Ziad al-Rahbani and the Liberal Subject

Abstract

In an interview with historian Ahmad Beydoun, published in the newspaper al-Wasat in 1996, the Lebanese singer Ziad al-Rahbani tells the story of how, as a teenager, he longed intensely to be with the “real people.” He was ready to literally jump out of the window and roam the streets in order to connect with “real life” and learn from it. As the son of the iconic Lebanese singer Fairuz and her songwriter husband ’Asi al-Rahbani, Ziad grew up in a musical and artistic environment, but also in what felt to him like a secluded upper-middle-class cocoon in a wealthy suburb north of Beirut, where he attended an elite French-language school. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.

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