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- ↑ Biography (in French) on the Concert.fr website.
- ↑ Mentioned under the Cairo Opera Company bio.
- ↑ "Egypt's Soprano Amira Selim dazzles the world with exceptional performance in Pharaohs' Golden Parade". Egypt Today. Retrieved 5 April 2021.
- ↑ DVD listing with credits Archived 2018-04-24 at the Wayback Machine .
- ↑ http://www.worldcat.org/title/mozart-in-egypt-2-from-an-idea-by-hughes-de-courson-and-ahmed-al-maghraby/oclc/474764693 WorldCat Entry
