Shakira's New Year's Eve

Well, it's too late to a get a visa and probably a flight. Unless you've got some serious connections.

But Shakira is doing a New Year's Eve show this year at the Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates).


According to this article, Shakira's Arab fixation by Kelly Crane Gulf News 12/23/08, she's going to do some singing in Arabic.

It won't be like her usual stage show though. She has to perform in a burka. (NOT!!)

There's some Arabic in her song, "Ojos Así", which is one of her standards. Here's a video of her performing it in Turkey in 2002. Without a burka:



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