Musician Marcel Khalifah is very talented and original in his compositions. His latest works are even more impressive than his earlier more popular work: Tasbahun `Ala Watan is one of the best pieces of Arabic music in recent memory, I think. . I just wish that he would not talk; he annoys me when he does. He sounds so contrived and so affected; there are even traces of the old Khalid Bakdash in his discourse.