Abstract
At the height of Lebanon’s Cedar Revolution in 2005, when Beirut’s streets were packed with demonstrators protesting the murder of Rafiq Hariri and demanding an end to three decades of Syrian occupation, a striking music video hovered near the top of the region’s pop music charts: Issa Ghandour’s Min Safer. Ghandour’s song was a moody evocation of the meaning of place and of the spiritual costs of exile from that place. According to the lyrics the singer, in losing forever his country, had been exiled as well from his soul.
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Freund, C.P. (2009). Lebanon’s Culture: Popular Music as a Case Study. In: Rubin, B. (eds) Lebanon. The Middle East in Focus. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230622432_7
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