0:00 Intro

3:34 What keeps you here?

10:30 Appreciation for rock music

19:44 Patience

41:25 Democratization

1:00:38 Benefit

1:14:33 Independence

1:34:38 Years to come

We're with Rabih Salloum for Episode 283 of The Beirut Banyan.

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https://youtu.be/ZFr1aUPNAhI

We discuss his current solo project Grave Jones, his latest single 'Heaven Only Knows' and earlier music with Slutterhouse.

Our conversation includes an appreciation for rock music, Beirut as a backdrop for storytelling and the political evolution we both experienced from 2005 onwards.

We also talk about patience lost through social media, an upbringing that allowed for imagination and creativity and why a sense of anger overtakes our emotions online.

Rabih Salloum is a singer, songwriter and philosophy instructor at AUB.

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Music by Marc Codsi. Animation & illustration by Sana Chaaban.