Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 61. Chapters: Diana Haddad, Najwa Karam, Nancy Ajram, Amal Hijazi, Fairuz, Majida El Roumi, Haifa Wehbe, Nawal Al Zoghbi, Hiba Kawas, Salwa Al Katrib, Suzanne Tamim, Abeer Nehme, Lydia Canaan, Nelly Makdessy, Maya Nasri, Cyrine Abdelnour, Hiba Tawaji, Carole Samaha, Sabah, Dominique Hourani, Elissa, Nicole Saba, Pascale Machaalani, Grace Deeb, Julia Boutros, Aline Khalaf, Aline Lahoud, Dolly Shahine, Dana Halabi, Bassima, Dina Hayek, Myriam Fares, Darine Hadchiti, Nourhanne, Razan Moughrabi, Brigitte Yaghi, May Nasr, Majdala, Pascale Sakr, Karol Sakr, Maria Nalbandian, Dania Khatib, Rola Saad, Nancy Nasrallah, Yara, Marwa, Madeline Matar. Excerpt: Diana Joseph Fouad Haddad (Arabic: --) (born in Bsalim, Lebanon on 1 October 1976) is a Lebanese singer and television personality with Emirati citizenship. Mainly known as Diana Haddad, she is one of the most popular and successful singers in the Arab World and has been so since the late 1990s. She was a record-breaker since her first song Saken in 1996, and she is still considered one of the most successful Arab female singers and one of the best selling singers in the Arab World. Haddad does not limit herself to one music style, she knows how to present a very wide range, moving from the most rhythmic songs to the slow romantic ones. Haddad first came to fame in 1993 when she just 16. While she was recording her first album she appeared on the Arabic talent show Studio El Fan in Beirut performing the traditional Lebanese folk song written by Elias Abou Azala Tayr El Yammameh which would be included on her first album Saken. Three years later, the release of her debut album Saken, which featured her single Saken, Lagaitek, a cover of Issam Rajji's old hit, and Al-Sahra. Soon, after she became a mother to her first child, a daughter Sophie. In 1997 she released one of the most successful albums in her discography, Ahl Al Esheg, which included the hit single Ahl Al Esheg. She released the most popular pop album of the 1990s Ammanih. In 2000s she released the more critically acclaimed and successful albums Awel Marrah and Diana 2006. In 2007 Haddad gave birth to her second daughter Mira in Dubai. On 30 October 2008, Haddad released her second long waited Khaliji (Gulf Arabic) album Men Diana Illa. In April 2009, Haddad was dubbed by the Arab press as being one of the year's most the influential Middle East artists. Haddad was born to a Maronite Christian father Joseph Haddad and a Shiite Muslim mother Mouna Haddad in a small village called Bsalim in Lebanon on 1 October 1976. Her talent was discovered at an early age when she won the televised talent show, Studio el F