Dounia Batma in Arab Idol: The dashed hopes of a nation

"Very disappointed with the results, I'm really rise against this injustice," throws sarah78001 in our comment section, Saturday, March 24. That night in Cairo, the dream of Batma Dounia, who had reached the final of the first edition of the Arab Idol show in Beirut, Lebanon, died. The national disappointment caused by this failure was up to the hopes raised by the arrival in the final of the young Moroccan. "The Moroccan youth need icons to dream and to plan very far her dreams, she is greatly missed gold, said Soumaya Guessous, sociologist, professor at the Faculty of Arts and Benmsick Faculty of Arts Mohammadia, youth lives in a slump, drowned in a speech negativistic. "
Fell in love with Dounia Batma, this youth "needs to see that the effort, passion, dreams, ambition can lead to success," says the sociologist. "Its success is based on her voice, her confidence and great charisma," attests Nabila Maan, another young Moroccan singer, author of the album "Ter El Ali," in 2009. Even taking the heart of the star system of the Arabic song, Dounia Batma emerged as an icon of meritocracy.
However, the young Moroccan singer failed, defeated by the Egyptian Carmen Souleymane. The sense of injustice has been great for all Moroccans who had followed her episode after episode. "You see gentlemen cheating the organizers of the Arab world who will remember: the small or large Egyptian Batma," said an anonymous, like hundreds of other Internet users, on this blog-that-was-said. Some question the jury's independence vis-à-vis the sponsor Pepsi, from which the winner gets a one-year advertising contract. Others accuse the judges of favoring certain nationalities.
If the reactions were as vivid and as many, it is precisely that Dounia, by its passage Arab Idol, represented Morocco. "Every time that Morocco is represented by someone or a group at the international level, there is a very strong patriotic fervor. Moroccans have many voted by SMS to win Dounia ", their compatriot, said Soumaya Guessous. "This is exactly the same phenomenon as with footballers, it ignites passion and national solidarity," she says.
As a Moroccan footballer for Real Madrid, Dounia is not literally the colors of his country, it is only in principle and as an individual, but mechanically, by its mere nationality and because it is already known to Moroccans including through the issuance of Studio 2M, it becomes the standard bearer all Moroccans. "She has not really lost, says Ahmed El Alaoui, president of the union of professional musicians, as she won the love of the Arab world and Moroccans. Today, hope she thinks of his country and gives importance to the Moroccan song in the Arab world. "
From a psychological standpoint, the psychiatrist Ghita El Khayat, who performs in Casablanca, explains that "Moroccans need to exist at any price, because taken one by one, they are anonymous, thus in all companies. "Like all stars, Dounia Batma creates" a fascinating phenomenon that exists between people unknown and known people who can live through another, "said she. Dunya is Moroccan and young, it is "therefore a figure - and there are few, says Ghita El Khayat, to which young Moroccans can identify."