This book reads the world of Fairouz and the Rahbanis as an artistic and ideological construction rather than as an untouchable icon. Through the figures of the stranger, the treasure, and the miracle, Fawwaz Traboulsi traces the recurring images and dramatic logic that shaped village, homeland, innocence, and loss in Rahbani theater. Its strength lies in the balance it keeps between attachment and critique: the book neither demolishes this major cultural canon nor settles for celebrating it, but asks what social dreams and exclusions it carries.
Fairouz and the Rahbanis: The Theater of the Stranger, the Treasure, and the Miracle
فيروز والرحابنة: مسرح الغريب والكنز والأعجوبة