Bismarck Tribune · Bismarck, North Dakota · 27 February 2017

CP-2017-011

Palestinians celebrate singer crowned Arab Idol winner

Associated Press

Transcribed from the clipping

“BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Palestinians are celebrating a Christian crooner from the West Bank city of Bethlehem who won this year’s Arab Idol, the Arab world’s premier television song competition. Yacoub Shaheen, 22, beat finalists Ameer Dandan from an Arab town in northern Israel and Ammar Mohammed from Yemen.

Shaheen is the second Palestinian to win the Arab world’s version of American Idol. In 2013, Palestinian…”

Context added by this archive

Yacoub Shaheen, 22, of Bethlehem, wins the Arab world’s biggest television song contest, and the second word the story uses about him is

Christian. It is one of the few places in this archive where an American paper says so plainly, without treating it as a curiosity, and it is a music story rather than a religion one.

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"Palestinians celebrate singer crowned Arab Idol winner," Bismarck Tribune, 27 February 2017. Covering Palestine archive, CP-2017-011. https://coveringpalestine.org/archive/cp-2017-011

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