DUBAI: Dubbed the “Queen of the Stage” by the Arab media, Lebanese superstar Myriam Fares is set to perform in Cyprus on April 28, it was announced on Sunday.
The singer, dancer and actress will take to the stage at the Elexus Hotel Resort & Spa in the city of Girne, treating local fans to a flavor of the Middle East.
Myriam, 34, is set to perform a clutch of her most popular songs, including “Aman,” “Ana Wel Shoq” and others.
She will swing her hips and sing her heart out four days before her birthday on May 3 and shared the announcement on her social media pages, posting a poster for the concert in which she is wearing a backless magenta dress and clutching a cobalt blue electric guitar.
Fares is set to entertain fans in Cyprus fresh off a sojourn in London, where she stayed at the Shangri-La Hotel and posted a flurry of photos of her time in the city.
In many of the photos, she can be seen posing in front of floor-to-ceiling windows that showcase the expansive British capital, including Tower Bridge and the River Thames. She shared photos of everything from her tea breaks to her workout sessions and also posted a snap of herself at a food market, standing dangerously close to a bakery full of good old carbohydrates.
The singer, who is as famous for her curly locks as she is for her music, released her first album in 2003 and made her acting debut with TV soap opera “Itiham” in 2014. Later that year, she played the role of Tinkerbell in a musical version of Disney’s “Peter Pan” in the UAE.
Fares has released five studio albums to date and broke a record on music streaming service Anghami for the most played artist and most played album for her fifth album “Aman.”
The Lebanese powerhouse is married to American businessman Danny Mitri and has a son called Jayden, who was born in February 2016.
Earlier this year, fans went wild online when she shared an Instagram post showing off her son’s curly hair.
“Like mother, like son,” one follower commented on her Instagram post. “It’s unbelievable how much his hair looks like yours,” another wrote.
Myriam Fares to perform in Cyprus
Myriam Fares to perform in Cyprus
Director Kaouther Ben Hania rejects Berlin honor over Gaza
DUBAI: Kaouther Ben Hania, the Tunisian filmmaker behind “The Voice of Hind Rajab,” refused to accept an award at a Berlin ceremony this week after an Israeli general was recognized at the same event.
The director was due to receive the Most Valuable Film award at the Cinema for Peace gala, held alongside the Berlinale, but chose to leave the prize behind.
On stage, Ben Hania said the moment carried a sense of responsibility rather than celebration. She used her remarks to demand justice and accountability for Hind Rajab, a five-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israeli soldiers in Gaza in 2024, along with two paramedics who were shot while trying to reach her.
“Justice means accountability. Without accountability, there is no peace,” Ben Hania said.
“The Israeli army killed Hind Rajab; killed her family; killed the two paramedics who came to save her, with the complicity of the world’s most powerful governments and institutions,” she said.
“I refuse to let their deaths become a backdrop for a polite speech about peace. Not while the structures that enabled them remain untouched.”
Ben Hania said she would accept the honor “with joy” only when peace is treated as a legal and moral duty, grounded in accountability for genocide.
