Habr sends messages through music

Leftists enjoyed a night of music to the tunes of a famous singer.

Khaled Habr, long-known for his "committed song," held a concert at the American University of Beirut. The concert was attended by some 800 students, faculty and Khaled's fans on top of them was composer Ziad Rahbani.

The concert that was held at the Green Oval drew extensive applaud especially when Khaled sang his new released Aktar Min Aya Zaman.

The song addresses the Lebanese Communist Party urging it to put itself together and show some action facing the rise of all the odd circumstances that necesitates its presence.

One of the concert's main sponsor, to the misfortune of some boycott activists, was Nescafe.

A heated debate during theweek that preceded organization and prior to the concert broke out.

While the pro-boycott team argued that Nestle had vast investments in Israel and therefore the concert should be boycotted accordingly, the second team said that the mere fact that Nestle sponsored Khaled Habr was enough to suspend the boycott at least for a night.

The second team also argued that the boycott team's strategy was short-sighted and needed revision. They said that Nestle invested good money in Arab countries such as Lebanon and Syria.

The debate was not concluded by the end of the concert and dragged on for several weeks to come causing serious rifts among the leftist activists rank and file, "a typical leftist behavior," according to one of the concert's attendants.

For his part, Khaled Habr who has been equidistant from the various, sometimes rival, leftist groups, did not comment on the Nescafe debate.

Sources close to Khaled said that he has a set of new songs that he intends to promote in a few concerts to come.

These sources said that Habr would not record these songs in a studio, but rather through out his concerts.