In downtown Beirut - one of the key centres of the Arab music industry - Habib Battah, editor of the Middle East Broadcasting Journal, is keen to explain how a new breed of pop superstars like Nancy Ajram and Haifa Wehbe is providing the soundtrack for tens of millions of young people across the Arab world.
"If you look at 10, 20 years ago, the Middle East was one of those few places where parents and children enjoyed the same music - and today there is that generation gap that is forming for the first time in the Middle East," he says....
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