One of my family’s few brushes with real fame was with Sabah, the great Lebanese singer and actress who has just died.  The connection was through one of my cousins, a writer, actor and theatre director, called Wasim.  Sabah may have been adored for her wonderful, passionate, keening voice, but she was also notorious for her many marriages.  And Wasim was one of her nine husbands — number four or five, I think. One of the most vivid memories from […]

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