Yacoub Shaheen

Yacoub Shaheen (Arabic: يعقوب شاهين; born 27 February 1994) is a Syriac-Palestinian singer from the West Bank city of Bethlehem. In 2017, Shaheen won the TV program Arab Idol, a program with approximately 120 million viewers in the Arab World. He became the second Palestinian to win the contest after Mohammed Assaf who grew up in a Gaza Strip refugee camp and won the Arab Idol in 2013.