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Article: Songs of peasant liberty and oppression.
- Article from:
- The Daily Star (Beirut, Lebanon)
- Article date:
- August 13, 2009
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Byline: Muriel Kahwagi
Summary:
"A fighter battles until victory or until death," virtuous mutineer Sayf Elbahr bawls defiantly at the evil tyrant's lackey, Captain Assaf al-Daher. "And either way, you cannot sue him." The summer of 1840 was a heated and frenzied time for the Lebanese, as depicted by the late Mansour Rahbani. When the Ammiyah (peasant) leaders abandoned their former disputes.
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BYBLOS: "A fighter battles until victory or until death," virtuous mutineer Sayf Elbahr bawls defiantly at the evil tyrant's lackey, Captain Assaf al-Daher. "And either way, you cannot sue him." The summer of 1840 was a heated and frenzied time for ...