Raised in a storied family — his mother, Fayrouz, is one of the Arab world’s most beloved singers — he wrote works reflecting ...

Ziad Rahbani died at age 69 on Saturday, Lebanese newspaper L'Orient-Le Jour reported, citing a statement from the hospital ...

A son of Lebanese musical icons, he became one himself, with satirical critiques of his country’s dysfunction that melded ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Ziad Rahbani, a visionary Lebanese composer, playwright, pianist and political provocateur, died on Saturday, ...

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

He was to the manner born. His mother Fairouz is Lebanon’s most iconic singer, a diva whose haunting voice continues to ...

Ziad Rahbani’s musical, theatrical, and radio works have left their mark on the memory of more than one generation. Ziad ...

Ziad Rahbani, the Lebanese composer and musician who created a distinct Lebanese sound from Western and Arabic musical roots, ...

It is with shock at the earliness of his departure that Lebanon bids farewell to Ziad al-Rahbani, a pillar of radical ...

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 ...

A true musical maverick, Ziad Rahbani didn’t do things in half measures. He lived a free life, on his own terms; and left the same way ...

From Beirut’s Hamra district, long considered a backdrop to his work and a hub of Lebanon’s cultural life, Ziad Rahbani began his final journey on Monday morning. The body of the Lebanese composer, ...