Dominique Hourani

Who is Dominique Hourani?

Dominique Hourani is a Lebanese recording artist, actress, former top model, and beauty queen.

Hourani is the daughter of Lebanese writer, archeologist and historian Youssef Hourany. She holds an MBA degree from the Lebanese American University in addition to two other degrees in psychology and accounting.

In 2003 she won the title of Miss Intercontinental 2003 and later became the Arab world's first top model, posing for international brands in Milan and Paris and Turkey.

Hourani starred in the hit series, Oyoun Kha'ena on LBCI. After that she filmed her first video for the song "Farfoura". "Farfoura" also gave Hourani her nickname, which means butterfly in the Lebanese dialect.

Her debut album Atriss climbed to number one in most charts and stayed there for weeks, and with her hit song "Khachouka" and her second album in 2008 Kermalik Ya Dominique was ranked at the top of sales in Arab world.

In 2010 Hourani and Ali El Deek had their first duet song "El Natoor", another hit song that stayed for more than six months at the top of the charts in various countries. She also starred in her first movie El Beeh Romancy.

Hourani has been recently featured in The Greatest, the Most Important and the Most Powerful Women of the Middle East and the Arab World book published by Times Square Press, New York. Written by the international best-selling author Maximillien de Lafayette. The author described Hourani as one of the most stunning, accomplished and intelligent ladies of the Middle East and the Arab world. With her pragmatic wisdom and down-to-earth lifestyle in addition to her striking beauty and legendary elegance.