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No public intellectual has an aura like Fairouz\u2019s. With over 1,000 songs, 20 musicals and three motion pictures, the singer continues to shape politics, lives and attitudes towards \u201chome\u201d in the Arab diaspora. An exclusive excerpt from Dima Issa’s new book.<\/h5>\n

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Dima Issa<\/h4>\n

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Amidst the tumultuous waves of events across the Arab world since January 2011, and bearing in mind attitudes towards Arabs in the Western world since September 11, 2001 (and arguably before), <\/span>Fairouz<\/span><\/a> could not be more significant. Through her songs, Fairouz offers her listeners a space in which to engage, reflecting on the past but making a room for the present and future. In the depths of a crumbling economy, a fraudulent government and a global pandemic, a bomb destroyed the Port of Beirut in Lebanon on August 4, 2020. Estimated to be the equivalent of 1,000 to 1,500 tons of TNT \u2014 a tenth of the power of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima \u2014 the explosion killed hundreds, displaced thousands and badly damage buildings, homes and property within its six-mile radius. The country went into mourning. Making matters worse, the Lebanese government took no responsibility, or even commented on the atrocity, sparking further anger and frustration among an already exhausted population.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora<\/em> is published by Bloomsbury.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Weeks after the blast, French president Emmanuel Macron paid a visit to Lebanon. His first official visit was to Fairouz\u2019s home, where he awarded the singer with the French Legion of Honor, the highest of awards. The visit was seen as symbolic, a nostalgic appraisal of the Lebanon she had sung for and about all her life. A hopeful, idyllic and romanticized Lebanon, a stark contrast to the Lebanon of today, which was corrupt, broken and filled with despair. More importantly, the award showcased the strength of Fairouz, her emblematic position, which she stood for and what she meant, not just for Lebanon but also for her listeners across the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

Placing the Arab diaspora of Doha and London at the forefront of this study, I investigate the role Fairouz\u2019s music plays in their lives while simultaneously shedding light on the circumstances shaping their diaspora experiences.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Since the late 1990s, Qatar and its capital Doha have witnessed a number of structural, economic and social political changes that have transformed the once flat, sandy landscape into state-of-the-art skyscrapers and glistening buildings. Perhaps representative of the rapid transformations taking place across the small peninsula is the Lebanese school in Doha, a modern building erected on what was once a barren desert. Among the chatter, the heavy footsteps and the sleepy faces, Fairouz\u2019s voice is heard over the school\u2019s outdoor speakers, welcoming students and parents every morning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This initiative was executed by Mona, 45, a concerned parent, who, after dropping off her children at school one day, saw two men in a heated argument over Lebanese politics in the parking lot, \u201c<\/span>I got in my car and I started listening to Fairouz. I thought to myself, ouf, if they listen to her, I\u2019m sure they wouldn\u2019t disagree<\/span><\/i>,\u201d she says earnestly.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Later that afternoon Mona wrote an email to Walid, the headmaster of the school, explaining the situation she saw earlier, and she proposed a solution \u2014 play Fairouz while parents are dropping off their children from 7 to 7:30 a.m.<\/span><\/p>\n

Walid was quick to accept, for him it was an opportunity to \u201c<\/span>preserve Lebanese heritage<\/span><\/i>\u201d in a globalize environment that he thought was pushing the younger generation to diverge from \u201c<\/span>Arab culture and the Arabic language<\/span><\/i>.\u201d This idea of reminding parents and children of Fairouz, and what she stands for, is in itself a form of identity construction that Walid and Mona not only wanted to be a part of but also were keen to share with others within their sphere of influence. By consciously choosing to play Fairouz\u2019s songs, Mona and Walid set out to build a strategically effective space to encourage \u201cArabness\u201d and political understanding, but also to compensate for any shortcomings in achieving either objective.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Drawing \u2026 on Walter Benjamin\u2019s notion of \u201caura\u2019 is significant in order to understand how \u201cfiguring and refiguring\u201d can occur in different geopolitical circumstances. In <\/span>The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction<\/span><\/i><\/a> (1936), Benjamin argues that the evolution of technology has resulted in the loss of \u201caura,\u201d since artworks are no longer seen in their physical and temporal entirety. For Benjamin, removing art from its place in space and time devalues its \u201caura.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, in the context of Fairouz, her \u201caura\u201d takes on different forms and is strengthened among the diasporic community across borders and generations. As a \u201cfigure,\u201d Fairouz transforms accordingly. For example, when asked what Fairouz means to her in London, Helene, 52, a Lebanese woman who has lived there for \u201caround 24 years\u201d responded: \u201c<\/span>that I\u2019m far … far from the Lebanon that I know. Far away from the mood and ambience that I\u2019m used to…<\/span><\/i>\u201d<\/span> Helene\u2019s statement shows how Fairouz\u2019s \u201caura\u201d manipulates according to different \u201cindividual histories\u201d and social situations to take on deep-seated and discursive meanings.<\/span><\/p>\n

Unlike the piece of artwork that Benjamin argues needs to be appreciated in a certain temporal and spatial atmosphere to ensure its full \u201caura\u201d is attained, Fairouz herself produces this \u201caura.\u201d She is at once an experience to be appreciated and also one who enhances the experience, \u201c<\/span>even if she wasn\u2019t present in her voice, the air in Lebanon contains Fairouz in it<\/span><\/i>,\u201d she has both integrated into space and is a primary conductor of it. Fairouz is thus found in \u201c<\/span>Syria<\/span><\/i>,\u201d \u201c<\/span>Lebanon<\/span><\/i>,\u201d \u201c<\/span>Kuwait<\/span><\/i>,\u201d \u201c<\/span>Abu Dhabi<\/span><\/i>\u201d and \u201c<\/span>in the background of every restaurant, every taxi ride<\/span><\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Fairouz is associated with home, with land, with countries and with a region. She is borderless, yet she simultaneously erects the mnemonic affective borders of time and space. \u201c<\/span>She\u2019s part of all of us<\/span><\/i>,\u201d an intrinsically specific, yet generally inclusive, form of identity, one which is determined in space and upbringing, since \u201c<\/span>Fairouz has been in all Lebanese homes for a very long time<\/span><\/i>,\u201d but also \u201c<\/span>She\u2019s all over, ya3ni, in all my memories Fairouz is there. She\u2019s everywhere<\/span><\/i>.\u201d Participants in these examples show how Fairouz not only provides the soundtrack to mnemonic space but also how she is embedded in the personal space of the individual and the collective.<\/span><\/p>\n

Fairouz takes on an immersive role … She exists, with or without participants, as Ayman, 34, Syrian, living in London, states, \u201c<\/span>I came to Fairouz\u2019s era rather than Fairouz coming to mine<\/span><\/i> \u2026\u201d This further enhances the notion of Fairouz\u2019s omnipresence and immortality among her listeners \u2026\u201d Fairouz thus occupies a prenatal, parental and postnatal space, straddling the gap between childhood and adulthood \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

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In his book <\/span>The Suffering of the Immigrant<\/span><\/i> (2004), <\/span>Abdelmalek Sayad<\/span><\/a> argues, \u201cimmigration results in a presence, and emigration finds expression in an absence. A presence makes itself felt; an absence is noted. A presence can be adjusted, regulated, controlled and managed. An absence is masked, compensated for and denied.\u201d Via Fairouz\u2019s music, respondents were able to vocalize their situations between the two states.<\/span><\/p>\n

For Carmen, a Palestinian, \u201cabsence \u201cand \u201cpresence\u201d take on a very different meaning, as do notions of \u201cplace\u201d and \u201cspace.\u201d Carmen, in Doha, is reminded of \u201cplace\u201d through Fairouz\u2019s songs. During an emotional interview at a Doha coffee shop, Carmen recalls listening to Fairouz\u2019s songs about Jerusalem, and \u201c<\/span>there isn\u2019t a time I listen to it when I don\u2019t cry.<\/span><\/i>\u201d Fairouz brings her back to \u201c<\/span>the roads of Jerusalem, the churches, how our life was<\/span><\/i>,\u201d to a \u201cplace\u201d active in her mnemonic imagination. Carmen\u2019s emotional response to place is one she feels is specific to her and other Palestinians, since \u201c<\/span>any person who listens to the songs of Jerusalem and stuff might not feel sad \u2026 but for us it is<\/span><\/i>.\u201d Here, affect is manifested in absence, but it is absence not only of the individual, but of the \u201cplace\u201d itself. Carmen\u2019s \u201c<\/span>us<\/span><\/i>\u201d is inclusive of those who feel that \u201cabsence\u201d and displacement. With the Israeli occupation of Palestinian land, the continuous demolition of homes, physical and emotional violence, and Israeli settlers moving into Palestinian properties, Carmen is unable to return to Palestine.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In discussion with participants, many referred to \u201c<\/span>baytuna<\/span><\/i>\u201d\/ \u201c<\/span>bayti<\/span><\/i>,\u201d our\/my home, or \u201c<\/span>baladna<\/span><\/i>\u201d\/ \u201c<\/span>baladi<\/span><\/i>,\u201d our\/my country, or \u201c<\/span>watanna<\/span><\/i>\u201d\/ \u201c<\/span>watani<\/span><\/i>\u201d, our\/my nation, or even \u201c<\/span>dayi\u2019tna<\/span><\/i>\u201d\/ \u201c<\/span>day\u2019ti<\/span><\/i>,\u201d our\/my village. Those were mainly talked about in the past tense, \u201c<\/span>kan<\/span><\/i>,\u201d from the perspective of living in \u201cAl-ghurba\u201d [as a foreigner or outsider]. As Mahmoud Darwish writes <\/span>In the Presence of Absence<\/span><\/i><\/a>, (2011), \u201chomeland is not always daylight and exile is not night \u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201c<\/span>Listening to Fairouz in \u2018Al-ghurba\u2019 means so so so much more to you<\/span><\/i>,\u201d says Amar, 39, Lebanese, in Doha. It is a \u201cmore emotional\u201d experience, often resulting in \u201c<\/span>haneen<\/span><\/i>,\u201d a word similarto the Welsh word \u201chiraeth,\u201d roughly translated as \u201chomesickness\u201d or \u201cnostalgia,\u201d or to a \u201cstate of missing\/craving\/yearning \u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Fairouz \u2026 is both instigator and cure for \u201c<\/span>haneen<\/span><\/i>,\u201d which is, paradoxically, mutually exclusive, but also deeply symbiotic with being in a state of \u201c<\/span>Al-ghurba<\/span><\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Names of all participants and interviewees in the study have been changed and their voices appear in italics in the above essay, excerpted from <\/span>Fairouz and the Arab Diaspora: Music and Identity in the UK and Qatar<\/span><\/a>, by Dima Issa, published by I.B. Tauris\/Bloomsbury Publishing. <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

** Special for TMR readers: Order the book online direct from Bloomsbury with this code, GLR TW5, and receive 35% off.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

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