Word: charbel
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Many of them gathered for a performance by Scrambled Eggs, four nerdy-cool guys in tight jeans who strangle their guitars and have onstage seizures as if this were Seattle in the 1990s. "I was locked in a cellar, and it became my shelter," sang front man Charbel Haber on See You in Beirut Whatever Happens, one of the band's original songs, which channels the postpunk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure but seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan, "It's Safer Underground," during last summer...
...performance by Scrambled Eggs, four nerdy-cool local guys in tight jeans and high-tops who strangle their guitars and have onstage seizures as if this were Manchester in the '80s or Seattle in the '90s. "I was locked in a cellar but it became my shelter," sang frontman Charbel Haber on "See You in Beirut Whatever Happens," one of the band's original songs that convincingly channels the post-punk era of Sonic Youth and the Cure, but which seems somehow appropriate in the current Beirut setting: a subterranean nightclub called Basement, which coined its slogan "It's Safer...
...Sitting down for a chat with four of Holy Spirit's senior students, you sense why these kids have been chosen as leaders: Mark is clever, Mounia is vivacious, Charbel is exuberant, Rebecca is contemplative. They're puzzled about the fuss others make about their local area. The Muslims who are their neighbors, are just that: people to greet, to share food with and to visit on special occasions. Charbel, from Punchbowl, hangs out with the local Muslim boys; sometimes they ask each other questions about their faiths. Those whose parents are immigrants from Lebanon have heard stories of conflict...
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