The Hairdryer Treatment

These 12 songs on this compilation look at the Arab World through a new pair of glasses: Beirut’s underground. The CD focuses on a young generation that is tired of war, fed up with politics, sick of religious madness, and angry about Euro-American exoticism. It is keeping itself alive with electro beats, raw aggressive hip hop or in-your-face indie rock. Together these musicians show a new picture of this war- shaken city and region and show a different Beirut.

Beirut — Beyrouth — بـيـروت

(Source: tomsahero, via slouchingtowardsbeirut)

oldbeirut:

A.U.B. [1942]

arabstateofmind:

Beiruti street scene (Weygand street), 1958