Sabah: The Timeless Voice Lighting Up Lebanon’s Soul

Marie-Christine Tayah, 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Sabah, born Jeanette Georges Feghali in 1925 in the hilltop village of Bdadoun near Wadi Chahrour—the mysterious “Valley of the Blackbird”—was destined for artistry. Poetry ran in her family; her uncle, Anis Feghali, earned the nickname Shahrour El Wadi for his mastery of the traditional Arabic poetic form, zajal. Jeanette inherited this ...