“Fairouz is above all laws,” she added. Most of Fairouz’s songs were penned by her late husband, Assi Rahbani, and his brother Mansour, together known as “The Rahbani Brothers,” and now ...

Scandal has hit the Rahbani family. Ziad Rahbani, the son of Lebanese diva Feirouz and great musician Assi Rahbani, said he discovered in 2004 that his son, whom he had named after his own father ...

Rahbani was the brother of Assi Rahbani, who was married to Lebanese singing diva Fairuz, for whom the two men composed many poems and songs. The pair, who became known as the Rahbani Brothers ...

On June 21, 1986 Assi Rahbani died after spending several weeks in a coma, leaving behind him a great legacy to his compatriots and an inspiration to all Arab artists. Modern Arab music was shaped ...

Radio Lebanon was also a platform for the most important event in Fairouz’s artistic career, the encounter with Assi Rahbani (1923-1986), which culminated in their marriage at the beginning of 1955.

On 4 January, Lebanon lost one of its last great composers of the past century, Elias Rahbani, to Covid-19 at the age of 83. The younger brother of the late Assi and Mansour Rahbani, the famed ...

Mansour Rahbani, who has died aged 83, was a Lebanese composer known throughout the Arab world for a long and productive artistic partnership with his brother Assi and the legendary diva Fairouz.

Designation: It was clear that Ziad Rahbani, son of the composer Assi Rahbani and the Lebanese diva Fairouz, had a creative streak from an early age. It was clear that Ziad Rahbani, son of the ...

(Or What, Exactly?). Instead, the “Ambassador to the Stars” has been embroiled in ongoing legal struggles for the right to perform most of her catalogue, which was composed almost entirely by her late ...

“The Piccadilly Theater on Hamra had closed its doors,” the narrator mourns Assi and Beirut. “There would be no more musicals by the Rahbani brothers. Lebanon was at war. Assi had just ...