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Balqees Fathi Is The First Arab Woman To Have Her Wax Sculpture At Madame Tussauds
It was announced earlier this summer that Madame Tussauds is coming to the Arab world.
Dubai is going to be the home of the region’s first Madame Tussauds and it is going to also have wax figures of a lot of regional figures
The much loved Emirati-Yemeni music star, Balqees Fathi, is one of these figures and her wax figure has just been revealed – and it is incredible!
اليوم انا في قمة الفخر والسعادة كوني اول شخصية عربية تتجسد بصورة تمثال شمعي في متحف مدام توسو العالمي في #دبي العالمية وكل الشكر لقادة بلادي #الامارات الداعمين للفن والابداع والقائمين فالمتحف للمجهود المبذول في إتقان هذه التحفة الفنية مبروك لجمهوري اللي داعمني والقادم أجمل#بلقيس pic.twitter.com/vxqiEoQJa3
— #شذكرك_بيا Balqees (@BalqeesFathi) August 17, 2021
According to reports, a team of expert Madame Tussauds’ sculptors travelled to Dubai to document 500 of her precise measurements. The team also spent three months crafting the figure by hand and even inserting real hair, one strand at a time.
The museum in Dubai will have the figured of over 60 stars including 15 from the Middle East.
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