The Voice Ahla Sawt

The Voice: Ahla Sawt The Voice أحلى صوت
Genre	Reality television
Created by	John de Mol
Presented by	Mohammad Kareem Nadine Njeim Arwa Gouda
Judges	Assi El Helani Sherine Saber Rebaï Kazem al-Saher
Country of origin	Arab World
Original language(s)	Arabic
No. of seasons	2
Broadcast
Original channel	MBC 1
Original run	September 14, 2012 – present
External links
Website

The Voice: Ahla Sawt (The Voice أحلى صوت) is an Arabic television show based on the popular Dutch show The Voice of Holland created by John de Mol and produced by Talpa Media Group. The first season of Arab World's version of The Voice debuted on September 14, 2012 and was broadcast worldwide from Beirut, Lebanon studios of MBC 1, a Pan Arab television station.^[1] This season's main host is Egyptian actor Mohammad Kareem ^[2] and Arwa Gouda. Nadine Njeim will host from backstage.

The format of the The Voice: Ahla Sawt will have three stages, which are the blind auditions, the battle rounds, and the live performances. In the blind auditions, each contestant will be allowed to sing for 90 seconds with each of the coaches having their backs to the singer. When a coach wants a singer on their team, the coach presses a red button that results in the chair being turned around to reveal who the singer is to that coach and the singer joining their team. If two or more coaches turn around for that singer, the singer gets to decide which team they want to join. Each coach will have select 12 singers to form their team from a group of 100 contestants.^[3]

Once the blind auditions finish, the battle rounds will begin where the coaches will pair two singers on each team to compete against each other singing the same song on stage. The coaches will then have to decide which contestant will stay and which will be eliminated. After a series of eliminations, live performances will occur where the public can decide which singer will represent the Arab World as "The Voice."

The winner of season 1 "The Voice Ahla Sawt" was Murad Bouriki from Team Assi who received the highest number of votes beating out Yousra Mahnouch, Farid Ghannam, and Qusai Hatem.

Due to the high ratings and the big popularity the series got in the Arab World, MBC renewed the show for a second season to be aired in 2013. All 4 coaches of season 1 will be back for season 2. The second season premiered on Saturday, December 28, 2013.

The Voice Coaches

• Kazem al-Saher - Iraqi composer-musician, singer and poet
• Sherine - Egyptian pop star and actress
• Assi El Helani - Lebanese singer
• Saber Rebaï - Tunisian composer-musician

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Series overview

Season	Period	Winner	Other Finalists	Winning Coach	Other Coaches	Channel
1	September 14 - December 14, 2012	Mourad Bouriki	Yousra Mahnouch Qusay Hatem Farid Ghannam	Assi Helani	Kazem al-Saher Saber Rebaï Sherine	LBCI MBC1
2	December 28, 2013- March 29, 2014	Sattar Saad	Simour Jalal Waham Hala Al Qasseer	Kazem al-Saher	Assi Helani Saber Rebaï Sherine	LBCI MBC1

The Voice Finalists

Color key

     – Winning coach and their team.

Winners are in bold, finalists in finale listed first, eliminated artists are in small font.

Season	Coaches
	Assi El Helani	Saber Rebaï	Sherine	Kazem al-Saher
1	Mourad Bouriki Mory Hatem Hassan Amarah Elie Asmar Marina Chebel Inas Lattouf	Qusay Hatem Lamia Zaidi Samer Abu Taleb Lamia Jamal Christian Abu Anni Mouna Rouqachi	Farid Ghannam Mohammad Adli Enji Amin Abdel Azeem El Zahabi Alaa Ahmad Yousra Mansour	Yousra Mahnouche Nour Ereksousi Xriss Jor Rouba Khouri Roni Shemali Radouan Koutaish
2	Hala Al-Kaseer Adnan Bresim Ghazi Al-Amir Reem Mehrat Amer Toofk Sahar Seddiki Rabih Jaber Nadia Haless	Simour Jalal Mohammed Fares Marwa Naggy Samer Al-Saeed Eyad al-Quassam Nancy Nasrallah Aida Mohammed Hossam Hosny	Wahm Nile Karar Salah Khaled El-Khayat Mohamed Dahleb Mahmoud Tourabi Wael Muallem Alaa Fouad	Sattar Saad Khaoula Moujahid Ammar Khattab Ahmad Hussein Ghazi Khattab Ingrid Bawab Sanae Abdel-Hamid Mehvan Saleh
	Stolen contestants italicized

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