The Fairouz-Rahbani legacy is very much alive today, and will continue to be, but unfortunately it has lost some of its momentum with some people, especially the younger generations, in this age of materialism and cultural confusion. It is about the whole Arab culture, heritage and identity being under fire, and being undermined by some of our intellectuals , our media and the submissive philosophies sweeping our nation. Songs and video clips are increasingly progressing towards distorted poor imitation of Western songs and dances. All this chaos and nonsense is being dubbed as modernization and steps towards universality , and is being glamorized in our media as youthful.
Youth is about beauty, romance and strength.
Neither the songs of today nor the singers voices, their voice-enhancing machines and singing abilities are beautiful, romantic or strong. Everything authentic and progressive is getting discredited and belittle in the media, while the senseless and the misleading is being promoted and glamorized. It almost seems like it s an organized effort to trivialize and indoctrinate the young generation to be culture-less and confused. This state of chaos and confusion on all fronts, is bound to lead to devastation. In one of his drama writings, the renowned Osama Anwar Akasha, portrayed this problem in a story about an Egyptian who wanted to build a house incorporating Egypt s history and identity.