I am Lebanese and was chased out of the country due to the civil war and never went back. But it was a fabulous country, the Switzrland of the Middle East, and a religiously plural country until the lack of a standing lead directly to its decline and fault.
Still, in its hey day both Kinks and Joan baez played the country and the Beatles? When they landed at Beirut International Airport to refuel, the plane got mobbed.
Lady Gaga is precisely the sort of performer the Lebanese middle class adore, those multi-culti, tri-lingual superstars of the Middle East! And I am sure they will listen to it plenty, despite the preposterous banning of the album by the laughingly called Lebanese authorities. This in a country that always had a htriving homosexual community to boot.
The ripping apart of Lebanon, a country which had the absolute opportunity of being the center of all commerce, all culture, all Western influnces in the Middle East, but was dismantled until.. I have no idea what it is today.
A place that bans Lady Gaga.