LBC's "هزي يا نواعم" – World Bellydance Championship: Disappointing Finale
I am so very disappointed after watching the finale of LBC’s World Bellydance Championship. The winner, Estelle, did not deserve to win in this episode as far as I saw. Layla, the Ukrainian dancer, did extremely well and she was outrageously discriminated against by the judges who kept on repeating the same old tired lines: she can’t speak Arabic, she doesn’t have the bellydance gene (supposedly this is born with Arabs, HAH!?), she didn’t sing with the song. Rubbish!!! Layla was stellar tonight, but unfortunately, the judges were too biased to notice.
Rana didn’t win, obviously, and neither did Fadwa although she got a very good result but as I expected she didn’t do well enough. Suffice to say that the jury was blatantly biased. What a shame to waste the value of a show like this in the very final episode! It’s a massive anticlimax; I am angry!
I also have a bone to pick with the producers of this finale. What on earth was Saeed Murad doing there? A DJ and bellydancers? What? I mean, seriously. I let it slip when they had the girls dance to some crazy African beat, but this, in the FINAL episode no less, was stupid. The final episode should have been about classical bellydancing, leave the revolutionary evolutionary humbug to other episodes. Not the finale. Ugh.
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Here are two video clips showing the final bellydance duo faceoff:
Estelle vs. Rana:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPcR6aaJn3Y&rel=1]
Fadwa vs. Layla:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKfMa80N7y8&rel=1]

i had to choose between watching National Treasure or the belly dance finale..but sadly i went to the movie..<br /><br />i wanted fadwa to win..<br />Estele is a good dance in general..maybe layla is a little bit better..but do you thing that her nationality played a role in her winning the title?<br /><br /><br />