In the summer of 1975, a 19-year-old with no formal musical training sat down with a decade-old poem and, amid the beginning ...
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The sounds of Lebanese resistance

Lebanon is well known as the country of everlasting revolution, resisting oppression and overcoming national hurdles are part of who we are as a nation. Lebanese people have lived through countless ...
In honor of National Poetry Month, we’ve rounded up a selection of readings, performances, workshops, and celebrations of poetry’s vital place in our city’s culture. Whether you’re a poet, poetry ...
The Arab world has lost more than a singer; it has lost a sonic lighthouse that guided the displaced and the defiant through decades of darkness. Ahmad Kaabour, the Lebanese who passed away on 26 ...
If good intentions made for good art, then every biopic about Jesus Christ, from “The Robe” to “The Greatest Story Ever Told” to “The Passion of the Christ,” would be a work of art rather than the ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by This bio play about Marcel Marceau, which delves into his part in the French Resistance, stars Ethan Slater (yes, that’s Boq from the “Wicked” movies) ...
“Marcel on the Train” is not a comedy, although the play’s star and cowriter Ethan Slater promises that there’s laughter to be had. “We kind of knew that it was a show that effectively made people ...
Looking back at the year in music, it was very much a “Golden” age. But, demon hunting aside, did it also count as golden with a small G? As we dived through our favorite music of 2025 to consider ...
Texas A&M hosted its first-ever College Football Playoff game, and while over 104,000 fans were there in support of the Aggies, Marcel Reed and the Aggie offense couldn't get anything done as the ...
So there was no official song of summer. So let’s move beyond the biggest hits and check out the 10 songs we kept coming back to this year. The singer-songwriter who has worked with Miley Cyrus, ...
It’s still not clear why the board of the Massachusetts Convention Center Authority forced out Marcel Vernon Sr., barely a year after hiring him as its chief executive. But this much we do know: It’s ...