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The Rahbani name is known across the entire Middle East and beyond.  For over 70 years, the family has been producing music and gaining fame in their native Lebanon in the 1950s before becoming household names in many neighboring countries.

Today, three generations of Rahbanis have become famous musicians, defining and shaping the cultural heritage of Lebanon and bringing their music to the world.

Fairuz, Assi, & Mansour

The story of the Rahbani family begins in the late 1940s with two brothers named Assi and Mansour. They were both musically inclined and had received an upbringing that included a fair amount of choral and classical training. Their start in the music industry began with their jobs as paperboys in a local radio station in Beirut, where they were responsible for arranging music sheets and editing lyrics.

The station served as a platform for the Rahbani brothers to begin writing their own music. They put together a piece of music that impressed the radio station supervisor, Halim El Roumi, and he allowed them to perform their piece on live air. He noted that the two brothers were perfectionists and had a lot of potential as musicians.

In 1951, an up-and-coming singer named Nouhad Haddad (later known as Fairuz) came to the attention of Halim El Roumi, and he suggested the two brothers write a song for her. Thus began a lifelong collaboration between the three musicians.

Over 50 songs were released by the trio over the next three years. Assi, Mansour, and Fairuz skyrocketed to fame in the Lebanese music scene. They broke from their employment at the radio station and were able to support their group on their own.

Fairuz, the eldest of four children born into a Christian Arab household, had aspirations of becoming a singer.

Assi and Mansour Rahbani, are luminous stars. This duo dug in the Lebanese and Arab musical memory immortal songs. They are a unique state in the history of art because it imprinted in people's minds that art is a message and a different exceptional state.
 
The composer Ghadi Rahbani was a guest narrating the success story of “The Rahbani Brothers” in an event organized by the Public Relations and Communications Department at Beirut Arab University for the eighth consecutive year. The Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Bir Wal Ihasan and the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Beirut Arab University Dr. Ammar Houry, President of the University, Professor Wael Nabil Abdel Salam, Secretary-General, Dr. Omar Houri, Director General of the Ministry of Culture, Dr. Ali Samad, President of Syndicate of Actors in Lebanon, Mr. Neameh Badawi, Deans of faculties, a group of artists and friends of Rahbani family, in addition to BAU community, students and a large crowd of journalists.
 
As in every year the meeting was an occasion to highlight the successes of distinguished personalities such as Assi and Mansour Rahbani. This year, composer Ghadi Rahbani was chosen to tell the success story of the Rahbani Brothers through sixty years of artistic achievements, musicals and thousands of national and love songs that brought together all Lebanese around Feyrouz voice. The celebration started with the Lebanese national anthem and the university anthem, and then a documentary about the university.
 
On the theatre of Jamal Abdel Nasser Auditorium, the interview started in the form of a dialogue, which was moderated and presented by the Director of Public Relations and Communications, Mrs. Zina Ariss, praising the Rahbani Brothers, "They are great people from my country, a unique message in the Arab East. They established the just homeland in the minds of people and dreamt of it a

The Lebanese director Marwan Rahbani would feel he had failed as a dramatist if someone left the theatre after watching one of his productions having had a "nice time".

"I want, great, superb, shocking, or zero," he says. "I am black and white. I don't like grey. I don't want people to go away empty. I want to inject them with ideas and start a conversation."

Guaranteed to get a reaction is his modern Arabic interpretation of Miguel de Cervantes's literary masterpiece Don Quixote, which has been given top billing at the Byblos International Festival in Lebanon this month. Record numbers are expected at the annual event, which boasts this year an international lineup of acts including Moby, Jamie Cullum and the Scorpions.

Despite his current commutes between filming commitments in Dubai and rehearsals in Beirut, the energetic 53-year-old jumps up to greet me in his expansive book-lined Al Quoz office, exhibit

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