Ibrahim Maalouf: Last News

Elsa Keslassy International Correspondent Claude Lelouch, the Oscar-winning director of “A Man and a Woman,” is getting ready to direct “Finalement…,” his next film which he says will be a sort of sequel to his BAFTA-nominated film “Happy New Year” and “L’aventure, l’aventure.” The lighthearted movie will reteam Lelouch with Metropolitan FilmExport which is co-producing with Lelouch’s banner Les Films 13, and will distribute in France. Scored by popular French singer Ibrahim Maalouf, “Finalement…” will boast a large ensemble cast of French stars, including Kad Merad (“Baron Noir”), Elsa Zylberstein (“Simone”), Sandrine Bonnaire, Raphael Mezrahi, Michel Boujenah and Barbara Pravi.

Sharon Stone silently wept while reciting her own  lyrics in a music video for Our Flag by Ibrahim Maalouf released on Thursday on YouTube.The 64-year-old actress was shown in a cross-legged meditative pose in the third music video from Maalouf's fifteenth studio album Capacity To Love while delivering lyrics she wrote for the song.The video by French-Lebanese jazz trumpeter Maalouf, 41, opened with worldwide images of humanity, nature and destruction accompanied by mournful music. Music video: Sharon Stone silently wept while reciting her lyrics in a music video for Our Flag by Ibrahim Maalouf released on Thursday on YouTubeThe imagery included a busy traffic circle, rolling clouds, polar bears, forests, forest fires, pollution, Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and smiling children before ending with clips from 2015 of two-year-old Syrian boy Alan Kurdi dead on the beach after drowning amid the European refugee crisis.Stone was then shown in a black outfit sitting in a chair silently as she spoke her lyrics in a voice-over accompanied by Maalouf's music.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorSinger Elissa, soprano Hiba Tawaji, composer Oussama Rahbani, trumpetist Ibrahim Maalouf and more than 50 musicians performed at the “Night of Hope” at Lebanon’s Forum de Beirut on Sunday night in the largest concert to be held in the country’s capital since the devastating explosion in August of 2020 that killed more than 200 people, left an estimated 300,000 homeless and caused more than $15 billion in damage. The Forum de Beirut was also destroyed by the blast, but has been rebuilt.The concert paid tribute to the families of the explosion’s victims in a brief video, and patriotic songs were performed as part of a broader call to unite the country, which has seen its economy devasted in recent years.