CAIRO: Egyptian pop singer Amr Diab has reached yet another milestone in his illustrious musical career. Guinness World Records listed Diab as the top Arab multi-international award winning musician and the best selling Middle Eastern musician since 1989.
Ahmed Gabr, member of Guinness jury, handed over the award to Diab in his Cairo office.
Diab has been awarded the World Music Award for the best selling Middle Eastern Artist seven times between 1998 and 2014.
Diab launched his latest album Ahla W Ahla at the beginning of the summer season 2016. The album copies ran out of Virgin Store on the first day in Egypt. The album ranked 19 internationally, a precedent for an Arab artist, and ranked first on iTunes in the Arab world.
Diab ranked first on iTunes as well when he launched his albums in 2013 and 2014.
According to BBC, he has ruled the Arab music world, specially Egypt and the Middle East, since mid 80s, continually breaking sales records. His songs has been translated to more than seven different languages. The six-time World Music Awards Winner, Amr Diab, is the Founder of Mediterranean Music.
Amr Diab was born on Oct. 11, 1961 in Portsaid, Egypt. At the age of six, Amr sang at the July 23rd Festival in Portsaid, he was surprisingly awarded a guitar from the governor for his excellence.
One of his best songs of all time is Nour El-Ain, which wasn't a success only in the Middle East but in the whole world.
Amr Diab's hard work and passion to creating music and new stylized musical techniques was his ultimate aim throughout the years. He has certainly delivered to all his fans around the globe and proved that he is one of the best Middle Eastern singers with extraordinary talent, determination, charisma and charming appearance.
Can’t beat this! Amr Diab enters Guinness Records
Can’t beat this! Amr Diab enters Guinness Records
European gas prices ease as market seeks clarity on Qatari LNG supply
OSLO: Dutch and British gas prices were slightly lower on Wednesday morning, after soaring earlier this week, but could remain volatile as the market tries to gauge how long Qatari supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) will remain disrupted.
The benchmark Dutch front-month contract at the TTF hub was down €1.02 at €53.27 per megawatt hour by 10:18 a.m. GMT, data from the Intercontinental Exchange showed.
It hit an intraday day high of €65.79/MWh, its highest level since January 2023 on Tuesday but fell by €10 again by the end of the day.
The British April contract was down 3.92 pence at 137.07 pence per therm, ICE data showed.
The gas market has been jolted by the US-Israeli war on Iran and retaliatory attacks across the Middle East, halting Qatari LNG production and shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. The US Navy could begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hormuz if necessary, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, but analysts questioned whether this really could revive energy transports that have ground to a halt.
“As long as Iran is able to launch missiles and drones over the water, we doubt that this will materially improve the situation,” said Arne Lohmann Rasmussen, chief analyst at Global Risk Management.
Outbound LNG volumes through the Strait of Hormuz are expected to account for around 17 percent of global supply in 2026, or roughly 337 million cubic meters per day, said Ross Wyeno, head of LNG short-term analysis at S&P Global Energy.
“Of those volumes, we estimate that around 170 mcm/day will be delivered to buyers that will need to immediately source replacement cargoes from the global spot markets or existing long-term contracts,” he added.
This is around 30 percent of expected European imports in 2026, Wyeno added for comparison.
The EU has told its member countries it does not see any immediate effect from the conflict in Iran on the security of natural gas supply, and is not currently planning response measures at national or EU level.
Meanwhile, the Russian-flagged liquefied natural gas tanker Arctic Metagaz, sanctioned by the US and Britain, caught on fire in the Mediterranean, with Russian on Wednesday blaming the incident on a Ukrainian attack.
EU gas storage sites were last 29.9 percent full, with depletion having slowed as milder weather limited demand, Gas Infrastructure Europe data showed.
In the European carbon market, the benchmark contract was down €1.13 at €72.20 a tonne.
