Mai Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan Selim ( ar, مي عبد الجبار حمدان سليم, born November 6, 1983 in Abu Dhabi),(30 August 2008)
في لقاء خاص مع الجمال .. مي سليم " بلدي هي مصر ولو لم أكن مطربة لكنت مصممة أزياء ناجحة
''Algamal.net'' (in Arabic), Retrieved December 16, 2010 commonly known as Mai Selim ( ar, مي سليم), is a

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ian singer and actress. Her sisters are

Mais Hamdan Mais Abdel-Jabbar Hamdan Selim ( ar, ميس عبد الجبار حمدان سليم, born October 31, 1982), better known as Mais Hamdan ( ar, ميس حمدان), is a Jordanian actress, singer and TV presenter. Her sisters are Mai Selim and Dana ...

and Dana Hamdan.دويتو يجمع مي سليم بميس حمدان
''moheet.com'', Retrieved December 16, 2010 (about doing a duet with her sister and stamping our rumors of rivalry between them)

Biography

Musical debut

Mai sings in the

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, though she was born to a Palestinian Jordanian father and a Palestinian mother. She has been living in

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ever since she was young and has stated she almost lived her whole life there. She gained a degree in Business Studies from

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. Mai states that luck has played a big part in her being of where she is right now: :"I won't lie and give you the clichéd line of 'I've been working towards this all my life since I was a child' and all that stuff. I knew I had a very strong artistic side to me, and I had a strong passion towards music, but I never thought I'd make a career out of it one day." In 2008, she released the album ''Ehlawet El Ayam'' ( ar, احلوت الأيام).(13 August 2008)
مي سليم: احلوت الأيام
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'' (in Arabic), Retrieved December 16, 2010 Mai Selim, Boutiqaat - May 20, 2019

Personal life

She married Egyptian businessman Ali al-Refai from November 2010 to 2012, with whom she had her daughter, Lili.

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Selim, Mai 1983 births Living people Jordanian film actresses Jordanian stage actresses Jordanian television actresses Jordanian women singers 21st-century women singers Singers who perform in Egyptian Arabic Jordanian people of Lebanese descent Jordanian people of Palestinian descent