Lebanese Singer Composes Song Criticizing Beirut's Conditions

By: Menna Sayed

CAIRO, Dec. 10 (SEE)-For the first time in his artistic career, the Lebanese singer Ragheb Alama comes with a new political song criticized the situations in his country.

The message of the new song, “Tar El Balad” is urging the Lebanese to stand against what happening in their land to save Lebanon before it’s too late.

Alama, in his new song, focuses on various issues that faces the Lebanese street such as the country's increasing mountain of garbage and the high fuel prices.

The crisis dates back to the time the PM Saad Al-Hariri was assigned to form the new Lebanese government in May after making the first parliamentary elections in the country 9 years ago, which later sparked the conflicts between the political blocs and prevented the PM from to forming a new government.

The complex challenge in forming the new Lebanese government rotates around the representers of independent deputies, 6 members closed to “Hezb'allah” which insists on representing them as one minister in the new government formation, which is contrary to the constitution according to Hariri.

In late July 2015, the Lebanese people staged a demonstration because of the accumulation of garbage in the street which has not been entrusted to the citizen since the civil war (1957- 1990).

Although sectarianism tops the political and social life in Lebanon, the environmental disaster made the Lebanese stand together against the ruling class, so thousands of people went to the street in continuous demonstrations in downtown Beirut.

These popular demonstrations succeeded in putting the government under pressure to find out solutions for the garbage problem, which has been achieved through a temporary plan, to develop a number of landfills in many Lebanese areas, prior to the submission of a sustainable plan consistent with the national standards.