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Lebanon 1: Fairuz, Woman For All Seasons, Sunday Sept. 8

Fairuz is the most popular living singer throughout the Arabic- speaking world and an artist with no real counterpart in Europe or the Americas. Since the '50s, she has appealed across boundaries of age, gender, class, religion, nationality, regional dialect, and political persuasion. Creating music as serious  and engaged as it is popular, Fairuz- along with her collaborators from the Rahbani family of composer poets- has achieved near-universal appeal during a time of unprecedented division and social strife. This program explores Fairuz's remarkable biography guided by her biographer Kenneth Habib, and Ghady Rahbani,among others. That's coming up on Afropop Worldwide Sunday, September 8 at noon on 90.5 fm.

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