Dalal Abu Amneh

Dalal Abu Amneh was born in 1983 in Nazareth

Dalal Abu Amneh was born on 9 August 1983 in Nazareth. She grew up in an Arab Muslim middle class family and has four sisters. She speaks both Hebrew and Arabic.

She earned a bachelor's degree in cognitive science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She then studied at the Technion, where her master's research dealt with the brain and its two hemispheres. She completed her doctoral dissertation in neuroscience in 2019.

She began performing as a child and competed at 16 in an Arab song contest held in Tunisia. She sings original songs and works by Umm Kulthum, and has appeared at festivals such as Jerash in Jordan and at the Cairo Opera House. She released albums including Karim Ya Ramadan in 2007 and On My Country in 2013, and is the lead singer of the MESTO orchestra.

In October 2023 she was arrested over a social media post published on 7 October and was later held under house arrest. She said the post expressed her faith. In February 2024 the police closed the case against her.

She married ophthalmologist Anan Abbasi in 2006, and they have two children. She is a Sufi Muslim and describes herself as a pacifist.