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Between Beirut and Jabal Amel, cassette tapes moved through radio stations, cars, private parties and village nights. For DJs Ali, Mohammad and Youssef, they were also the tools through which a new nightlife took shape in the 1980s and 1990s.
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By the mid-1990s, Mohammad and Youssef had fitted a car with speakers and amplifiers and were playing parties across Beirut, the suburbs, the Bekaa and the South. House, Eurodance and hip-hop mixed with dabke and Arabic pop.
When these parties travelled back to the villages, music met tighter social limits. Today, amid erasure in South Lebanon, Diana Abbani returns to tapes, photographs and memories as a small archive of a scene that rarely entered official histories.
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Join us tomorrow at AL.Bazaar at AL.Festival in Berlin.
We’ll be there with a selection of UntoldMag print issues, alongside members of our community and MENA Art Gallery. Come by, say hello, browse the publications, and spend some time with us.
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The name al-Āṣī - the “defiant” or “unruly” - is said to reflect both the Orontes River’s unusual course, running against the flow of other rivers in the Middle East, and its resistance to those who attempted to cross it throughout the ages.
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Today, the Orontes is increasingly absent from public discourse among some communities along its banks.
As one 22-year-old resident says:
“Sometimes I forget the river even exists… If you hadn’t asked me, I wouldn’t have mentioned it”.
Read Joelle Deeb’s contribution to Archives in Motion: Cultural Practices and Political Imaginaries from Syria and Lebanon, produced by Ettijahat. Independent Culture and published in partnership with UntoldMag.
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