Michael Levitt is a news assistant for All Things Considered who is based in Atlanta, Georgia. He graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Political Science. Before coming to NPR, Levitt worked in the solar ...

From humanitarian airdrops in Gaza and the US-EU trade agreement, to the massive earthquake in Russia, the fires in Iraq and ...

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 is a renowned Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator, born in 1956. He is best known for his innovative contributions to Arabic music and theatre, blending ...

Hundreds of people in Lebanon have paid tribute to iconic composer, pianist and playwright Ziad Rahbani, who died over the ...

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 ...

Ziad Rahbani’s funeral processions began in Beirut’s Hamra district, before a ceremony in the northern Lebanese town of ...

Lebanon's diva Fairuz, right, one of the Arab world's most popular singers and the mother of Ziad Rahbani, a visionary ...