Styled Archives: MENA Celebrities Who Owned the Halter Top Look
From Cairo sets to Beirut stages, the 2000s were the halter top’s era—capturing Arab cinema, music, and red-carpet glamour in one neck-tied silhouette.
From Cairo’s film sets to Dubai’s music award stages, the halter neckline carved out a visible place in the 2000s Arab pop-cultural landscape.
It surfaced in moments that still circulate - Mona Zaki in powder blue at the height of her engagement buzz, Nancy Ajram sweeping into the Arabian Music Awards in white with a flower at the collar, Haifa Wehbe on the Muscat Festival stage in low-rise jeans and stacked gold bangles.
The cut proved adaptable: sequins and fire prints for Dolly Shahine, argyle matched with a wrap scarf for Ruby, minimal black softened with layered chains for Yousra. It shifted easily between the glamour of a Beirut award night and the casual intimacy of an on-set snapshot, carrying with it a kind of visual shorthand - when the halter appeared, the camera stayed a little longer.
Mona Zaki | Cairo (2001)
Nancy Ajram | Dubai (2004)
Haifa Wehbe | Muscat (2006)
Dolly Shahine | Cairo (2006)
Ruby | Al-Mansuriya (2006)
Yousra | New York City (2007)
Nicole Saba | Beirut (2007)
Basma | Abu Dhabi (2008)
Lebleba | Beirut (2009)
Nelly Karim | Dubai (2010)
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