Composer and oud player Marcel Khalife, in a tribute on social media platform X, wrote: "My homeland is Fairuz's voice." Born Nouhad Haddad in 1934 to a working-class Christian family in Beirut's ...

Fairouz was born Nihad Wadie Haddad to a poor family in Zuqaq el-Balatt neighborhood in Beirut in 1935. In the 1960s and 1970s she achieved regional and international fame with dozens of popular ...

he said. While in Beirut after the 2020 explosion which devastated Beirut port, Macron visited Fairouz to bestow on her France’s Legion d’Honneur. Nouhad Wadie Haddad was born during Lebanon’s French ...

Fairuz and the olives have something else in ... my fiancée's parents – who have in fact spent their entire lives near Beirut – wanted to travel to their old home region during harvest ...

Legendary Arab singer Fairuz, whose ballads have told of love, her native Lebanon and the Palestinian cause, turned 90 on Thursday as her conflict-weary country is wracked by the Israel-Hezbollah war.