The memory of Abu Salim Al – Tabl … Lebanon must save him

Meet early on and by chance the great drum artist Abu Salim "Salah Tizani" in one of the Alhamra cafes, that means you're lucky that your morning brings you an interesting session where the story, heritage and important technical events that many others do not know. Especially for leading artists such as the Rahbani brothers, Ms. Fairouz, the Wehbe Philharmonic, Shosho, Sabah and other artists. A memory that contains the process of popular Lebanese art from theater to television. Stories and stories still live in his head without forgetting any details. To find out that you are in front of someone who has reached the age of 91 and that his memory is still fresh, he feels that you are in front of the memory of a young man of one year old. twenty years old. "The Name of God".

Abu Salim Al-Tabbal As we know very early, I met him at a morning meeting in a cafe on Al-Hamra Street. He is called Rossa. "This cafe, known as" equestrian show ", was the first in the 1950s." It was accompanied by the actor known as Shukri "Salah Sobh", the representative of the representative of "Bale" ", entered Friday after a quarter of an hour, and the moment of arrival attempted to kiss the hand of his teacher. The big Abu Salim, who refused to try to withdraw his hand to go to our neighborhood, thanked and said professor of Lebanese art and teacher of all and his preference for us and for the art.

Do not let a minute pbad and you listen to Abu Salim interrupt his speech, once they see him pbad in front of us to break him with peace and warmth and talk to him with love and admiration. Abu Selim is a friendly and close-knit person who makes you simply and without representation "with his heart and tongue" without increasing or caring for anyone. It tells the true art of the time when the artist was tired and "died" of way. One day when there was more than the scene in the country, the artist had to prove itself without the support of any advertising agency nor any proponga of a visual medium. He said that the artist touched people's hearts with his art, his charisma and his professional abilities.

The first question I asked was about the great genius Assi Rahbani and his great artistic work "Operetta Fakhreddine", where Abuslim worked with him. Asi Rahbani is a great artist, Abu Salim added. He was humble and respectful. Asi respected him and worked with him, consulted with representatives and listened to others' opinions and was not a dictator, as some of those who claim art these days.

Abu Salim Al-Tabbal "Problem Solver" or reformer for all "dumps of the artist Fahman". An artist who began his artistic career in the early 1950s and is now 91 years old. A small theater actor in Tripoli, north of Beirut. One of the most famous is that in 1952 he was invited by the late Lebanese artist Asaad Said to Budapest, capital of Hungary, to represent Lebanon in an international cultural and artistic festival, where they met the artist Egyptian Tahia Karioka. Upon their return from Budapest to Beirut by boat, upon arrival at the port, all trophies, medals and souvenirs they had won were withdrawn on the grounds that Budapest was a communist city and that it was prohibited from access to a Communist state.

The memory of Abu Salim is a great technical tank, rich in tales, stories and events It is not fair not to empty this tank, the memory of the march of the Lebanese art, a history that Lebanon must keep in its human memory.

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