Lebanese singer and underground hero Zeid Hamdan is coming to the Netherlands. Last summer Zeid caused some waves when he was arrested by Lebanese authorities  for a song he posted online more than a year ago. It seemed as Lebanon, a country ‘escaping’ many of the Arab Spring unrest, wanted to make up. As you can see in this beautiful timeline of the Guardian Lebanon saw none of the unrest surrounding countries had to face. But of course, they had more than their share over the last decades. In the song General Suleiman is kindly asked to step down. Well, apparently he wasn’t planning on doing so.

Zeid Hamdan will be performing in  Amsterdam where cultural centre de Balie is  hosting a great weekend programm on the Art of Revolution II. Check here for his performance. And here for some other parts of the programm.

De Balie’s website announces the weekend as follows: The second weekend of December De Balie presents in cooperation with Dancing on the Edge a versatile festival with cutting edge, contemporary art and culture from the Middle East. Curator Neil van der Linden also presents a great programm of clips and storytelling on the saturday afternoon. Don’t miss out on this festval…