Lebanon is officially renaming Hafez el Assad Avenue in Beirut to Ziad Rahbani Avenue instead! Hafez el-Assad was Syria’s ...

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 ...

Ziad Rahbani, the Lebanese composer and playwright, has died at 69, according to the National News Agency. Rahbani, the son ...

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

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 ...

Legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz attended the funeral of her son, renowned composer and playwright, Ziad Rahbani, at a church ...