the musical We can not write on a black page. Her singles include "Shah" about her grandfather Shah Khan. She has sung lyrics written by, amongst others, Lebanese Elia Abu Madi, Saudi Malek Asfeer and Australian Miranda Lee.
Emma sparked a big controversy after singing "Hava Nagila" in Hebrew which led to her being accused of promoting Zionism and normalization of ties with Israel. International news agencies, Arab and Israeli media covered the story[1] and Los Angeles Times ran an article about the affair under the headline "Diva blasted by Islamic clerics for singing in Hebrew at club"[2] including reports of putting her on trial. There were also reported threats on her life. Shah explained that she sang the song as she wanted to go beyond borders, and break barriers in support of universal peace between nations.