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Title: Transvestite takes on Arab TV
Post by: LostInTime on September 30, 2007, 10:17:40 AM
Variety (http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117973038.html?categoryId=14&cs=1)
Bassem Feghali given gameshow
By HABIB BATTAH

The Arab world's most famous cross-dresser has a show of his own this Ramadan season. Airing every night during the Muslim holy month, the program is a comical, music-infused spin on the age-old "One Thousand and One Nights."

Complete with outrageous outfits, plenty of hip shaking and even a few whip cracks, it is probably the closest thing to "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" that Arab audiences have ever seen.