{"id":6136,"date":"2015-10-13T22:05:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=6136"},"modified":"2015-10-13T22:05:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T21:05:49","slug":"assaf-wows-uk-fans-at-the-idol-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/assaf-wows-uk-fans-at-the-idol-premiere\/","title":{"rendered":"Assaf wows UK fans at \u2018The Idol\u2019 premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Assaf.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6137\" src=\"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Assaf.jpg\" alt=\"Assaf\" width=\"275\" height=\"183\" \/><\/a>Palestinian pop star Mohammad Assaf attended the London Film Festival premiere of \u2018The Idol\u2019, the film inspired by his rise to fame, on Monday night, the Gulf News reported.<br \/>\nAssaf walked the red carpet with his fiancee, TV presenter Lina Qishawi, the film\u2019s director, Oscar-nominee Hany Abu Assad and Waleed Al Ebrahim, the chairman of MBC Group, co-producer of the film and also owner of the Arab Idol franchise.<br \/>\nShot in the Gaza Strip, Jenin and other areas of the Palestinian territories in addition to the Dead Sea in Jordan, \u2018The Idol\u2019 is inspired by Assaf\u2019s life \u2014 from his humble beginnings in a refugee camp to his path toward stardom and win of the singing reality show in 2013.<br \/>\n\u201cEntire generations grew up on the pulse of the Palestinian cause, with unfortunate setbacks and disappointments; however, today \u2018Arab Idol Assaf\u2019 \u2014 who came out from the heart of Palestinian suffering \u2014 carries with him headlines of hope filling the hearts of tens of thousands of young Palestinians\u201d Al Ebrahim said.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/assaf-wows-uk-fans-at-the-idol-premiere\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian pop star Mohammad Assaf attended the London Film Festival premiere of \u2018The Idol\u2019, the film inspired by his rise to fame, on Monday night, the Gulf News reported. Assaf walked the red carpet with his fiancee, TV presenter Lina Qishawi, the film\u2019s director, Oscar-nominee Hany Abu Assad and Waleed Al Ebrahim, the chairman of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[27,25],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6138,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6136\/revisions\/6138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}