The composer, musician, actor, and playwright Ziad Rahbani. (Credit: AFP)
“El fann mish metel el warde… el fann biwajje3 bas bikhalik tfaker.”Art is not a flower, Ziad Rahbani once implied; it hurts, unsettles, and forces thought. Very few Lebanese artists have been able to communicate this tension as fully as Rahbani, and on Jan. 24, Tripoli will be the place where this unease, beauty, irony, and remembrance come together. The Tribute to Ziad & the Golden Days concert is less a nostalgic concert than a cultural reckoning — one that insists on hearing Ziad again, together, and in the North — held at the Rachid Karami International Fair inside the spacious indoor hall.The event, organized by The Curtain in partnership with AUB’s Zaki Nassif Program for Music, marks the second installment of a tribute that started at AUB’s Assembly Hall and is now making its way northward on purpose. More on the late...
“El fann mish metel el warde… el fann biwajje3 bas bikhalik tfaker.”Art is not a flower, Ziad Rahbani once implied; it hurts, unsettles, and forces thought. Very few Lebanese artists have been able to communicate this tension as fully as Rahbani, and on Jan. 24, Tripoli will be the place where this unease, beauty, irony, and remembrance come together. The Tribute to Ziad & the Golden Days concert is less a nostalgic concert than a cultural reckoning — one that insists on hearing Ziad again, together, and in the North — held at the Rachid Karami International Fair inside the spacious indoor hall.The event, organized by The Curtain in partnership with AUB’s Zaki Nassif Program for Music, marks the second installment of a tribute that started at AUB’s Assembly Hall and is now making its way northward on purpose. More on...
