The Lebanese singer’s patriotic song has returned repeatedly since 1976 to inspire hope amid catastrophe. But as it resurges during the US-Israeli war, some Lebanese are chafing against its optimism a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. They were feminist pioneers, immortalized by their music. The magic of singers like Fairuz and Umm Kulthum still makes the Arab ...

Middle Eastern flavors have been floating around Montpelier since last fall, when Capital City Concerts founder Karen Kevra opened her chamber-music series with a Middle Eastern dinner for nearly 100 ...

Fairuz, legendary singer of Lebanon and one of the most cherished artists in the Arab world, marked her 90th birthday on Thursday, amidst Israel's assault on the country. Renowned for her songs about ...

BEIRUT – BEIRUT (AP) — Across four decades, Fairouz's songs of freedom, justice and love transfixed Arab audiences, moved millions to tears and gave hope to the Lebanese during the darkest days of ...

You don't have to be Lebanese to know the voice of Nihad Haddad, better known as Fairuz -- Arabic for "turquoise." The man who discovered her described her voice as a rare gem, capable of working in ...

Recorded more than 50 years ago by the Arab Christian soprano Fairuz, ‘Good Friday Eastern Sacred Songs’ is one of the greatest yet least-known, certainly in the West, popular religious recordings of ...

Ziad Rahbani, one of Lebanon’s most influential cultural figures and the son of Arab music legend Fairuz, has died at the age of 69. A playwright, composer, and political commentator, Rahbani shaped ...