Fayrouz’s Likes and dislikes
Likes:
Songs:
Ya dirati of Asmahan
Ya zahratan fi khayali of Fareed Elatrash
Places:
Lebanon: “My greatest love”.
Things:
Dolls and stuffed animals: as witnessed by a personal friend of hers (published in Alhawadeth in 1988) who found Fayrouz’s bed occupied by a collection of stuffed animals (Giraffe, cat, mouse, elephant, Mickey Mouse and a clown)
Dislikes:
Songs:
“Amara ya amara” as reported by Ziad.
“Mish Kayen hayk tkoon” as proved by her refusal to sing it in public appearances.
Things:
The telephone: “The telephone is a big problem. Many people have nothing better to do. I broke it twice, and no one bothered to change the number for me” (from an interview published in Alshabaka in 1990).
Arithmetics: She still doesn’t know the multiplication table by heart (Fayrouz, Almutriba walmishwar by Riadh Jarkas).
Press interviews: “I rarely give interviews to the press because you can not always trust the one you are talking with.