On 25 July 2025, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, finally released, returned to his native Lebanon where he was welcomed as a hero. The next morning, Ziad Rahbani, musician, theatre and radio personality, ...

From a pioneering Emirati actress who helped lay the foundations of national television and theatre, to a Lebanese composer ...

Michael Levitt is a news assistant for All Things Considered who is based in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science. Before coming to NPR, Levitt worked in the solar ...

July 2025 has been a month of many losses for music fans. Many of the world's most famous singers, musicians, and composers ...

From humanitarian airdrops in Gaza and the US-EU trade agreement, to the massive earthquake in Russia, the fires in Iraq and ...

It is unclear how the lightening rod of Palestinian statehood will end the daily massacres in Gaza or reverse the ongoing ...

Raised in a storied family — his mother, Fayrouz, is one of the Arab world’s most beloved singers — he wrote works reflecting ...

He was to the manner born. His mother Fairouz is Lebanon’s most iconic singer, a diva whose haunting voice continues to ...

The New Arab remembers and honours Ziad Rahbani, the legendary Lebanese composer, satirist, and pioneer of ’Oriental jazz’, ...

Hundreds of people in Lebanon have paid tribute to iconic composer, pianist and playwright Ziad Rahbani, who died over the ...

Ziad Rahbani, a visionary Lebanese composer, playwright, pianist and political provocateur, died on Saturday, at the age of 69, according to the state-run National News Agency. The ...

Two musicians with huge followings in their respective countries and diasporas have just died. Cohosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman remember Daddy Lumba from Ghana and Lebanon’s Ziad Rahbani, their ...