Abeer Nehme releases “Habibati,” a new single and music video that unfolds as a poetic tribute to Beirut, shaped by love, longing, and emotional resilience. Produced by Universal Music MENA, the song is intimate in tone and elevated in language, anchored by a refrain that captures its emotional core: “You are Beirut… we love you. Can you hear us?”
In “Habibati,” Beirut is imagined as far more than a city. It becomes a living presence in memory and feeling a home, a story, a dream, and a name expansive enough to hold love, belonging, and ache all at once. From that intimate emotional space, the song emerges as a deeply personal meditation on attachment and endurance, painting Beirut as both fragile and eternal.
Written and composed by Wissam Keyrouz, “Habibati” is built around a poem in classical Arabic, shaped with lyrical restraint and emotional clarity. Its language is tender, elevated, and immediate, allowing Beirut to appear in its most soulful form: beloved, missed, and forever alive in the heart. Music Production by Sleiman Damien embraces that atmosphere with subtlety and grace, opening a transparent, flowing sonic space in which melody and text move together with unusual delicacy. The result is a carefully crafted work in which every musical element serves the emotional truth of the song while keeping the poetry at its center.
Visually, the accompanying music video, directed by Nadim Hobeika, offers a poetic portrait of Beirut, where traces of reality meet a dreamlike vision of a city in constant renewal. Pain lingers at the edge of the frame like a faint shadow, yet light remains the guiding force. Beirut appears as a city moving toward its most beautiful self, as though, in the words of the song, it were preparing to wear “a dress for the most beautiful of days.”
Through this fusion of image and music, “Habibati” becomes more than a song. It becomes a shared emotional space an invitation to hold on to light, and a reminder that Beirut, as Abeer Nehme sings it, is not simply a place but an unending promise, a story that survives, and a longing that does not fade: “You are the arrival, and you are the beginning… and in the end, you are what remains.”
With “Habibati,” Abeer Nehme adds another deeply expressive work to a career defined by refinement, emotional intelligence, and artistic sincerity. In this song, she holds Beirut close with tenderness, devotion, and a voice that turns music into a space of intimacy, reflection, and feeling. And in its closing call, “Habibati” opens its wings toward the city one more time: “My love, come… let us fly. Your wings are the universe. How could we not?”
