Mishary Rashid Alafasy - مشاري بن راشد العفاسي

Mishary Rashid Alafasy,whose full name is Mishary ben Rashid Al-Afasy (or Mishary Rashid Ghareeb Mohammed Rashed Al-Afasy). Also nicknamed Abou Nora represents a popular and famous imam from Kuwait. He is known internationally as well as in his own country. Abou Nora was born on September 5th, 1976 in Kuwait, to what corresponds to the 11th of Ramadan in the yeat 1396 of Al Hegira.

Thanks to his magnificent and professional talent, besides his soft emotional voice, this quran reciter has managed to fascinate great men of the Islamic world such as sheik Ibrahim Ali Shahata Al-Samanodei, the sheik Abdurarea Radwan, and also the famous quranic reciter the great sheik Ahmed Abdulaziz Al-Zaiat.

Since an early age, he knew how to learn and memorize Allah's book, the holy Quran, without any problems or difficulties in few years only. His family and relations were very surprised. In his adolescence, Mishary ben Rashid Al-Afasy studied at the college of "Holly Quran", and then he decided to pursue his studies at the Islamic and quranic university of Medina in Saudi Arabia, faraway from his house, family and friends.

Nowadays, Mishary Rashid Alafasy is a famous imam of the gigantic mosque of Masjid Al-Kabir in Kuwait, his country of birth. Thanks to his incredible talent, he possesses all reserved rights on two famous chains of the following recitation of the Quran: TV Alafasy and Alafasy Q. Hundreds, even thousands of spectators are particularly interested in his television programs, including the numerous things that he offers to his Muslim brothers and sisters via all the Arabic peninsula, from the far east “Maghreb” to Saudi Arabia.

He also offers a wide range of much diversified Islamic songs, hence he has managed to produce a whole album gathering all his famous songs such Dikrayat, Macaw Addonia, Kon ma3a Allah, Anta Rahmani, Tala3a Al Badr and more… In the same way, numerous TV channels and radio stations have taken the pleasure of broadcasting all his incomparable productions. Many websites, just like ours, offer their services to the various Internet users, by uploading his songs on line, and displaying other productions concerning the field of the Islamic religion.

In his private life, success dominates. Mishary Rashid Alafasy managed to form a beautiful family; two girls and a wife.