Studio El Fan

Studio El Fan (Arabic: ستوديو الفن, "The Art Studio") was one of the Arab world's first star-maker talent shows in Lebanon, created by the famous television director and producer Simon Asmar, and Alfred Barakat.^[1] The program helped launch the careers of many famous Lebanese stars^[2][3] like Majida El Roumi, Ragheb Alama, Walid Toufic, Wael Kfoury and Assi El Hellani.^[4] The program started in 1972^[1] on Télé Liban where it was broadcast during the 1970s and early 1980s, the LBC television proposed to welcome him during the early 1980s^[1] where it aired during the late 1980s, 1990s and early 2000s, and finally bought by the MTV in 2009. The show ran every four years for an entire year, and contestants from all over Lebanon competed in different singing categories for the gold, silver or bronze medal awards.

Studio El Fan
Created by	Simon Asmar
Country of origin	Lebanon
Production
Camera setup	Multiple-camera setup
Running time	100 minutes (with commercials)
Original release
Network	Télé Liban (1972–1981) Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (1988–2004) Murr Television (2009–present)
Release	1972 (1972) – present

Artists were not allowed to perform elsewhere than on LBCI, so they were called upon to perform in Nahr el-Founoun (meaning the arts rivers), an artistic complex in Nahr el-Kalb that was owned by Asmar.^[1]

Past contestants

The show hosted many of today's Lebanese and Arab stars, such as:

• Roy el Khoury
• Majida El Roumi
• Walid Toufic
• George Wassouf
• Ragheb Alama
• Diana Haddad
• Bassima
• Nawal El Zoghbi
• Elissa
• Wael Kfoury
• Hady Khalil
• Rami Ayach
• Bassem Feghali
• Jean-Marie Riachi
• Fares Karam
• Fadl Shaker
• Assi El Hellani
• Suzanne Tamim
• Haifa Wehbe
• Darine Chahine
• Maher Jah
• Marwan Khoury
• Maya Diab
• Maya Nasri
• Mona Maraachli
• walid Mourad
• Ziad Bourji