Fairuz, the Glossary
Nouhad Wadie Haddad (Nuhād Wadīʿ Ḥaddād,; born November 21, 1934), known as Fairuz (Fayrūz), is a Lebanese singer.[1]
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- 20th-century Lebanese women singers
- Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy from Oriental Orthodoxy
- Lebanese Oriental Orthodox Christians
- Lebanese people of Turkish descent
- Performers of Christian music in Arabic
- Recipients of the National Order of the Cedar
- Recipients of the Order of Merit (Lebanon)
- Singers from Beirut
- Syriac Orthodox Christians
Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi (أَبُو ظَبِي) is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Accor Arena
Accor Arena (originally known as the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy), also known as Paris-Bercy, is an indoor sports arena and concert hall located in the neighbourhood of Bercy, on the Boulevard de Bercy, in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, France.
Akram Chehayeb
Akram Hussein Chehayeb (أكرمشهيب; born 17 October 1947) is a Lebanese Druze politician who is a member of the Progressive Socialist Party headed by Walid Jumblatt.
Al-Ahram
Al-Ahram (الأهرام), founded on 5 August 1876, is the most widely circulating Egyptian daily newspaper, and the second oldest after Al-Waqa'i' al-Misriyya (The Egyptian Events, founded 1828).
Al-Ittihad (Emirati newspaper)
Al-Ittihad (lit) is an Arabic language newspaper published daily in the United Arab Emirates.
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Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track or cassette), or digital.
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Algeria
Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.
Algiers
Algiers (al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of the country.
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.
Amman
Amman (ʿAmmān) is the capital and the largest city of Jordan, and the country's economic, political, and cultural center.
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An-Nahar
An-Nahar (lit) is a leading Arabic-language daily newspaper published in Lebanon.
Arab Americans
Arab Americans (translit or) are Americans of Arab ancestry.
Arab world
The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.
Arabic
Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.
Arabic music
Arabic music (al-mūsīqā al-ʿarabīyyah) is the music of the Arab world with all its diverse music styles and genres.
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America.
Assi Rahbani
Assi Rahbani (عاصي الرحباني; May 4, 1923 – June 21, 1986) was a Lebanese composer, musician, and producer. Fairuz and Assi Rahbani are Greek Orthodox Christians from Lebanon.
Assyrian people
Assyrians are an indigenous ethnic group native to Mesopotamia, a geographical region in West Asia.
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Athens
Athens is the capital and largest city of Greece.
Baalbeck International Festival
The Baalbeck International Festival (مهرجانات بعلبك الدولية, Festival International de Baalbeck) is a cultural event in Lebanon.
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Baalbek
Baalbek (Baʿlabakk; Syriac-Aramaic: ܒܥܠܒܟ) is a city located east of the Litani River in Lebanon's Beqaa Valley, about northeast of Beirut.
Bahrain
Bahrain (Two Seas, locally), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, is an island country in West Asia.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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Beirut
Beirut (help) is the capital and largest city of Lebanon.
Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center
The Beirut International Exhibition & Leisure Center (commonly BIEL) is a large multi-purpose facility, hosting exhibitions (Beirut Book Fair), conferences, concerts and private events.
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Boustani
Boustani is a Levantine surname.
Brazil
Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest and easternmost country in South America and Latin America.
Cairo
Cairo (al-Qāhirah) is the capital of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, and is the country's largest city, being home to more than 10 million people.
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Camille Chamoun
Camille Nimr Chamoun OM, ONC (كميل نمر شمعون, Kamīl Sham'ūn; 3 April 1900 – 7 August 1987) was a Lebanese politician who served as President of Lebanon from 1952 to 1958.
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Carnegie Hall
Carnegie Hall is a concert venue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.
Casino du Liban
Casino du Liban (كازينو لبنان) is a casino located in Maameltein, in Lebanon and is 22 km north of Beirut.
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Cedrus libani
Cedrus libani, the cedar of Lebanon or Lebanese cedar, is a species of tree in the genus Cedrus, a part of the pine family, native to the mountains of the Eastern Mediterranean basin.
Choir
A choir (also known as a chorale or chorus) is a musical ensemble of singers.
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Cobblestone
Cobblestone is a natural building material based on cobble-sized stones, and is used for pavement roads, streets, and buildings.
Conservatoire Libanais
Le Conservatoire libanais national supérieur de musique or The Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music was founded in the 1930s by Wadia Sabra, composer of the national anthem of Lebanon.
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Damascus
Damascus (Dimašq) is the capital and largest city of Syria, the oldest current capital in the world and, according to some, the fourth holiest city in Islam.
Damascus Declaration
The Damascus Declaration (إعلان دمشق) was a statement of unity by Syrian opposition figures issued in October 2005.
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Damascus Opera House
The Damascus Opera House (officially Dar al-Assad for Culture and Arts) (دَارُ الْأَسَدِ لِلثَّقَافَةِ وَالْفُنُونِ) is the national opera house of Syria.
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Druze
The Druze (دَرْزِيّ, or دُرْزِيّ, rtl), who call themselves al-Muwaḥḥidūn (lit. 'the monotheists' or 'the unitarians'), are an Arab and Arabic-speaking esoteric ethnoreligious group from West Asia who adhere to the Druze faith, an Abrahamic, monotheistic, syncretic, and ethnic religion whose main tenets assert the unity of God, reincarnation, and the eternity of the soul.
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Dubai
Dubai (translit) is the most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the capital of the Emirate of Dubai, the most populated of the country's seven emirates.
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Eastern Orthodoxy
Eastern Orthodoxy, otherwise known as Eastern Orthodox Christianity or Byzantine Christianity, is one of the three main branches of Chalcedonian Christianity, alongside Catholicism and Protestantism.
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Egypt
Egypt (مصر), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and the Sinai Peninsula in the southwest corner of Asia.
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Eh Fi Amal
Eh Fi Amal (إيه في أمل meaning "Yes There Is Hope") is the ninety-ninth album by the Lebanese recording artist Fairuz, released October 6, 2010 in Lebanon and the following day in the rest of the world.
Elham Shahin
Elham Shahin (إلهامشاهين, also spelled Ilham Shaheen, Ilham Shahin, Ilham Chahine, and Elham Shaheen) is an Egyptian actress.
EMI
EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London.
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Emmanuel Macron
Emmanuel Jean-Michel Frédéric Macron (born 21 December 1977) is a French politician who has been serving as the 25th president of France since 2017 and ex officio one of the two Co-Princes of Andorra.
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Euronews
Euronews (stylised in lowercase) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France.
Fairuz discography
The discography of Lebanese singer Fairuz includes a large repertoire of more than 1,500 songs, out of which nearly 800 were released.
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Folkways Records
Folkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music.
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François Mitterrand
François Maurice Adrien Marie Mitterrand (26 October 19168 January 1996) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1981 to 1995, the longest holder of that position in the history of France.
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Frédéric Mitterrand
Frédéric Mitterrand (21 August 1947 – 21 March 2024) was a French politician who served as Minister of Culture and Communication of France from 2009 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.
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Greater Lebanon
The State of Greater Lebanon (Dawlat Lubnān al-Kubra; État du Grand Liban), informally known as French Lebanon, was a state declared on 1 September 1920, which became the Lebanese Republic (الجمهورية اللبنانية; République libanaise) in May 1926, and is the predecessor of modern Lebanon.
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Halim el-Roumi
Halim el-Roumi (Arabic: حليمالرومي) (July 1919 – 1983) was a Lebanese singer and composer.
Hassan Nasrallah
Hassan Nasrallah (حسن نصر الله; born 31 August 1960) is a Lebanese cleric and the secretary-general of Hezbollah, a Shia Islamist political party and militant group.
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Hezbollah
Hezbollah (Ḥizbu 'llāh) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group, led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.
Holy city
A holy city is a city important to the history or faith of a specific religion.
Houari Boumédiène
Houari Boumédiène (translit; born Mohammed ben Brahim Boukherouba; 23 August 1932 – 27 December 1978) was an Algerian military officer and politician who served as Chairman of the Revolutionary Council of Algeria from 19 June 1965 until 12 December 1976 and thereafter as the second president of Algeria until his death in 1978.
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Hussein of Jordan
Hussein bin Talal (translit; 14 November 1935 – 7 February 1999) was King of Jordan from 11 August 1952 until his death in 1999.
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Ian Black (journalist)
Ian Black (15 July 1953 – 22 January 2023) was a British journalist and author focusing on international political issues.
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Iraq
Iraq, officially the Republic of Iraq, is a country in West Asia and a core country in the geopolitical region known as the Middle East.
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Jack Lang (French politician)
Jack Mathieu Émile Lang (born 2 September 1939) is a French politician.
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Jacques Chirac
Jacques René Chirac (29 November 193226 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007.
Jordan
Jordan, officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia.
Joseph Harb
Joseph Harb (1940 – 9 February 2014) was a Lebanese poet and writer.
Kahlil Gibran
Gibran Khalil Gibran (جُبْرَان خَلِيل جُبْرَان,,, or,; January 6, 1883 – April 10, 1931), usually referred to in English as Kahlil Gibran (pronounced), was a Lebanese-American writer, poet and visual artist; he was also considered a philosopher, although he himself rejected the title.
Kuwait
Kuwait, officially the State of Kuwait, is a country in West Asia.
Lebanese Civil War
The Lebanese Civil War (الحرب الأهلية اللبنانية) was a multifaceted armed conflict that took place from 1975 to 1990.
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Lebanese Maronite Christians
Lebanese Maronite Christians (المسيحية المارونية في لبنان; ܡܫܝܚܝ̈ܐ ܡܪ̈ܘܢܝܐ ܕܠܒܢܢ) refers to Lebanese people who are members of the Maronite Church in Lebanon, the largest Christian denomination in the country.
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Lebanese pound
The lira or pound is the currency of Lebanon.
Legion of Honour
The National Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour (Ordre royal de la Légion d'honneur), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil, and currently comprises five classes.
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Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
Lydia Canaan
Lydia Canaan is a Lebanese singer-songwriter, poet, humanitarian activist, and diplomat. Fairuz and Lydia Canaan are 20th-century Lebanese women singers, 21st-century Lebanese women singers and Greek Orthodox Christians from Lebanon.
Madonna
Madonna Louise Ciccone (born August 16, 1958) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Mansour Rahbani
Mansour Rahbani (Manṣūr Al-Raḥbāni; 17 March 1925 – 13 January 2009) was a Lebanese composer, musician, poet, philosopher, thinker and producer, known as one of the Rahbani brothers, and the brother-in-law of the singer Fairuz. Fairuz and Mansour Rahbani are Greek Orthodox Christians from Lebanon.
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March 14 Alliance
The March 14 Alliance (taḥāluf 14 ādhār), named after the date of the Cedar Revolution, was a coalition of political parties and independents in Lebanon formed in 2005 that were united by their anti-Syrian stance and by their opposition to the March 8 Alliance.
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Mardin
Mardin (Mêrdîn; ماردين; Merdīn; Մարդին) is a city and seat of the Artuklu District of Mardin Province in Turkey.
Martyrs' Square, Beirut
Martyrs' Square, historically known as "Al Burj" or "Place des Cannons", is the historical central public square of Beirut, Lebanon.
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Meningitis
Meningitis is acute or chronic inflammation of the protective membranes covering the brain and spinal cord, collectively called the meninges.
MGM Grand Garden Arena
The MGM Grand Garden Arena is a 17,000-seat multi-purpose arena within the MGM Grand resort, located on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.
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Mohammed Flayfel
Mohammed Flayfel (1899–1986) was a Lebanese composer and musician.
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Montreal
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.
Morocco
Morocco, officially the Kingdom of Morocco, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa.
Mount Lebanon
Mount Lebanon (جَبَل لُبْنَان, jabal lubnān,; ܛܘܪ ܠܒ݂ܢܢ,,, ṭūr lewnōn) is a mountain range in Lebanon.
Music of Lebanon
The music of Lebanon has a long history.
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Music school
A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training, and research of music.
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
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Nasri Shamseddine
Nasri Shamseddine (نصري شمس الدين, also spelled Nasri Chamseddine; 27 June 1927 – 18 March 1983) was a Lebanese singer and actor.
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National Museum of Beirut
The National Museum of Beirut (متحف بيروت الوطنيّ, Matḥaf Bayrūt al-waṭanī) is the principal museum of archaeology in Lebanon.
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New York City
New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.
NOW News
NOW News (sometimes abbreviated NOW, formerly NOW Lebanon) is a Beirut-based Lebanese news website focused on the Middle East founded in late 2012 and published in both English and Arabic by M Publishing SAL.
Odeon of Herodes Atticus
The Odeon of Herodes Atticus (Greek: Ωδείο ΗρώδουτουΑττικού; also called Herodeion or Herodion; Greek: Ηρώδειο) is a stone Roman theatre structure located on the southwest slope of the Acropolis of Athens, Greece.
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Olympia (Paris)
The Olympia (commonly known as L'Olympia or in the English-speaking world as Olympia Hall) is a concert venue in the 9th arrondissement of Paris, France, located at 28 Boulevard des Capucines, equally distancing Madeleine church and Opéra Garnier, north of Vendôme square.
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Ordre des Arts et des Lettres
The Ordre des Arts et des Lettres is an order of France established on 2 May 1957 by the Minister of Culture.
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Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire, historically and colloquially known as the Turkish Empire, was an imperial realm centered in Anatolia that controlled much of Southeast Europe, West Asia, and North Africa from the 14th to early 20th centuries; it also controlled parts of southeastern Central Europe, between the early 16th and early 18th centuries.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
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The Progressive Socialist Party (translit) is a Lebanese political party.
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Qatar
Qatar (قطر) officially the State of Qatar, is a country in West Asia. It occupies the Qatar Peninsula on the northeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Middle East; it shares its sole land border with Saudi Arabia to the south, with the rest of its territory surrounded by the Persian Gulf.
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Rabat
Rabat (also,; ar-Ribāṭ) is the capital city of Morocco and the country's seventh-largest city with an urban population of approximately 580,000 (2014) and a metropolitan population of over 1.2 million.
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Rahbani brothers
The Rahbani brothers (Arabic: الأخوان رحباني), Assi Rahbani (4 May 1923 – 21 June 1986) and Mansour Rahbani (1925 – 13 January 2009) were Lebanese sibling musicians, composers, songwriters, authors, and playwrights/dramatists, best known for their work with the singer Fairuz, Assi's wife.
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Riad Al Sunbati
Riad Mohamed El Sunbati (رياض محمد السنباطي), also written as Riad Sonbati or Riadh Sonbati (30 November 1906 – 10 September 1981) was a 20th-century Egyptian composer and musician who was considered an icon of Egyptian Music.
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Riad Seif
Riad Seif (رياض سيف; born 25 November 1946) is a Syrian political dissident and prominent businessman who founded and led the Forum for National Dialogue.
Royal Albert Hall
The Royal Albert Hall is a concert hall on the northern edge of South Kensington, London, England.
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Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall is a 2,700-seat concert, dance and talks venue within Southbank Centre in London, England.
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Safar Barlik (film)
Safar Barlik (سفر برلك) is a 1967 Lebanese musical and war film directed by Henry Barakat.
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Salle Pleyel
The Salle Pleyel (meaning "Pleyel Hall") is a concert hall in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, France, designed by the acoustician Gustave Lyon together with the architect Jacques Marcel Auburtin, who died in 1926, and the work was completed in 1927 by his collaborators André Granet and Jean-Baptiste Mathon.
Sami Moubayed
Sami Moubayed (سامي مروان مبيّض) (born 16 July 1978) is a Syrian historian and writer whose works cover the modern history of Damascus from the late Ottoman period until the creation of the United Arab Republic in 1958.
Syria
Syria, officially the Syrian Arab Republic, is a country in West Asia located in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Levant.
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Syriac Orthodox Church
The Syriac Orthodox Church (ʿIdto Sūryoyto Trīṣath Shubḥo); also known as West Syriac Church or West Syrian Church, officially known as the Syriac Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch and All the East, and informally as the Jacobite Church, is an Oriental Orthodox church that branched from the Church of Antioch.
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Syrian occupation of Lebanon
The Syrian occupation of Lebanon (Arabic: الاحتلال السوري للبنان) lasted from 1976, beginning with the Syrian intervention in the Lebanese Civil War, until April 30, 2005.
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The Christian Science Monitor
The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.
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The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Independent
The Independent is a British online newspaper.
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The National (Abu Dhabi)
The National is a UAE state-owned English-language daily newspaper published in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.
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The New York Times
The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.
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Tunis
Tunis (تونس) is the capital and largest city of Tunisia.
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Tunisia
Tunisia, officially the Republic of Tunisia, is the northernmost country in Africa.
Turquoise
Turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral that is a hydrous phosphate of copper and aluminium, with the chemical formula.
Typesetting
Typesetting is the composition of text for publication, display, or distribution by means of arranging physical ''type'' (or sort) in mechanical systems or glyphs in digital systems representing characters (letters and other symbols).
Umm Kulthum
Umm Kulthum (4 May 1904 – 3 February 1975) was an Egyptian singer, songwriter, and film actress active from the 1920s to the 1970s. She was given the honorific title ("Star of the Orient"). Immensely popular throughout the Arab World, Kulthum is a national icon in her native Egypt; she has been dubbed "The Voice of Egypt" and "Egypt's Fourth Pyramid". Fairuz and Umm Kulthum are EMI Classics and Virgin Classics artists and singers who perform in Classical Arabic.
UNESCO
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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United Nations General Assembly
The United Nations General Assembly (UNGA or GA; Assemblée générale, AG) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN), serving as its main deliberative, policymaking, and representative organ.
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Virgin Records
Virgin Records is a British record label owned by Universal Music Group.
Wadih El Safi
Wadih El Safi (Wadīʿ aṣ-Ṣāfī, born Wadih Francis; November 1, 1921 – October 11, 2013) was a Lebanese singer and composer. Fairuz and Wadih El Safi are Performers of Christian music in Arabic and singers who perform in Classical Arabic.
Walid Jumblatt
Walid Kamal Jumblatt (translit; born 7 August 1949) is a Lebanese politician who was the leader of the Progressive Socialist Party from 1977 until 2023.
Zahrat al-Mada'en
Zahrat al-Mada'en (زهرة المدائن, Flower of the Cities, marketed under its French title La Fleur des Cités) is a 1967 Arabic song performed by Lebanese singer Fairuz, composed by the Rahbani brothers and written by Said Akl.
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Zaki Nassif
Zaki Nassif (زكي ناصيف; 4 July 1918 – 10 March 2004) was a Lebanese music composer and singer. Fairuz and Zaki Nassif are Performers of Christian music in Arabic.
Ziad Rahbani
Ziad Rahbani (زياد الرحباني, born 1956) is a Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator.
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali
Zine El Abidine Ben Ali (translit, Tunisian Arabic:; 3 September 1936 – 19 September 2019), commonly known as Ben Ali or Ezzine, was a Tunisian politician who served as the second president of Tunisia from 1987 to 2011.
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Zuqaq al-Blat
Zuqaq al-Blat (زقاق البلاط) is one of the twelve quarters of Beirut.
2020 Beirut explosion
On 4 August 2020, a large amount of ammonium nitrate stored at the Port of Beirut in the capital city of Lebanon exploded, causing at least 218 deaths, 7,000 injuries, and US$15 billion in property damage, as well as leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless.
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See also
20th-century Lebanese women singers
- Aida Chalhoub
- Badia Masabni
- Dania Khatib
- Diana Haddad
- Elissa (singer)
- Fairuz
- Ferial Karim
- Hiba Kawas
- Julia Boutros
- Karol Sakr
- Lydia Canaan
- Majdala
- Majida El Roumi
- Marie Jubran
- May Nasr
- Mona Maraachli
- Najwa Karam
- Nawal El Zoghbi
- Nicole Saba
- Nour Al Hoda
- Pascale Machaalani
- Pascale Sakr
- Sabah (singer)
- Sahar Taha
- Salwa Al Katrib
- Suzanne Tamim
- Tania Saleh
- Yasmine Hamdan
Converts to Eastern Orthodoxy from Oriental Orthodoxy
- Ablgharib Artsruni
- Fairuz
Lebanese Oriental Orthodox Christians
- Antoine Pano
- Aram I
- Fairuz
- Hagop Pakradounian
- Hovnan Derderian
- Ignatius Noah of Lebanon
- Nora Bayrakdarian
- Varoujan Hergelian
Lebanese people of Turkish descent
- Amin Maalouf
- Dina Al-Sabah
- Fairuz
- Fathi Yakan
- Huda Naamani
- Lebanese Turkmen
- Nassim Maalouf
- Razane Jammal
- Rose al Yusuf (journalist)
- Safia Chamia
- Saniya Habboub
- Shirine Khoury-Haq
Performers of Christian music in Arabic
- Abeer Nehme
- Carole Samaha
- Elissa (singer)
- Fairuz
- Hiba Tawaji
- Julia Boutros
- Majida El Roumi
- Marie Keyrouz
- Pascale Sakr
- Simor Jalal
- Wadih El Safi
- Zaki Nassif
Recipients of the National Order of the Cedar
- Alexander Alam
- Ali Ghandour
- Bruno Loi
- Carlos Slim
- Charles Elachi
- Claudio Graziano
- Fairuz
- Faisal of Saudi Arabia
- Fawwaz bin Abdulaziz Al Saud
- Fouad Boutros
- Fouad Naffah
- Hampar Kelikian
- James Sreenan
- Jioji Konrote
- Lamia Abbas Amara
- Mary Lee Mills
- Melhem Karam
- Mounira Solh
- Moustafa Farroukh
- Nabiha Lotfy
- Nadim Lataif
- Najah Salam
- Nayef bin Abdulaziz
- Parsegh Ganatchian
- Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow
- Plácido Domingo
- Roberto Vannacci
- Tufton Beamish, Baron Chelwood
- Ziad Rafiq Beydoun
Recipients of the Order of Merit (Lebanon)
- Ahmed Rami (poet)
- Ali Wehbi
- Alice Delysia
- Anissa Rawda Najjar
- Aram Karamanoukian
- Asad Rustum
- Camille Cordahi
- Duraid Lahham
- Emile Boustany
- Fairuz
- Jesse B. Jackson
- Maha Bayrakdar
- Moustafa Farroukh
- Munira Mosli
- Noubar Afeyan
- Order of Merit (Lebanon)
- Stanley Kerr
- The Mayyas
- Victor Kassir
Singers from Beirut
Syriac Orthodox Christians
- Abu Raita al-Takriti
- Al-Akhtal al-Taghlibi
- Antoine Pano
- Bishara (singer)
- Charbel Georges
- David B. Perley
- David Durmaz
- Elias Zazi
- Fairuz
- Farid Nazha
- Februniye Akyol
- Frank Marino
- Hammouda Sabbagh
- Hatune Dogan
- Ibn Zur'a
- Ibrahim Baylan
- Jabra Ibrahim Jabra
- Jimmy Durmaz
- John the Stylite
- Jorge Asís
- Kennedy Bakircioglu
- Louay Chanko
- Naum Faiq
- Ninos Aho
- Nouri Iskandar
- Sarah Chakko
- Sebastian Brock
- Shamoun Hanna Haydo
- Sharbel Touma
- Stephan Hanna Stephan
- Yacoub Shaheen
- Yahya ibn Adi
- Yahya ibn Jarir
- Yahya ibn al-Batriq
- Yilmaz Kerimo
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairuz
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