Ahl Al Esheg (song)

"Ahl Al Esheg";(English: People of Passion) is the fourth video clip and sixth single by the Lebanese singer Diana Haddad it was released in January,1997 when the singer was still only 20 years old.It was also her 2nd released song in the Levantine Bedawi dialect (a trend she would follow until the early 2000s).

Location & nostalgia

The video is set in the ancient Lebanese port town of Byblos or commonly known as Jbeil among Lebanese. It begins from the end as Diana Haddad is putting a message in a bottle and throwing into the ocean. Which was once historical a trading route for the Phoenicians. It is the oldest continuous port in the world. The music video was directed by her husband Suhail Al Abdoul.

The city was also once somewhere Diana spent some of her childhood and youth when her family lived in Lebanon in the 1970s. At the end of the video there is even a caption of a baby photo of Diana as a much older Diana looks onto the ocean as the sun begins to set.

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