Assala Mostafa Hatem Nasri (Arabic: أصالة مصطفى حاتم نصري‎; born 15 May 1969), commonly known as Assala Nasri (Arabic: أصالة نصري‎) and by the mononym Assala (Arabic: أصالة‎), is a Syrian musical artist.

Assala was born in Damascus, Syria to a middle class couple. Mostafa Nasri, Assala’s father, was a revered composer and singer. Assala began her musical career by performing patriotic, religious, and children’s songs when she was four years old. She sang the theme song “Qessas Al Sho’oub” (قصص الشعوب), of the cartoon show, Hekayat Alamiyah (حكايات عالمية). In 1984, Mostafa Nasri died after suffering from internal bleeding caused by a car accident. Aged 15 she helped to take care of her siblings Aman, Ayham, Reem and Anas with her mother Aziza Al-Babelli.

Assala’s commercial musical career debuted in 1991 with the Egyptian song hit Law Ta’rafou (Egyptian Arabic: لو تعرفو). The album had 4 Egyptian songs in the oriental operatic Classic Egyptian tarab style. The album was an instant hit in Egypt back at that time with heartbreaking songs like “Ya Sabra Yana” and “Samehtak Ketir”. She quickly cemented her presence in the Arabic world a growing industry brimming with singers like Angham, Najwa Karam, Latifa, and Abdelmajeed Abdullah.