Blog: Nothing Else Matter

Samira Said - Bitakat Hob (Message of Love) Despite the competition's name, non-European countries are allowed to participate in the Eurovision. The only requirement for participation is that the country be a member of the European Broadcasting Union (no relation to the European Union). Several non-European countries are "full active" EBU members, including Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Israel, Lebanon, Lybia, Morocco, and Tunisia. Only two of these countries have participated in previous Eurovisions: Israel, which first entered the competition in 1973 and has since won the competition three times (also finished in a close [...]