A new feature this year, the show used a special song to make a tribute to an eliminated contestant's journey on the show, as opposed to before when various different melodic music compositions were played. The first season premiered on 9 December 2011. The winner of the talent competition will be announced in Beirut, and the stakes are high for one young hopeful from the Gaza Strip. San Francisco, California 5. The Top 12 was completed on 24 April.

The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in the Arab World. Arab Idol is an Arabic television show of a variety of talents ad not only music performance, based on the popular British show Pop Idol created by Simon Fuller's 19 Entertainment and developed by Fremantle Media and recorded in Beirut, Lebanon. Austin, Texas (later stages of auditions were held in San Francisco because of Hurricane Katrina and the number of evacuees in Texas) 7. Chicago, Illinois 2. For the 1968 Institutional Act Number 5, in Brazil, see Top 3 – Clive Davis's choice/Judges' choice/Contestants' choiceTop 2 – Previous Song/Another Previous Song/Winning SongTop 2 – Previous Song/Another Previous Song/Winning SongThese auditions included many who returned to later seasons, such as As of 12 December 2005, the competition of Super Star has been delayed due to the assassination of Lebanese senator On 15 January 2006, the competition was once again postponed due to the passing of another key political figure, On 10 April 2006, the following audition cities were revealed on the official Future TV website: Once again this season, special musical guests have been invited to the show to offer their support & critiques. Arabs Got Talent is an Arab reality television talent show broadcast by MBC4 in the Arab world; it is produced by the MBC and was first broadcast on 14 January 2011. There were three live shows each week for the three weeks of the semifinals. British talent search series Pop Idol has spawned dozens of spin-offs in over 30 countries, in the what is now referred to as the Idols format (as described by FremantleMedia). Auditions were held in On finale night, 25 February 2017 Yacoub Shaheen from

The final two contestants performed three times.

The first season of Arab Idol was launched on MBC 1 on 9 December 2011. Thousands of screaming fans have gathered at the Rafah crossing, between Gaza and Egypt, to greet homecoming Arab Idol winner Mohammed Assaf. The fifth season of reality television singing competition American Idol began on January 17, 2006, and concluded on May 24, 2006.

Auditions were held in seven cities in the summer and early fall of 2005 in the following order: 1. Foxborough, Massachusetts (Greater Boston) Unlike Season 4, no guest judge… Names of contestants, their countries of origin and date of elimination: The Top 9 females performed on 6 April and Top 11 males performed on 13 April.

It has been surpassed by Star Academy as the number one Arab show, and did not move the Arab world the way it did during the first season. Yaqoub Shaheen beat out an Arab-Israeli who now resides in the U.S. and a Yemeni competitor on Saturday’s final of the talent show. For the first time of Arab Idol history 2 of the last 3 contestants were Palestinian. This year, the song used for an eliminated contestant's flashback tribute was "This was the first season in which the free US public service website, The fifth-season contestant with the most commercial success is fourth-place finisher Chris Daughtry, now lead singer of the band Season five is the season from the first ten seasons of The compilation album for this season was performed by the top twelve finalists. The first winner of the format was Will Young of the United Kingdom in 2002. On finale night, February 25, 2017 Yacoub Shaheen from Palestine was crowned the winner of the fourth season of Arab Idol in a tough competition against Ameer Dandan from Palestine and Ammar Mohammed from Yemen. It featured Taylor Hicks and Katharine McPhee competing for the title of winner of American Idol.. Taylor Hicks was declared the winner after 63.4 million votes cast.. Contestants' Performances Edit.