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Ghofran announced that she would be experimenting different and new music genres in an album that she had prepared for release in 2008. However, after her daughter, Hiba al-Akkad, and her friend, were brutally murdered later that year, she put off the album and released it in June, 2009, with a song
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singer Fouad Masoud, with whom she had a daughter named Nagham. She later married businessmen Ismail
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Police said that the murderer was a blacksmith, who entered Gamal's apartment with the intention of stealing money. In 2010, Mahmoud Al Issawi was sentenced to death, and the capital punishments took place at the Wadi al-Natrun prison in 2014.
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Ali Essam Al-Din, arrived at the scene of the crime after his dying fiance called him. He then reported the crime to the police and rushed his fiance to the hospital, where she later died.
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due to her family's rejection of her interest in pursuing a career in music, and started singing for Arab communities in hotels and restaurants. She released her first song in
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