Voices rose in a soft hum, as if bees buzzing in a distant jar. The chorale conductor awakened the air with his baton and the composer, wearing a Batman T-shirt and blue suede shoes and looking ...

Documentary 'Fairouz' was recently screened at Magnolia in Cairo. Directed by Frédéric Mitterrand and released in 1998, the film pays homage to the legendary Lebanese singer using rare archival ...

Fans of Fairouz, the Arab world's most famous singer, are up in arms about a bitter legal row that has stopped her performing live. From Beirut to the Gulf – and as far away as Australia – the diva's ...

Feud sees heirs demanding that their permission be sought before singer performs songs by the Rahbani Brothers Beirut: Across four decades, Fairouz's songs of freedom, justice and love transfixed Arab ...

The enigma of Fairouz continues to define a generation of ardent fans as the Arab diva turned 84. She was often called ‘Our Ambassador to the Stars’, with her melodious voice often serving as a ...

ALBAWABA - Lebanese composer Ziad Rahbani died at the age of 69, while the cause of the death has not been cleared yet, Local media confirmed on Saturday. The Lebanese and Arab artistic community was ...

A young Arab-American composer is putting some thick cracks in a Western-establishment perspective that has for decades divided traditional music into “Classical” (Western) and “World” (non-Western) ...

ALBAWABA - Ahead of the funeral procession for Lebanese music legend Ziad Rahbani, his mother Fairouz and sister Rima Rahbani were seen mourning his death inside the Church of Our Lady of the ...

The Lebanese singer Fairouz is the focus of protests around the world since a court in Beirut banned her from performing one of her signature songs last month due to a dispute over royalties. She was ...