12 Facts About Ziad Rahbani

Ziad Rahbani is a Lebanese composer, pianist, playwright, and political commentator.

Ziad Rahbani is the son of Fairouz, one of Lebanon and the Arab world's most famous singers, and Assi Rahbani, one of the founders of modern Arabic music.

Ziad Rahbani is the son of the Lebanese composer Assi Rahbani and Nouhad Haddad, the Lebanese female singer known as Fairuz.

Ziad Rahbani composed a number of songs about their relationship, including "Marba el Dalal" and "Bisaraha".

Ziad Rahbani has a long-standing relationship with Lebanese leftist movements, and is a self-declared communist, being a lifelong affiliate with the Lebanese Communist Party.

Furthermore, in an interview with the journalist Ghassan Bin-Jiddu, Ziad Rahbani stated that the bloodbath massacres in the Palestinian camp Tall a-Za'tar by extreme-rightist Christian militias in 1976 was the main reason that drove him to leave to West Beirut.

Ziad Rahbani was popularly understood to be atheist, which is very uncommon in Lebanon.

Ziad Rahbani's first known artistic work was "Sadiqi Allah", a collection of writings between the years 1967 and 1968 when he was in his teens.

In 1973, at age 17, Ziad Rahbani composed his first music for Fairuz, his mother.

Ziad Rahbani appeared for the first time on stage in Al Mahatta where he played the role of the detective.

Ziad Rahbani followed that with highly politicized string of plays.

Before, during and after the war, Ziad Rahbani released and co-released several albums like: Bi hal shakel, Abou Ali, Halleluja, Shareet Ghayr Houdoudi, Houdou Nesbi, Ana Mouch Kafer, Hakaya al Atfal, Bema Enno, Monodose and Maaloumat Mush Akidi.