A campaign to silence this Lebanese band has galvanized the country's extreme Christian right

Hamed Sinno, then 22, was on stage for Mashrou' Leila's first major concert. The frontman of the genre-busting band danced in circles, hands in the air, and then looked intently at violinist Haig Papazian. Papazian began to play the first notes of the group's breakthrough hit, "Raqsit Leila" (the dance of Leila).

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