Dounia Batma: ‘King Mohamed VI Voted for Me’

22/03/2012
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The talented young Moroccan artist, Dounia Batma, is calling Moroccans to support her and vote for her to win the title of the first edition of Arab Idol TV program, broadcasted on MBC channel.

Dounia Batma, from Morocco, and Karmen Soulaymen, from Egypt, are the two finalists who will compete for the title of Arab Idol, which will be a turning point in the winner’s life for all the advantages it offers.

The winner will get three significant prizes: a contract with Plantinum Records Company, which will produce Arab Idol winner’s first album, an ad with Pepsi Company and a Chevrolet Corvette.

In a press conference at one of the hotels in Casablanca, Dounia Batma expressed her great happiness and satisfaction with the prestigious success that she has managed to realize and with the wonderful reception by her fans at Mohamed V airport in Casablanca.

Dounia Batma seized the opportunity to clarify that the launch of her artistic career from the Middle East is due to the opportunities that can be offered there but not in Morocco, adding that “the launch of my artistic career from the East won’t affect my contribution to the promotion of Moroccan art, and won’t also affect my pride of my mother tongue”.

A lot of Moroccans have noticed how Dounia Batma sticks to her mother tongue whenever she is asked to speak in front of the audience on MBC channel, and she doesn’t switch to another Arabic dialect as most Moroccan artists usually do. During the press conference, Batma emphasized the fact that she would always make sure to sing and communicate in Moroccan dialect. She added that she sees Asmae Monawar and Houda Saad as two good examples of Moroccan artists who are proud of Moroccan art.

Concerning her former experience in Studio 2M and her elimination from the contest , which stirred a lot of controversy at that time, Dounia didn’t want to give straight answers considering her participation in Studio 2M, which she just described as a mere experience that she prefers not to talk about all the time and that what matters to her now is that she is known at the Arab world level.

Dounia seized the chance to express her admiration of the voice of the Jordanian candidate Youssef Arafat, who was eliminated from the program last Saturday, claiming that he deserves Arab Idol title.

From another perspective, and according to Al Massae daily newspaper, there is some news that tells that Maroc Telecom Company will offer a free SMS service to its clients this Friday and Saturday so as to support and vote for Dounia Batma to win Arab Idol title.

According to the news website ‘Goud’, Dounia Batma declared that king Mohamed VI voted for her in previous phases of the program of Arab Idol.

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By Yassmine Zerrouki

Morocco World News

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5 Responses to Dounia Batma: ‘King Mohamed VI Voted for Me’

  1. Khairi on 25/03/2012 at 15:19

    It is really a big shock to hear that Karmin won Arab Idol contest.
    We want to know how many calls (votes) you have received from each country.
    Karmin won because the density of Arab population is concentrated in Egypt who voted for Karmin for one reason, “she is Egyptian”.
    I found the outcome as a great disappointment for the majority of decent viewers. The Egyptian population is 3 times higher than Moroccan population.
    Dunia Batma should have won the competition. This mistake was done previously “on Arab got talent”.
    My suggestions (this is to avoid discriminated votes in selecting the Arab stars of the future);
    In future contest, the organisers should limit the number of calls coming from each country to avoid national discrimination in nominating the Arab stars of the future . (for example a maximum of 10000 or whatsoever from each Arabic country)
    You should show to the viewers the number of votes you are receiving from each country.
    Or
    The final contest (the last 3 rounds. should be selected by a group of independent judges (for example 10 ).
    Or
    From the audience making sure, there are present an even number of people from each Arabic country.

  2. fatima on 26/03/2012 at 15:08

    مرحبا انا من المغرب فاطمة كان لديك لكان خطأك ولكن العلامة التجارية بيبسي كما يتم تدريس نحن في الغناء، وكذلك كنت أنا دائما أقول أريد أن أكون أكثر مساواة إلى باطما دنيا أنت أفضل أنت أميرة والمعبود العربي وأفضل مطرب في المغرب أن كارمن لم يكن لديهم إلى أن يقدموا لكم مقابل قال ra3ib لاما لك حتى لا يكون حزينا كنت وقالت الأميرة العربي المعبود دنيا دنيا دنيا كنت ملكة المعبود العربي

    كنت أفضل

    فاطمة الزهراء من المغرب zidouh

  3. abdelghani on 28/03/2012 at 22:33

    je me join completement au observations faite par khairi.
    manque de transparense….ou sont les resultats par chiffres et pourcentage ?? ou est le fameux enveloppe contenant les resultats final !! et livree au presentateurs par un juge neutre !!

  4. houssine on 30/03/2012 at 18:10

    bonjour jai suivis des les premier jours le vendredi et le samedi et jai constater que DOUNIA BATMA est la meilleurs elle a une tres bon voix et encore elle a le soufle elle est un peut megre mes elle est tres forte , pour les votes ya quelque chose qui est cacher pourquoi ne pas montres les resultas comme le start academis? ;vive dounia batma pour moi cest elle la STAR ;oujdi

  5. bachir on 17/04/2012 at 23:11

    salam dounia saraha konti rai3a kane al adaa dialak aktar min jamil osaraha hata nass dial 2m yechofo daba chkoun ali kan lazim yekoun fi martaba aloula fi mosabakate 2m,hata al motasabika iman karkibo ali kanate fazate hadak al 3amayen wakila ;fakane fark kbir bezzaf binak o binaha saraha bayanti ana warti 3amak faniyan ,lakine narja3 onkoulak kade ama konti dkiya fi khtiyar al aghani dialak o labika fi kalamak ma3a lajnate tahkim ,fa saraha rtakabti ba3de al aghlate ,famakanch 3alik tghani ighniya li abdlouhabedakali fi nihayate ,konti takhtari 3al akal ahade aghani al marhoume mohammed al hayani bi alogha al 3arabiya,aw oghniya khalijiya ,ohaja okhra konti3al akal tghani ahade aghani rarib 3alama li anaho saraha kane taysandak obkowa; konti 3al akal tghani chi wahda lih ;voila kankolah bon chance.

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