Shakhbat Shakhabit facts for kids

Quick facts for kids Shakhbat Shakhabit شخبط شخابيط
Studio album by Nancy Ajram
Released	June 11, 2007 (2007-06-11)
Recorded	2007
Studio	ART (Cairo) Sout El Hob (Cairo) Wassim Bustani (Beirut)
Genre	Arabic Pop World
Length	30:25
Label	EWE Productions
Producer	Jiji Lamara (exec.) Nancy Ajram (exec.) Ashraf Abdou Walid Maymani Wassim Bustani Oussama Al Hindi
Nancy Ajram chronology
Ya Tabtab...Wa Dallaa (2006) Shakhbat Shakhabit شخبط شخابيط (2007) Betfakkar Fi Eih (2008)
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Shakhbat Shakhabit (Arabic: شخبط شخابيط, English: Scribbled Doodles) is the first children's album by Lebanese singer Nancy Ajram. It was released on June 11, 2007 by EWE Productions. Ajram has always wanted to dedicate a work for children, and indeed, the album and video came as an important step in her career. The music video was directed by Said El Marouk after "Ehsas Jdeed"'s success with Ajram, was the biggest budget out of all of her clips. It included four songs, "Shakhbat Shakhabit", "Katkouta", "Shater", and "Eid Milad" in the credits. The production of the album created a buzz in the Arab music industry, as several producing companies fell into exclusive-rights arguments with each other for its production.

Success

The album and video were the most notable and successful work for children at the time, following a huge wave of works directed to children. The reason for this could be the fact that it was purely meant for children, unlike children works by other singers that included romantic content for adults. The video was also the only music video broadcast on MBC's children's channel, MBC 3. On the third anniversary of the channel, Nancy hosted the live children's event as she performed "Shakhbat", "Shater", and "Eid Milad". It's worth mentioning that Shakhbat Shakhabit beat Nancy's expectations, because it achieved huge success even among adults. "Shakhbat" and "Shater" achieved the most success in the album. However, all of the songs were played in schools and reached children all over the Arab world.

World peace

Shakhabit also includes a song about World Peace, called "Risala Lil Aalam" (A Message to the World). It was filmed in complete secrecy with Fadi Haddad, in a first cooperation with Ajram, using techniques newly introduced to the Arab world. The video, which portrays peace issues of the Arab world and its children, is expected to be aired on all satellite channels, including news channel Al Arabiya. The video was released on May 25, 2008, the day the Lebanese president General Michel Suleiman was elected ending a deadlock that lasted since November. It was the first video for Ajram that had an entirely graphical world that implied the suffering of children worldwide and the need to bring out a more colorful and happy world for them, like the one in the video. Old rumors claimed that the video will be presented to the UNICEF.

Track listing

Credits

Tracks 1,6,8 - Lyrics: Awad Badawi, Music: Walid Saad, Production: Ashraf Abdou

Tracks 2,3,4 - Lyrics: Awad Badawi, Music: Walid Saad, Production: Walid Maymani

Track 5 - Lyrics: Mounir Bou Assaf, Music and Production: Wassim Bustani

Track 7 - Lyrics: Saad Al Musallam, Music: Yaacoub Al Khubayzi, Production: Oussama Al Hindi

Personnel

Adapted from the album liner notes.

• Dr. Jihan El Nasser – children's choral conducting
• Mostafa Aslan – guitar
• Ahmed Ayadi – tabla
• Mahmoud Souror – rebab; violin
• Hisham El Arabi – riq
• Hani Farhat – violin
• Tamer Ghonim – violin; strings (track 8)
• Tamer Talaat – strings (track 4)
• Mahmoud (child) – featured vocals (track 2)
• Habiba Hazem Tayel (child) – featured vocals (track 3)
• Yasser Anwar – sound engineer (tracks 1,2,3,4,6,7,8)
• Joseph Karam – sound engineer (track 5)
• Tony Haddad – digital mastering
• Fares El Jammal – photography
• Georges Yucef – graphic design