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Third sequence to the series of latest entertainment news, on Arab artists.

As the Muslim world welcomes Ramadan 2011, set to start early next week, we wait with baited breath to see if the world will witness a time of peace and thanksgiving in the Middle East or an escalation in the unrest.

59 years on from the July 23 Revolution of 1952 and Egypt has come full circle to the January Revolution of 2011.

The second installment of the latest news on Arab entertainers.

These are the poster children and heroes of the Arab revolutions. Some are just that- children, kids who have been raised as human faces of an otherwise anonymous maelstrom of anonymous popular demonstrations.

The ghosts of Hama have come back to haunt the Assad regime. Today we find Hama once again a flash point for Syrian repression. Thirty years after its residents were massacred in one of the worst atrocities committed by an Arab regime against its own people, we look back at patterns between father and son, to glean what has changed since Hama's first 'incident' in 1982 from which a whole city has not really had closure nor healed.

Though it may seem as if the Palestinian solidarity movement suffered a dent and a sinking, it is actually Israel that was harshly beaten here, for Israel has managed to expose its level of hysteria: it seems that under 10 tatty yachts and a few hundred no frill air passengers have got Israel out of sorts and clamoring to manipulate international air and sea law.

Check out our panel of Lebanon's best "babe" of 2011.

It's official, South Sudan is now a new country...

While she was rarely without a male entourage or following - having married at least 4 times in life and 14 times on the big screen- she ended her life (possibly suicidally though more likely suspiciously) as do we all, quite starkly alone, and under the violent extreme dramatic finsih of a balcony fall in London that left her dead. She was still at the time married to Maher Awad.