” Stay ! If you leave, I’ll go get you.”sings Hassan Shakosh to the neighbor’s daughter in his 2019 hit, “Bent el-Geran” (“The Neighbor’s Daughter”). “You belong to me and I belong to you, we are inseparable. / If you leave me, I will hate my life. / I will drown my sorrows in alcohol and hashish. » While the song has garnered more than half a billion views on YouTube alone to date, its reference to alcohol and hashish has become the perfect detonator for an age-old culture war between the gatekeepers. .
