Mohammed Assaf Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Mohammed Assaf Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Mohammad Jaber Abdul Rahman Assaf (Arabic: محمد جبر

عبدالرحمن عسا٠‎; born 1 September 1989) is a

Palestinian pop singer well known for being the winner of the second

season of Arab Idol, broadcast by the MBC network. His victory

received worldwide coverage from the media and was welcomed with joy

by Palestinians and the rest of the Arab world. In 2013, Assaf was

named a goodwill ambassador for peace by The United Nations Relief and

Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). He was also named

ambassador of culture and arts by the Palestinian government and was

offered a position with "diplomatic standing" by the Palestinian

president Mahmood Abbas. Assaf's story is the basis of the 2015 film

The Idol, directed by Hany Abu-Assad. After Arab Idol, Assaf has gone

on to enjoy huge popularity in the Arab World and the Arab diaspora

and has released two albums and a great number of singles and

collaborations. Most of his music is sung in Iraqi, Khallegi dialect

not a Palestinian one.He was born in Misrata, Libya to Palestinian

parents. He lived there until he was 4 years old, when his parents

moved back to Gaza, he grew up in Khan Younis refugee camp to a middle

class couple where he attended UNRWA elementary school. His mother's

family hails from the village of Bayt Daras, which was captured and

depopulated by the nascent IDF in 1948 and his father's family is from

Beersheba. Assaf's parents moved to Khan Yunis Refugee Camp when he

was four years old. He is one of six siblings, three of whom,

including Assaf, have been involved in performing live music. Assaf's

mother Intisar, a mathematics teacher, has stated that Assaf began

singing at the age of five and "had a voice of someone who was much,

much older." Before his role on the television show he was attending

Gaza City's Palestine University majoring in media and public

relations. Assaf did not have professional training as a singer; he

started his career singing at weddings and other private events. He

entered the public view in 2000 during a popular local television

program where he called in and sung a nationalist song to the host's

praise. Afterward, he was frequently offered contracts with local

record companies. Sometime after his first performance, he sang in a

local event in Gaza attended by late Palestinian president Yasser

Arafat.Mohammad Assaf traveled from Gaza Strip to Egypt to audition

for Arab Idol. It took him two days to reach Egypt by car due to

complications on the border. At the beginning, he had to convince the

Egyptian security at the border crossing, where he was stuck for two

days, to leave Gaza. Once he reached the hotel where the auditions

were taking place, the doors were closed in which they did not accept

anymore auditions so he jumped over the wall. After he jumped over the

wall, he couldn't get a number to audition; he sat hopelessly in the

hall where other contestants were waiting for their turn. He started

singing to the contestants, and a Palestinian contestant, Ramadan Abu

Nahel, who was waiting to audition heard him and gave him his number

saying, "I know I won't reach the finals but you will."
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