{"id":12556,"date":"2021-08-31T02:49:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-31T05:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=12556"},"modified":"2023-07-15T21:58:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T00:58:02","slug":"liban-libre-isnt-mr-guy-bearts-song-about-lebanon-moving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2021\/08\/31\/liban-libre-isnt-mr-guy-bearts-song-about-lebanon-moving\/","title":{"rendered":"“Liban-libre”: Isn’t Mr. Guy B\u00e9art’s song about Lebanon moving?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bambi heard this song on her Lebanese-American internet radio that plays French songs twice per day (for a whole hour). She cannot recall when precisely, today or was it yesterday? Anyhow, since then, it has been on her mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The song was written in 1989, a year before the end of a bloody 15-year civil war. Mr. Guy B\u00e9art visited Lebanon on a famous boat trip from France to show his solidarity with the civilians of his parents’ birth country. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. B\u00e9art’ song is entitled “Liban Libre<\/em>” [which means The Free Lebanon<\/em>]. It is against war and violence. It is for peace, love, and especially for freedom in Lebanon and for its children. It also mentions the hospitality of Lebanon to the persecuted populations and it pays tribute to all the Lebanese war victims, “Christians and Muslims<\/em>” (as per the song’s lyrics). Mr. B\u00e9art performed his song in both Paris and Beirut.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many French artists have supported Lebanon during its civil war (and beyond). Thus, Bambi has always thought that Mr. B\u00e9art was a talented French songwriter and singer. Today, she learned that he was Lebanese too (born in Egypt): https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Guy_B%C3%A9art<\/a>. His real name was “Guy B\u00e9hart-Hasson (originally spelled B\u00e9har-Hassan)<\/em>“. Indeed, his parents were “Jewish (of Shephardic Jewish assent<\/em>)”, according to Wikipedia<\/em>. As usual, it is moving to see the love of Lebanese people for their birth country (whomever they are or from wherever adoptive country they came from)!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. B\u00e9art left our world in 2015 at age 85 (may his memory be eternal). Bambi does not know if he heard about the synagogue of Beirut before his death. It was renovated post-war (+ re-fixed after the surrealistic port blast of August 4, 2020). It is called the Maghen Abraham <\/em>synagogue and it is beautiful, as you can see in 961<\/em> below. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Jewish community is one of the 18 different religious-based communities of Lebanon. Before 1948, there were over 20,000 Lebanese families from this community, it seems. Today and tragically, there are just about 30 Jewish families left, most likely living discreetly (https:\/\/www.nouvelobs.com\/rue89\/rue89-rue89-culture\/20091219.RUE4044\/les-juifs-du-liban-une-partie-oubliee-de-l-histoire-du-pays.html) <\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Beirut’s Last Synagogue Got Damaged In The Blast<\/a><\/blockquote>