I like listening to Marcel Khalifah sing; I like listening to him play the `ud. I like his CD tasbahun `ala Watan. But I can't stand it when Marcel Khalifah talks. He is so annoying: he was annoying when he spoke the Stanlinist line, and he is more annoying talking the peace line now. And he sings beautiful Arabic (the words of Arab poets) and yet he thinks that he writes beautiful Arabic, which he does not.