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This is an AP wire photo that I purchased off of ebay a couple years back. I don't know whether the photo ever showed up in any news r...

  RIP my old pal Otis Grand (on left), who passed away on June 7 in London. Me in the middle, on vocals, on the right, Walid Boustany. W...

Back in 2012, I posted (on one of my other blogs, mepop) about Yasmine Hamdan's self-titled album, released in Lebanon and France in 20...

I sooooo love this photo by Thomas Abercrombie from the April 1958 issue of National Geographic, and featured as "photo of the day...

 ( The Daily Star/Hasan Shaaban) Sadat and Amr 7a7a made a "surprise" appearance at the Home Works 6 forum on May 15 in Beiru...

the ruptured sessions vol. 5 CD release party , a photo by tsweden on Flickr. I arrived in Beirut on March 15. It's now the 24th, a...

This song, the title track to Ziad al Rahbani's 1985 album, Houdou Nisbi (relative calm), speaks to the situation in Lebanon right n...

One of my lovely FB friends (I forget who) turned me on to the Lebanese Jewish singer Wadad (Bahiya Wahbeh) and her terrific song, from 1962...

Courtesy DJ Nickodemus, Justin Carty, Jackson Allen, Shortfuse Films: a terrific video with gorgeous scenes of Beirut and raps from Lebanese...

It's not just Milk , folks. 1. Yesterday the Lebanese LGBTIQ support organization Helem organized a sit-in to protest violence against ...

Angry Arab has been reporting that many demonstrations in Lebanon in solidarity with Gaza have been led by leftists and in particular, the ...

Otis Grand is one of the world's great blues guitarists. We were together at the American University of Beirut in the late sixties and e...