Marcel Khalife's conditions

Ahmet of Tunisia sent me this:  "Asad, at least this guy should stop singing about and pretending to be on the side of the wretched of the earth. He was invited to give a concert in Sidi Bouzid --the seedbed of Arab uprisings and a destitute region where you meet abject poverty wherever you go-- and the guy demands an exorbitant 50.000 dollars fee..Here is a link with the director of the local festival talking about that and other petty stuff like having his Coke as part of refreshments for his team in the embedded video at min. 9:18 (the fee).."