Retrieved November 21, 2017 | 1969: Banned from radio stations for six months after refusing to perform a private concert for the president of Algeria• The Guardian stated that "she sang the story of a Lebanon that never really existed" and "essentially helped build the identity of Lebanon, just 14 years after it became an independent country" |
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Also featured are songs by Philemon Wehbe, , , Mohamed Abd El Wahab, Najib Hankash and Mohamed Mohsen | Retrieved 2019-05-25 |
Even some Syrian opposition activists called on her to boycott the event as just three years prior Syria had been accused of carrying out a series of assassinations on the Lebanese.
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Some who lived in the city were not even of Arab background making it even harder to relate to the music forms of the time | February 8, 2009 |
This was the period where her role as a prominent Lebanese figure would be cemented.
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