{"id":34545,"date":"2026-07-04T00:12:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=34545"},"modified":"2026-07-04T00:12:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-04T03:12:28","slug":"happy-4th-of-july-and-thanks-to-singer-zaki-nassif-for-having-existed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2026\/07\/04\/happy-4th-of-july-and-thanks-to-singer-zaki-nassif-for-having-existed\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy 4th of July and thanks to singer Zaki Nassif for having existed!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"611\" height=\"321\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BambiHappyFourthofJuly.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BambiHappyFourthofJuly.jpg 611w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/BambiHappyFourthofJuly-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>To Bambi&#8217;s relatives, friends, and readers who are celebrating the Independence Day: Happy 4th of July!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today happens to also be the birthday of the late and great Mr. Zaki Nassif (1916-2004), described on the <em>American University of Beirut<\/em> (AUB)\u2019s website (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3fQ7ff1\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3fQ7ff1<\/a>) as &#8220;<em>the founder of a new Lebanese Arabic school of compositions, unique in a genre that combines words, music, orchestration and dance<\/em>\u201c. His impressive musical heritage includes 1,100 songs as well as pieces of music (<a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3fQ7ff1\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3fQ7ff1<\/a>). May his memory be eternal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Long live music, the summer season, and people&#8217;s joyful celebrations everywhere, especially across the United States of America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Joe Dassin-L &#039;Am\u00e9rique-paroles\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jmW0jQHgot8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"America, America\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/If8QUhw0qXk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"A Special Symphonic Tribute to Zaki Nassif\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bQI3f176WwY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"National Arab Orchestra - Frashay w Zahra \/ \u0641\u0631\u0627\u0634\u0629 \u0648\u0632\u0647\u0631\u0629 - Abeer Nehme \/ \u0639\u0628\u064a\u0631 \u0646\u0639\u0645\u0629\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g-ZwPcVuYb0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Carla Chamoun \u2013 \u0639\u0627\u0634\u0642\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0648\u0631\u062f (Ya &#039;Achikat al-Wardi) | Live at Casino du Liban\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9l_Zq0XuLX4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/heart.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31085\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/heart.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/heart-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To Bambi&#8217;s relatives, friends, and readers who are celebrating the Independence Day: Happy 4th of July! Today happens to also be the birthday of the late and great Mr. Zaki Nassif (1916-2004), described on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sackvillesmemorialpark"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34548,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34545\/revisions\/34548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}