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Published on: 09/30/2026 - 14:31

In this issue of Culture, Liana Saleh hosts musician and oud player Marcel Khalife, who, fifty years ago, arrived in Paris, bringing with him his oud and promises from the storm. An album in which his voice met Mahmoud Darwish’s poetry, from “Passport,” “Rita and the Venice,” and “I Long for My Mother’s Bread”…songs that crossed borders and imprinted on the consciences of entire generations. Today, the album returns in a new edition, while other wars ravage the region. How, after half a century, does Marcel Khalife hear the promises of that storm?

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