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Ziad Rahbani

Lebanese composer, pianist, and playwright

Musical artist

Ziad Rahbani^[a] (Arabic: زياد الرحباني, born 1956) is a Lebanesecomposer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator. He is the son of Fairouz, one of Lebanon and the Arab world's most famous singers, and Assi Rahbani, one of the founders of modern Arabic music.^[1] Many of his musicals satirize Lebanese politics both during and after the Lebanese Civil War, and are often critical of the traditional political establishment.

Personal life

Ziad Rahbani is the son of the Lebanese composer Assi Rahbani and Nouhad Haddad, the Lebanese female singer known as Fairuz.^[2]^[3]

Rahbani was married to Dalal Karam, with whom he has a boy named "Assi" but he was later found out not to be his biological son. Their relationship later ended in divorce, prompting Karam to write a series of articles for the gossip magazine Ashabaka about their marriage. Rahbani composed a number of songs about their relationship, including "Marba el Dalal"^[4] and "Bisaraha".

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Ziad Rahbani: The lost artist

There is no shame in having nothing more to say. We have become accustomed to intellectuals, politicians and activists knowing everything. Very rarely do we come across a person courageous enough to say: “I don’t know.” Few people are prepared to concede the limitations of their knowledge, especially in Lebanon where everyone knows everything. Take Ziad Rahbani the artist, intellectual, and now, apparently, writer.

Even if we come across someone who knows their specific field, with time this knowledge loses value. Let us suppose Ziad Rahbani had managed to grasp the Lebanese era pioneered by his parents. His mother is Fairuz the “Voice of Lebanon”. His father is Assi Rahbani the mastermind behind Rahbani productions, who created the Lebanese “story” or the “Lebanese Dream” using music, theatre and less frequently cinema. Perhaps it would not be such a stretch of the imagination to suggest growing up surrounded by such talent, and not his political conscience was the

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The Cult of Ziad Rahbani

For people between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five, Ziad Rahbani is the biggest celebrity there is. Some non-Lebanese may not be aware of the extent and reach of the Ziad Rahbani cult. You will find young people in Lebanon who can recite entire dialogues and songs by him. These are people who for every occasion and every episode in life can invoke an aphorism by Ziad. To be sure, Ziad was also (and remains) big for people of my generation. After all, he introduced a genre of satirical comedy that Lebanon did not know before (together with his comrade Jean Chamoun, who later became a well-known documentary filmmaker with his wife Mai Masri).

During the early years of the civil war, Chamoun and Rahbani would introduce daily brief exchanges on the radio about the current situation in Lebanon. These were smart and hilarious commentaries about political developments at the time. We used to eagerly await these daily sketches with no electricity and the sounds of bombs all around us.

Rahbani was a child prodigy. He composed music at an early age (his firs