The Lebanese government's announcement that "Hafez al-Assad Avenue" will now be renamed "Ziad Rahbani Avenue" was not just the replacement of a street’s name with another; it was the replacement of ...

Lebanon has decided to rebaptise a thoroughfare named after former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad in favour of late Lebanese musician and playwright Ziad Rahbani, a move many welcomed on Wednesday.

Lebanon is officially renaming Hafez el-Assad Avenue in Beirut to Ziad Rahbani Avenue instead! Hafez el-Assad was Syria’s ...

On 25 July 2025, Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, finally released, returned to his native Lebanon where he was welcomed as a hero. The next morning, Ziad Rahbani, musician, theatre and radio personality, ...

Lebanon this week mourned the passing of one of its most beloved artists. Musician and playwright Ziad Rahbani died a week ago. NPR's Michael Levitt has this remembrance. MICHAEL LEVITT, BYLINE: In ...

Raised in a storied family — his mother, Fayrouz, is one of the Arab world’s most beloved singers — he wrote works reflecting ...

He was to the manner born. His mother Fairouz is Lebanon’s most iconic singer, a diva whose haunting voice continues to ...

The New Arab remembers and honours Ziad Rahbani, the legendary Lebanese composer, satirist, and pioneer of ’Oriental jazz’, ...

Ziad Rahbani, a visionary Lebanese composer, playwright, pianist and political provocateur, died on Saturday, at the age of 69, according to the state-run National News Agency. The ...

Two musicians with huge followings in their respective countries and diasporas have just died. Cohosts Carolyn Beeler and Marco Werman remember Daddy Lumba from Ghana and Lebanon’s Ziad Rahbani, their ...

Legendary Lebanese singer Fairuz attended the funeral of her son, renowned composer and playwright, Ziad Rahbani, at a church ...

It felt like all of Lebanon came out to pay their respects to Ziad Rahbani, the Lebanese composer who died at the weekend, at the Church of the Dormition of the Virgin in his hometown of Mhaydseh, ...