Nesma Mahgoub, (born September 26, 1989) is the winner of the Star Academy Arab World, the 8th season. She is the second Egyptian to win in the show, after Mohamed Atieh, the second female contestant to win, after Shada Hassoun, and the second candidate to win in the Arab show by singing mostly the western genre, after Nader Guirat.

During the show

Nesma was never a nominee. In the reality-TV part of the season, the production maintained for her a low profile. Not only that her acting ability is modest and she could not take part in the scenes that come along in this type of show, but, also, the production took care to make her character come across as positive.

Life before Star Academy

Before the Star Academy Nesma was studying Journalism

Journalism

Journalism is the practice of investigation and reporting of events, issues and trends to a broad audience in a timely fashion. Though there are many variations of journalism, the ideal is to inform the intended audience. Along with covering organizations and institutions such as government and...

, Mass Communication

Mass communication

Mass communication is the term used to describe the academic study of the various means by which individuals and entities relay information through mass media to large segments of the population at the same time...

, Theater, and Music

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound and silence. Its common elements are pitch , rhythm , dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture...

 at the American University in Cairo

American University in Cairo

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. Her mother taught her music and reading notes. She has her own band.

External links

• Nesma's page on Star Academy 8's website
• Star Academy 8's official website
• Report about Nesma winning Star Academy 8
• Star Academy Arab World's article on Wikipedia, sends you directly to Star Academy 8