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released an album entitled "Ibhath Anni" (Look For Me) which featured a title song in classical form with lyrics by Ounsi with operatic string themed music composed by Abdo
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newspaper where he was responsible for the editing of non-political content and expanded the daily cultural column into a daily full page spread. In 1964, he founded the poetry magazine
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in 2006, where he became the newspapers leading columnist and editorial consultant. He wrote a weekly prose column and weekly commentary that ran in the
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which circulated weekly. In the first part of this period between 1964 and 1974, he worked in cooperation with Chawki Abi Shakra on
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Ounsi published numerous works of poetry and books between 1960 and 1994. He published six compilations of his poetry:
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into the Arabic language. These translated works were staged by the Beirut School of Modern
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When nobody used to ask me for my opinion on things, such as love and death, I willingly said the truth,
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He was the son of journalist and translator Louis El Hage, and of Marie Akl, from
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I have more remorse than achievements, and all that I have done I did without my knowledge.
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but then I stopped saying it as soon as there was someone to ask."
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